This was actually a really fun project that Jon and I did for our Interfacing Digital Electronics course. The objective was to use an Optek OPB745 reflective object sensor and a Freescale HCS12 microcontroller to read Morse code from printed paper. The project was very open-ended, and it was up to each team to decide […]
Meter Maven is the name given to our project for our senior projects course. This project actually has its own website, so I won’t bother going into too much detail here. You should definitely check out the website, though, as it’s filled with all sorts of technical information and additional media. Overview The Meter […]
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 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.) […]