Netduino Over the last few weeks Harford Hackerspace has had the pleasure of beta testing the Netduino. The Netduino is a development board with a form factor similar to the Arduino. Care was taken when designing the Netduino to ensure compatibility with most of the existing Arduino shields. That’s about where the similarities of the two devices […] Read more
Me and my wife recently had our first child. I’ve been trying to come up with some projects I can do for the kid. Well, around this time of the year the fireflies go crazy around my house, so we came up with the idea to do led fireflies in a jar. It should be […] Read more
Around the space, we have been using the PICkit 2 Debug Express quite a bit lately. This has allowed us to get pretty cozy with the functions of this handy little programmer and I thought I would share some of these features with you. I’m sure you’ve read the previous tutorial ‘Programming PIC Microcontrollers in […] Read more
Wednesday was the day we finally got together and started the tedious process of mastering microcontrollers. What began with just some simple LED illumination evolved and progressed throughout the evening. In the end we had individually, but collectively, written programs for interpreting analog inputs, displaying binary values, and performing counting and reset operations. The evening […] Read more