BrickPi Bookreader version 2 can read a real book

BrickPi Bookreader 2 is a new version of BrickPi Bookreader and is capable to read aloud a real book and also to turn the pages of the book. The page turning mechanism is accomplished two EV3 motors, and a LEGO wheel. The Raspberry Pi takes a picture of each page and converts it to text and then speaks it aloud through speakers. When the page is done, it is flipped over to continue to a new page.

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ChronosMega: Another LED wrist watch

Designed by Nick, a BSEE student at Oakland University, ChronosMega is an Atmega328-based wrist watch that is battery-powered (3.7V rechargeable Li-Ion) and displays time (hours and minutes) in binary format using 10 LEDs. The LEDs  are arranged in a special circular pattern, where the four LEDs in upper half circle displays hours and the remaining six LEDs in the lower half circle display minute. The watch also contains an USB charger onboard, which uses Microchip’s MCP73831 charge management controller IC. There are four tact switches for user interface that controls the time setting, display, and sleep mode operation. Time keeping is

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chipKIT Project 5: Digital stopwatch on seven segment LED display

In this project, we will use the chipKIT Uno32 board to build a digital stopwatch capable of timing minutes, seconds, and 1/10th of seconds, and with a basic start and stop control feature. A MAX7219-driven 8-digit seven segment LED display is used to display the time elapsed. The Reset switch on the Uno32 board will be used to reset the current time back to 0 when the stopwatch is stopped.

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ATtiny85 based Compact Data Acquisition Device

This project, named IViny, is about an easy-to-build USB based data acquisition device using ATtiny85 MCU that communicates to a PC using V-USB. It is capable of logging data to the computer at 150 samples/sec. It features: 2 channels 0 – 5V and 0 – 3V digital input/output 2 channels 0 – 5V 10 bit analog input Channel maximum current 20 mA ATTiny85 based USB supply, no need external supply V-USB based communication PC user interface 150 Samples/sec 50 mm x 33 mm x 17 mm

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Distance meter using GPS and Arduino

A group of students at Indiana university has built an Arduino-based distance measuring tool as their class project. It is a handheld device that measures the distance between any two points using the latitude and longitude coordinates (received from GPS satellite) of the points. It provides distance output in Yards and is useful for sports applications, such as in golfing to compute the distance between where a ball is hit and where it ends up.

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