As the global fuel price keeps rising like a rocket, it is always a pleasure to find some alternative power supply.
The wind energy can be considered as one of the clean, eco-friendly and free energy. The main problem is natural wind did not always blow at the same speed and this will gradually affected [...]

Every time I watch the space invader and those cool space wanderer that landing on the moon and wandered around it, this made me felt excited.
If you never tried to create a house wanderer by yourself believe me, this is fun experience.
What to make one for yourself?
No problem but you needs to prepare these materials [...]

Probably most proper microcontroller programming method is using a bootloader program. Because you don’t need any special programming adapters or special knowledge - you just need to connect standard cable from your PC to target board and run special program on PC which communicates with MCU bootloader program. The idea is simple:

If microcontroller is preconfigured [...]

Open source rocks isn’t it? Here is a new WinAVR 20080411 release available for download. As always new release has lots of tweaks, bug fixes and optimizations. There are new XMEGA series microcontrollers preliminary included in supported device list. So we may have a chance to put hands on these new cool AVR microcontrollers. Here [...]

Still struggling with various PCB making technologies and cannot do it right, you should try Photo Etching method which is becoming more and more common among radio amateurs. All materials needed are easily accessed. Probably the hardest part is to obtain UV light source. But you can find tons of sources on the internet how [...]