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Because I have not tested all electronic circuits mentioned on this pages, I cannot attest to their accuracy; therefore, I do not provide a warranty of any kind and cannot be held responsible in any manner.
ATmega
AVR synth
24. October 2008 - 21:31 — adminA monophonic synthesizer based on an Atmel AVR microcontroller.
Upgrade the Arduino with bigger ATMega
7. October 2008 - 12:59 — adminRunning out of space in your big Arduino project? Good news! Finally you can buy the latest improvement to the ATmega8 line of chips: the ATmega328!
Open-source AVL
17. September 2008 - 22:07 — adminAVL stands for Automatic Vehicle Location, which is accomplished by means of a tracking GPS and M2M modules. Actually a small AVL can be used to track any objects, including kids and pets.
Apple II emulator
13. September 2008 - 23:05 — adminThis project attempted to reconstruct a functional Apple II emulated on Atmel ATmega32 processors. Due to time constraints, a fully functional Apple II was not produced; however, a working emulated 6502 processor, memory subsystem, and partial GPU was produced.
Metaboard for AVR
11. August 2008 - 23:16 — adminMetaboard is a USB based prototyping board for Atmel's AVR microcontrollers. It is designed to be (mostly) compatible with Arduino. Its entire design (hardware and firmware) is Open Source.
PFAVR - FORTH for AVR microcontroller
8. August 2008 - 13:39 — adminPFAVR is a 16-bit implementation of the Forth programming language for Atmel AVR microcontrollers. 13Kwords of FLASH and 32Kbytes of external RAM are required, thus the ATmega64 and ATmega128 are really the only devices supported as of this writing.
Direct connecting: AVR to USB, no HW converters
5. July 2008 - 12:08 — adminSome techniques to connect AVR-based device to USB without a specialized HW, just only in the SW way.
IR and ultrasonic scanner
21. May 2008 - 11:41 — adminThis project is a short range, infrared and ultrasonic scanner that uses a standard hobby servo to move the sensors and a color LCD screen to display the information from the sensors.
Homebuilt MP3 Player with STA013
10. May 2008 - 10:08 — adminIf you’re looking for a build-it-yourself, standalone, USB harddrive based MP3 player, this may be of interest to you.
How to begin with robots
9. May 2008 - 12:50 — adminSimple ready-to-use robotic developer kit from the makers of Roomba vacuum cleaner.