Posted on 24 Jul 2008
The Balloon Project is an open Hardware development boards.It has produced Balloon3, a high-performance ARM board designed for use by OEMs and Higher education. Spec is PXA270 (583Mhz), FPGA or CPLD, 1GB flash, 784MB RAM, USB (master, slave, OTG), CF slot, expansion bus, 16-bit bus, I2C, LCD, serial, audio. Very low power in CPLD confiuguration. Small, light. Various add-on boards: VGA LCD driver, robot motor driver+A/D, digital IO. Released under the Balloon Open Hardware license, which allows anyone to manufacture and for people to make derivatives. The expansion bus allows balloon to be used as the computing component for various special-purpose devices.[more]
Posted on 18 Jul 2008
The PIC Elmer 160 Project Board is a multi-function PIC16F84A-based project board that serves as the basis for the experiments being conducted by John McDonough, WB8RCR in the online PIC Elmer 160 course. The course material is geared around use of common I/O components pushbuttons, LEDs, LCD display, rotary encoder and speaker and the experiments are designed to take the student through a step-by-step creation of software programs that beep, display and otherwise interact with the user in an instructional manner.[more]
Posted on 15 Jul 2008
Olivier writes:
The idea of this project came from my youngest son. He was dreaming of a small tool able to write symbols or pictures on a screen. As a graphic LCD (even bought at Crownhill 
) was too expensive (or too easy??), the solution adopted was to pilot a matrix of Leds. This way, with only some cheap transistors, common red Leds, and a 16F628 , the dream could become reality.
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Posted on 13 Jul 2008
With this digital DCF77 clock with LCD and gong,you always get the right time and date.This project make use of a PIC16F628(A) and a DCF77 receiver.The DCF77 is a longwave time signal and standard-frequency radio station. Its primary and backup transmitter are located in Mainflingen, about 25 km south-east of Frankfurt, Germany. It is operated by T-Systems Media Broadcast, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, on behalf of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany’s national physics laboratory. DCF77 has been in service as a standard-frequency station since 1959; date and time information was added in 1973.[more]
Posted on 13 Jul 2008
This project is an expansion from another project .On the one side you can read the RC5, RC5X and RC6 codes from remote controls on a LCD and on the other hand you can send all thinkable RC5, RC5X and RC6 codes to a device.Besides is for this project a PCB layout drawed to make it still more easier for you.The circuit based on PIC16F628A.[more]
