In my previous post, I described a project that I’ve been (very slowly) working on. One of the major aspects of the project was that it would be cross-platform and use the CMake build system – both of which are new to me in this project. One obstacle that I ran into was that I […]
This project is my personal rendition of the popular persistence of vision (POV) hard drive clock design. I had seen a few of these online before, and decided that it would be a fun project to try to build one myself. If you haven’t encountered one of these before, the basic idea is that you […]
This is a really fun project that I made as an apartment decoration in college. An LED matrix display is used to display a realtime visualization of the frequency spectrum of an incoming audio signal. Left and right channel data are displayed on the appropriate half of the display, with low frequencies being represented at […]
This project was just a fun little thing to try to combine my interests in music with my interests in electronics. The project uses a 40×2 character LCD, some pushbuttons, and a MIDI connector to create a four track step sequencer to generate drum beats on a MIDI instrument. The sequences are a fixed 32 […]
Ever since I had started my collegiate education, I had been interested in USB. It struck me as something that should be more accessible, as the antiquated serial and parallel ports have quickly gone the way of the dodo. USB offers a myriad of desirable features, including high communication speeds, plug-and-play capabilities, and a compact […]
This project is probably my first “real” project involving microcontrollers (I had not worked with microcontrollers prior to college). By “real”, all that I actually mean is that I took the time to solder it. Previously, my only microcontroller experience was breadboarding some blinking lights and or playing around with individual peripherals (UART, timer, etc.) […]