Living with Robots featuring ASIMO by Honda.

I have talked about the dream the impossible documentary series by Honda, the latest one is really cool which featuring the ASIMO:)

Check it out:

EZ-430 Chronos Wireless Watch controlled Door Entry System.

I have been waiting for cool projects using the TI EZ-430 wireless watch, and it comes up one today! You can unlock the door wirelessly by just taping the watch screen with a sequence. The sequence is then detected by the internal accelerometer and translated to a door lock pattern. If it is correct, it would unlock the door:)

Hard to say how cool is it, Lets see the demo! Cool Project, Ziyan!



Details of implementation: https://ziyan.info/2010/01/secure-wireless-door-lock/

Japanese Dancing Robot Doll.

A cute doll with the humanoid body. It is awesome!

TI eZ430 Chronos Watch get reviewed.

Now you can order @ TI store for $49.

Programming AVR tiny2313 with STK500.

I used AVR tiny13 for most of my small projects, now I am going to move on with tiny2313 because of more IOs available and also with UART support.

Kaasxxx wrote about programming AVR tiny13 with STK500, so I decide to write my small introduction on programming tiny2313.

Step 1. Connect the 6-wire ISP cable between ISP6PIN and SPROG3.



Step 2. Put the tiny2313 on the Socket SCKT3300D3.



I also connected pin PB0 to pin LED0 (as you see the green/yellow cable) to test my led blink test program on tiny2313.

I prepared for a led blink sample code with Makefile (avr-gcc and avrdude targeted for tiny2313), you should modify the download serial port name in the Makefile for your machine. You can download here: avr_tiny2313_led.tar.gz

Hope you found useful;)

AVR development on Ubuntu Linux.

I used Mac OS X for all my AVR developments so far.I got my netbook running Ubuntu and I want to use it for AVR developement recently. It is easier to get all the tools installed as I thought. The following commands do the magic:

sudo apt-get install gcc-avr
sudo apt-get install avr-libc
sudo apt-get install avrdude

Worked like a charm:)

L298 Motor Controller

L298 is a very famous H-Bridge IC for controlling DC/Stepper motors. It is essential for making wheel robots. If you plan to build a robot in year 2010, you should check this cool tutorial by PyroElectro. It teaches you all the important things to know about this motor controller and show you some samples codes.


Tutorial here: http://www.pyroelectro.com/tutorials/l298_control/index.html