UCL students build low-cost, Arduino-powered, Lego atomic force microscope

        Alice Pyne, a PhD student at University College London, is trying to give schools cheap access to the expensive imaging capabilities that allowed her team to...........................read more

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Microchip and element14 Announce Raspberry Pi® chipKIT™ Expansion

        Great news from Microchip and element14. They have collaborated to release Raspberry Pi® chipKIT™ Expansion Board, world’s first with...............................read more

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THREE SERVO HEXAPOD

         In the second year of college I started my first important project. This is the first robot built by me, a autonomous hexapod robot powered by only................read more

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Arduino’s Yún powers this Gmail (alert) lamp

        Although Arduino Yún was released a short time ago, there are already many tutorials on the internet. Stefano Guglielmetti started several projects with this platform, one of them........read more

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THREE SERVO HEXAPOD - HOW TO

         This robot was my first robot and for this reason I am very fond of him. Below I will explain roughly how to build such a robot.......................read more

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LITTLE ROBOT FRIENDS

         Thursday, October 12th, Kickstarter launched the Little Robot Friends. According to the Kickstarter "Little Robot Friends are cute, smart, and.......................read more

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RHex Robot that Can Jump, Swim and Climb Stairs

        Few guys who have a lot more free time and brain, built a few years ago a robot able to travel on any terrain. Moreover, it can even...............read more

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PIC16F877 & SRF05 ULTRASONIC SENSOR

         Here I will briefly present the code used to read data from an ultrasonic sensor like SRF04, SRF05 and other like this, and it works even with cheaper................read more

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PIC16F877 & SERVO MOTORS

        Servo motors are widely used in robotics projects and more. Therefore, I will present a way to control a servo motor connected directly to a microcontroller digital pin.........read more

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PIC16F877 & L298 DC MOTOR DRIVER

        Here I want to introduce you how to connect a PIC16F877 microcontroller with a L298N dc motor driver and two dc motors. Also I will present the source code used ..............read more

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KS0108 bitmap

This part of the project is still in development phase. Once it's done I'll post here. Thanks for your patience.

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KS0108 graphic

So, in the first part we present the code to initiate display and in the second part code to display text. In the third part I will present the code..........read more

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KS0108 text

         As I said in the first part here, in the second part I will present the code used to display characters on the graphic display................read more

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