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A brief history of my Zipit Z2
For a while now I have been playing with the idea of building my version of the perfect alarm clock. My original ideas involved the Arduino and the Arduino Ethernet Shield. This all changed when I was introduced to the … Continue reading
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A Temperature Sensor with Arduino
After getting the Arduino Uno for Christmas last year, I set about doing what every geek does after getting bored of the usual blinky blinky pin 13 stuff, and started thinking about what I could do with it that was … Continue reading
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Hexy: Binary to Hex Array Converter.
Just after the second hack night, Tim was temporarily staying at my house for a while, and one evening just happened to be working on some embedded PIC stuff. He was writing a system to serve an image over a … Continue reading
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Getting Faster USB Charging from an In Car Charger
The other day I was driving to work with my brand new Google Nexus S Android phone on the dashboard, as usual. A new version of Google Maps had just come out, and coupled with the fact that I had just … Continue reading
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Interfacing an HD44780 LCD Screen – The Beginnings of the Car Audio System
Following my previous post Programming the Arduino in Pure C, I have had time over the Xmas holdiays to do some more experimentation. Setting the Scene First lets look at what I am aiming to do. I hate taking CDs … Continue reading
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Programming the Arduino in Pure C.
For hack #2, I started looking at how I could program an Arduino; an affordable hobby development board which uses an Atmega AVR microcontroller. More information here. We add a twist by not using the Arduino IDE and instead using … Continue reading
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LCD Now Playing Screen
For Hack Night #2, I wanted to create a “Now Playing” LCD display to integrate with the lpHack music server that we worked on at Hack Night #1. The resulting project is another real Can’t Hack team effort as it … Continue reading
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Webcam Infrared LED Hack
At the Can’t Hack, Won’t Hack nights so far, we have had a good number of successful hacks, most of which are documented on this blog. At Hack Night #2 however, we had one not quite so successful hack – … Continue reading
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Plumbing – Morse Code 1
Plumbing is a runtime system and libraries for the Arduino that lets you write concurrent application using the Occam programing language. This is my first hack using plumbing, it is a Morse Code encoder, that blinks the built in LED … Continue reading
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