µ[micro]electronics info

The portable Video Frame Grabber records high-resolution camcorder frame grabs on a small flash memory card. The LM3S811-based device can grab frames from DVDs without connecting to a PC. The SD card, which stores frame grabs as BMPs, can be accessed with any SD card host.

The MAX3420 is a USB peripheral controller chip with an SPI bus. How to easily make use of the device in your projects?

EEG: An instrument that measures electrical potentials on the scalp and generates a record of the electrical activity of the brain. Also called encephalograph. Wanna to build your own EEG?

This project combines a GPS receiver module, a Microchip PIC microcontroller and a Secure Digital memory card to make a GPS data logger.

This project is a Microchip PIC microcontroller with an RS232 serial interface on one side and an PS/2 (keyboard or mouse) interface on the other. The PS/2 interface uses bit-banging on a 12F683 device.

Remember the old good times with all these amazing computers like ZXS, C64, BBC etc.? Get 8-bit nostalgia now!

This AVR programmer consists of an ATMega48 or an ATMega8 and a couple of passive components. The programmer uses a firmware-only USB driver, no special USB controller is needed.

Some ARM projects from the Circuit Cellar's contest.

A monophonic synthesizer based on an Atmel AVR microcontroller.

DS brut is an open source hardware prototyping platform for the Nintendo DS