Genius SP-HF 2000X Speakers – Eliminate power supply hum

Let me tell you a story about my Genius 2000X Speakers.
I am very satisfied with the tone of these speakers. Only one thing which disturbing is a soft hum. I use it with a laptop and when I go to bed the computer is delayed to shutdown but the speakers are on all night. If the shutdown is earlier as I would fall asleep then I hear the hum from the speakers. So I decided to eliminate somehow. I had some failed try but finally succeeded. Read more ›

IR remote switch

Hi,

Today I will show you, what is in my 8 channel remote switch system. It is for to control (switch on/off) electronic devices, which normally haven’t got any IR reciever on them.

The very first idea was just to catch some IR transmission, which comes from a remote controller (of a TV, or an old video player, etc.) with an AVR. I used TSOP31233 to recieve the raw data. As I couldn’t find any general description about IR transmission protocols or anything like this, I had several unsuccesful try. But finnaly I found out a quite usable algorithm to identify the difference or the conformity between two buttons on a controller. Some minutes after this, I had the plan . Read more ›

Mood lamp

Hello World!

In this post, I will show you my RGB LED powered mood lamp. Now for first, let’s see the result:

It was placed into a cheap lamp enclosure from IKEA. I took out the original 230V socket, and placed my panel in.

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Digital clock

Hi everybody,

Today I will show you, how I built my digital clock. Many years ago, when I didn’t know what the microcontroller is, and in the secondary school we learned about TTL logics, I couldn’t imagine how to build, for example a digital clock. Now I already have one

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Bicolor led matrix with atmega8

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Today I’m going to show you, how could I draw and play some animation on a bicolor 8×8 led matrix. Approximately a year ago, I found a used, but cheap matrix (it was about 2€). I think this is the most common pinout for the bicolor led matrixes:

So the schematic is is:

The control is rather simple. One line is drawed at once, but this line is changing very quickly. Thats why the human eye can see one still picture, not just blinking lines. Basically the matrix is driven by shift registers, vertically and horizontally as well. So it consumes only 4 IO pin (two for the data (hor. and vert.) and two for the clocks). The uC could be any attiny variant of the AVR family, but in this case, the AVR have to store all of the frames.

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My Linux based router

Hello,

This is my first real post, in which I will share my experiences about building my Intel Atom and Debian Linux based router (ok, not just a router), and the result itself .
I needed something:

• to store my stuff (movies, musics, photos, source codes etc.) locally, not on a remote server or something
• to get my stuff available on the internet if needed
• to download stuff to it, via bittorrent 24/7
• to handle routing and firewall roles
• to use less power than a desktop machine, with two ethernet cards

I was thinking about some ASUS or Linksys router with USB and an USB HDD, but it is not so efficient and powerful in p2p. Then I decided to make a serverlike Linux system, with a low power consumption x86 configuration, than I can do anything what Linux supports. Of course I wanted to solve it in a small place. Ok, let’s get mini-ITX. However, VIA EPIAs are always expensive (maybe because they are for the industry), Intel had a new (in the middle of 2008) mini-ITX motherboard, called D201GLY2. This mobo had an embedded Intel Celeron 220 and SATA ports, which met my needs.

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Hello world!

Welcome to my site. First thing is that sorry for my English. Here I will try to share as many of my projects as I can.

The possible subjects will based on AVR (Atmel’s 8bit RISC) microcontrollers, or probably some little Linux programs.

I start this page, because I got almost all of the help to my projects from the internet, from people’s blog like this, and now I try to give back a little to this community.

For the AVR projects I usually use WinAVR and AVR Studio, so you can get my projects in C code.