Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE6 Testing

As I showed in my previous post ,I’m going to test my CoreEP4CE6 board. It is based on Altera Cyclone IV FPGA (EP4CE6E22C8N) . I got my Al...

Desoldering Surface Mount Devices (SMD)–The hard way

In my previous post, I used some scavenged parts from an old mother board. These old circuit boards are gold mines as they got many reusabl...

Building Real Time Clock (RTC) module based on DS1307 for Arduino

In this post I’m going to build a Real Time Clock (RTC) module based on popular DS1307 RTC chip for using with Arduino or any other micro-co...

Connecting Arduino Pro (3.3V/8Mhz) to TV

In this post I’m going to connect my home made  Arduino Pro clone to the television using composite input on the TV. I found a good library...

Video Blog Episode #1 : Unboxing Altera Cyclone IV Development board & module based implementation

In this Incredible DIY video blog episode, I'm unboxing my new FPGA development board which I got from Waveshare Electronics called Cor...

Testing a Digital Compass module based on MMC2120MG magnetic sensor

Here I’m going to show you how to use a digital compass for you robot project. This can be easily used to obtain the heading of the robot an...

Building a SD Card Temperature logger (ATMEGA328 + SDCARD + LM35)

As we built an Arduino powered web server in previous post, let’s build a temperature logger using a SD card this time. I build this becaus...

Arduino based Webserver (ATMEGA328 + ENC28j60)

Updated on 09-01-2017 to correct issue with MAC address: (Identifed by Julien as per in the comment section) Replaced : static byte mymac[...

Building an Arduino Pro / Arduino UNO (with TechDuino)

I wanted to build a 3.3V microcontroller development system for a long time. This is because most newer sensors and other  devices are worki...

Modifying a cheap CP2102 USB to UART board to get a DTR pin (for Arduino programming)

I got this CP2102 USB to UART board from ebay recently as showed in my previous post . I got this mostly for Arduino progeamming using the A...

USB to UART Convertors (PL2303 & CP2102)

If you are working with any UART stuff with micro controllers,you may have to debug them or send/receive data with a PC. In good old days,al...