A couple months ago I came across two great instructables. The first was the Garduino, an arduino controlled garden to help you grow plants at home. The second was the Tweet-a-Watt, a project that teaches you how to monitor your home power usage using Xbees and Twitter. I read about both these projects here at Instructables and […]
Garduino Upgrade, Now with more Twitter! Using Atmega Read More »
MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) Accelerometers are in widespread use as tilt-sensors in mobile phones and cameras. Simple accelerometers are available both as ic-chip’s and cheap development pcb-boards. Wireless chips are also affordable and available in assembled circuits, with matched antenna-network and decoupling-caps onboard. Hook both wireless board and accelerometer up to a microcontroller via serial interface
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If you have a blog or website and want to make a physical device to display the number of visitors, this project might be interesting to you. It describes about a similar device that can be directly connected to the internet via router and counts the visitors of your website. The number of visitors is
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WiFi has become an integral part of our life and daily billions of people use WiFi as a method to access the internet. But the range of WiFi is limited, unlike a cellular connection. A normal WiFi router usually has a range of about a 100m in clear sight and about 20m to 50m without clear
Measure Your WiFi Signal Strength Using Particle Photon Using Atmega Read More »
I. Introduction Today, the rising cost of energy and social trend of “going green” has put increasing pressure on commercial property owners to improve the efficiency of their investments. There is good reason for this, too. In the State of California, office buildings represent the single largest user of energy in the commercial sector (Efficiency
Protect your secret hideout from intruders with a lock that will only open when it hears the secret knock. This started out as a bit of a joke project, but turned out to be surprisingly accurate at judging knocks. If the precision is turned all the way up it can even detect people apart, even if
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Overview The circuit shown in Figure 1 is capable of driving an LED array requiring up to several amps with a burst of flashes before coming on until power is removed. It is intended to be used as an auxiliary warning light driver. The initial burst of flashes is meant to enhance visual detection of
Attention-Getting Auxiliary Warning Light Flasher/Driver Using Atmega Read More »
An ATtiny12 controller as a timer and some switching circuitry turns the doorbell off for 10 hours at the same time each day. The string of resistors across the top of the board are series connected to make a 728 Ohm 2 watt resistor. The slide switch is used to switch the circuit between the
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Introduction and Motivations: For our final project, we designed and built (and exhaustively tested) an RFID-based proximity security system for use with Cornell Identification cards, which have been RFID-embedded since fall of 2003. The idea for this project was sort of spawned from our general interest in RFID technologies and the near-simultaneous occurance of Lab
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Overview: Our security system is a stand alone device that allows access to registered users identified by their magnetic cards.(For this project, “access” is represented by a lit LED, showing how the system could be used to control an external locking mechanism.)The system includes features such as: Multiple accounts, including Administrator accounts (which can create,
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