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Revision as of 21:51, 21 August 2013

JustInTime Project Pages

You'll find some descriptions of our electronics projects, which mostly involve AVR microcontrollers.

Featured

Straddling header thumbnail.jpg To celebrate the release of Vinnies student-proof, straddling programming header, we've finally gotten around to documenting the programming headers we use for AVR breadboard programming!
Ws2811 thumbnail.jpg Want to know how to drive a WS2811 led string from an 8 Mhz AVR? This page has the code and explains it. Works for Arduino too...
Transceiver433 cropped.jpg Cheap 433Mhz receivers and transmitters are ideal to communicate with your microcontroller, but can also be used to control cheap RF-controlled switches. If you've got $3, an ebay account and a soldering iron, you can now communicate with your switches through a USB port.

Projects

Here are some finished, or work in progress activities:

Project Page status Project status
Sending location information from an Android phone to a Nikon camera started ongoing
WS2811 "Water torture" started finished
Driving the WS2811 at 800 kHz with an 8 MHz AVR finished ongoing
4x4x4 Led Cube - AVR doing Bit Angle Modulation / Single PCB base started finished
Cheapest ever 433 Mhz transceiver for PCs complete finished
Roland FD-8 Issues: Hall Sensor Modification complete finished
Antique Clock Start Stop Automation complete finished
Knight Rider walking led experiments
demonstrating pwm, either through SX Virtual Peripherals or inline and How to drive many leds with a few io-pins.
basic finished
Wireless LCD display rudimentary finished
Driving a shift register led display driver. rudimentary finished
Driving 4 seven segment led displays not started finished
'Very Limited Space' Midi Sustain Pedal. not started finished
Fake Cricket. complete finished
Reading Rotary Encoders complete finished (component)
Oven temperature controller in progress in progress (2012)
RGB Light Show (Wired/Wireless) started finished
Digital Analogue Clock with Traffic Light alarm not started finished
Diffusing Leds the Fast Way complete finished

Some older software projects:

Programming AVRs

You might want to know how to run avrdude from eclipse under linux.

Atmel has released a 4K version of the well-known Attiny2313, called the Attiny4313. It is fully (pin) compatible, with the only difference that it has double memory. The Attiny4313 is not yet recognized by Avrdude, so we have modified the Avrdude config file to be able to program it. This link contains the Attiny4313 section that should be added to your config.

Our set up

Nowadays, we prefer to do our stuff in SMT because it avoids the bore of drilling holes. And you can make use of cheap SMT resistor and capacitor assortments so you'll always have the right values available. Working in SMT requires making PCBs. We use the toner transfer method. One tip: the ironing sticks much better if the paper is wet. And one other tip: etching in CupricChloride works very well and you never run out of etchant!

ToDo List

Here are some projects on our to do list:

  • CC2500 Wireless System, on hold while we're working on the
  • Nordic NRF24 wireless system
  • AVR DAC Audio playback
  • Midi Chord generator
  • Solarpower Chicken Lighting System
  • PIC-based MidiFilePlayer
  • Drumcomputer
  • DCC Train control system
  • simple GPS logger based on rs232 receiver
  • sunrise alarm clock

Items that were on this list, but are finished now (without write-up)

  • 100Mhz SX based Frequency Counter (done)
  • AVR Bootloader System (done)