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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Solar Cup

Solar Cup is a seven-month program that begins in the fall, in which high school teams totaling about 800 students build and race solar-powered boats at Lake Skinner, in Temecula Valley, learning about conservation of natural resources, electrical and mechanical engineering.... read more.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Arduino Theme Songs

The Arduino library came with many themes songs built in. I will post a video soon of them all.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Attempt of Motor Control

The chassis and gear box belonged to an old RC car that didn't work. Right now it has no input devices and can only run a simple forward backward, left right program.

TV BE GONE

So this device turns off all TV's around it. It works great! Ive managed to turn a lot of different TV's off and i haven't encountered one i cant.  This is called a TV B Gone. There is a tutorial in adafruit's website: http://www.ladyada.net/make/tvbgone/solder.html

Though they do sell a kit, I suggest buying the pcb and the IC only and using your own components if you have them. But if you don't have these parts, I think that the kit is the best way to go.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Motor Control with a SN754410NE

Thanks to the people at ArduinoFun, http://arduinofun.com/blog/2009/10/25/duel-motor-driver/, I was able to make the motor driver work. Here are a few pictures.




Thursday, April 1, 2010

IR Camera Control

I used the C code on http://www.bemasher.net/archives/114 to trigger my Nikon camera remotely from my computer. I could work on this code to make something cool. Thank BeMasher!

Friday, March 26, 2010

New 4 Note Laser Harp


This is a new prototype of my laser harp. I let the beams shine through a colloid.