Archive for May, 2010

Energy Harvester Evaluation Kit…

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

This is great. A Solar Energy Harvester Evaluation Kit. With a EnerChip CBC5300. From www.cymbet.com Have to do some testing with other sources of energy like Peltier and small dc-motors as a generator. But the kit is running right out of the box. Will connect this module to an AVR. Kits comes with a CD with datasheets of a whole bunch of modules.

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9DOF Razor iMU

Monday, May 24th, 2010

This is great.

This is the 9DOF Razor IMU.

A PCB from Sparkfun with some sensors on it. Pitch, Roll, compass. With a Python program it is possible to see all movements of this PCB. It has a Atmega328p on it with an Arduino bootloader.

Check also YouTube

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Arduino-code for Mega LCD…

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Arduino-code.

Buttons on 54, 55 and 56.

LCD-display on 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 and 13.

Pull-ups on the buttons.

Working fine.

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Bascom-AVR program

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Here the Bascom-AVR code for the Arduino Mega LCD/Button-shield.
To program the device from within Bascom-AVR, choose as programmer an external programmer
Program: C:\avrdude.exe

Parameter: -v -F -Cc:\avrdude.conf -p m1280 -P com3 -c STK500v1 -b 57600 -Uflash:w:{FILE}:a

Have put the program and the conf-file of AVRDUDE in the root of my harddisk.

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Arduino Mega LCD shield

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

This is a Arduino Mega LCD Shield.
16 x 2 LCD with backlight.
With three buttons and a reset.

LiquidCrystal lcd(4, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13);

To drive it in Arduino.

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Arduino and GP2D12

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

This is the DFRduino on a development board with a GP2D12 distance sensor. Working very well. To check if the InfraRed is working this might be a tip, use the camera on your cellphone.

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