In this article Frank Zhao details his project to make a Logic Analyzer with an ATMEGA168 microcontroller. This is the same microcontroller used in the popular Arduino platform so many of you should be able to make use of this project. The ATMEGA168 does the work of taking samples and works with Processing and Java […]

YourITronics is running a giveaway program similar to what we have here at uCHobby. In this program you receive PCBs made in China in exchanged for an article about your design published at YourITronics. The PCBs you receive are your own design so you get a set of PCBs to build up your design.
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In this article Bernard Klinc shows us his homemade PCB process. He gives step by step instructions with plenty of pictures. Bernard will receive a giveaway item of his choice from the hobby parts for articles project here at uCHobby.

We all know the fancy companies that make PCBs. The do make great quality boards but […]

In this article Bernard Klinc demonstrates audio playback using the dsPIC on a simple breadboard layout with a free code library for SD card access from Microchip. Bernard will receive a giveaway item of his choice from the hobby parts for articles project here at uCHobby.

This project is mostly around the Microchip MDDFS library […]

Well we have learned a lot about the wind generator and issues related to low voltage power transfer. We know why the wind generator mentioned in these previous articles, here and here, has failed to work for us. We also have a plan and some interesting experiments to try. More after the jump.

The key […]

I received two special styrobots this week! Jigglygoo and Uchobbygoo are pictured here smiling for the camera. These robots are awesome and will be honored guests. I plan to take Jigglygoo to my day job office. There is a spot waiting for it on my book case. Uchobbygoo will stay right here next to […]

We have been doing some alternate energy projects here at uCHobby and needed some big batteries to charge with solar panels or wind generators. I looked though my “To-Be-Scrounged” collection and found a large UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) This UPS had two large Lead Acid Gel Cell batteries and lots of other useful parts. […]

Well it is not good news. Seems that the Sunforce Wind Generator does not work well. We believe that they may have over complicated the generator package to make it easier to use and ended up making it almost useless. The key problem is that it refuses to charge our battery. We watch the generator […]

Paul of Modern Device Company dropped me a note about the new version of his Arduino compatible RBBB and offered to sponsor a comment contest! You may have seen the new Arduino Nano in recent news. Well Modern Device company has one of those as well. As with all the bare bones boards, the RBBB […]

Alan Wang sent in this review of the breadboard power supply kit. We will be sending him the latest revision of the kit as a thank you for his review. If you are interested in the solderless breadboard kit this review may be useful for you.

The breadboard power supply: Useful and straight forward
You find your […]