Control theory must be on the short list for the most important subject that no one talks about. Break open a hobbyist robotics book and you are lucky if control systems are even mentioned. Control systems run our cars, fire our multi-million dollar missiles, and keep our buildings at the right temperature. The phase locked loops (PLLs) …..

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So long Hackhut… You have been fine, but recent breaks, and political correctness force my hand with my moving to Blogspot. I can now be found at http://bouldermaker.blogspot.com/, where I will soon have a new project (video, and source) to check out.

The power switch, brake switch and battery holder are parts of an existing blinker. The 4 LEDs and 5 resistors will be on a retrofitted PCB.

I came back home after two weeks of workshops and lectures (mainly about maths and physics, some programming also involved) just to realize that my friend, Aneta, is having birthday party the next day. I decided that buying a present is too easy and I also wanted it to be more personal, so I made it myself. It’s a copper …..

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The USART-based bootloader is probably the most popular way of burning code to the AVR. The Arduino, for one, uses this method.

For example say you were using a FTDI cable to talk to your Arduino. First the USB connector end of the cable would go into your host computer. The other end of the cable …..

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Okay, this is my first post on the HackHut blog-worklog thing. I’ll post some of my previous projects later and I will be adding descriptions about my current work too. It will mainly involve robotics, electronics and some other machanical stuff. Everything you can do out of junk using soldering iron, welding equipment, angle grinder, screwdriver, saw and knife.

Yours sincerely, …..

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Currently doing some work with long range wifi. waiting to finish what I’m doing before I share my results, their looking pretty good.

Recently did some work with the solar pendulum by Solarbotics…Check out my pages if your interested in seeing how it went.

(Sorry no pictures, my camera batteries were dead. And once I am in the zone – its hard to stop and find more batteries.)

I was looking into purchasing one of the all-in-one MIDI keyboard, knob controller, drum pad jobbies. There are a few models out there, but the axiom 25 looked cool, and seemed right. I had read about their …..

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I sure hope Nintendo doesn’t sue…

There are 64 RGB LEDs spinning around on an aluminum frame, spun by a motor picked up at Princess Auto for $20.

I control everything via an ATMEGA1284p microcontroller, as it was one of the only micros that had the memory space I needed for images.

I hope to get some more color out of the system …..

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