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Cheap light-based PC to microcontroller communication

We’ve seen some pretty cool projects that use blinking lights on a PC monitor to transfer data to a microcontroller. We did a little research, and here are some example projects we’ve found. This...

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FTDI releases the FT311D USB host IC which provides easy communication with...

  FTDI released the FT311D USB host IC for easy communication with Android devices. It features 7 GPIOs, one I2C peripheral, one UART, one SPI, and 4 PWM peripherals. The device acts as a USB host to...

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Amazing new touchscreen interface

Fujitsu Laboratories: Touchscreen interface for seamless data transfer between the real and virtual worlds This new gadget comes directly from Fujitsu Laboratories. They developed what seems to be the...

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MSP430 optical mouse chip interface – phase 1

JWoodrell over at the 430h forum shares his experience interfacing an optical mouse IC (AVAGO ADNS-2051) to an MSP430G2553: My current plan is to gut optical mice for their sensor + lense i can get...

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Interfacing the ADS8328 to an MSP430

juani_c has written an article detailing how to interface the ADS8328 to an MSP430: The ADS8328 is a high-speed, low power, successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC)...

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Insomni’hack CTF 2014: Bus Pirate used as a serial interface to communicate...

Bus Pirate was used to communicate to a MSP430 microcontroller  at Insomni’hack CTF2014 challenge.  q3k of DragonSector writes: The devboard is obviously a Texas Instruments MSP430 launchpad. Attached...

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A Haskell interface to the Bus Pirate binary interface

Ben Gamari writes, “This package provides a simple, type-safe interface for working with the Bus Pirate’s binary interface.”   Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping....

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USB to RS485

Marko Pavlin has published a new build: Testing of sensors with RS485 using PC without proper interface is not possible. Since RS232 interfaces are very rare, the interface should be hooked to USB....

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ATtiny based bidirectional motor control using L293D

Rahul over at Xanthium has posted a tutorial on interfacing ATtiny with L293D: In this tutorial we will learn to interface L293D with ATMEL ATtiny microcontroller and control them bidirectionally.The...

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Tiny, isolated USB to Xcvr interface (PTT, Audio, CAT, …)

Mare writes: I will describe here the USB interface between the radio station and the computer which I recently developed and tested. This post is a continuation of the first part, where I described a...

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