Embedded Lab | Embedded Systems tutorials, projects, and more …

Order your favorite pizza with just the push of a button

Posted on November 9, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Hungry pizza-lover yet excessively lethargic to pick up the phone or use an app to order online? Don’t worry, this Emergency Pizza button will let you instantly order a pizza full of your favorite toppings with the simple push of the button. The Pizza Button uses the BeagleBone Black microcontroller board which does all of web scrapping for you behind the screen. When the button is pressed, the web scraper can log into your Grub Hub account and order a pizza from your favorite online store (the author has programmed it for making online order from San Francisco North Beach Pizza). The Python

Mobile Sun-seeker for indoor planters

Posted on November 9, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Indoor plants are great for adding some greenery to home interior decoration. Most of the time low-lighting conditions can sustain indoor plants. However, it is still important that they get proper sunlight for healthy and greenish growth. If you have windows in more than one direction of your house, it is possible that the sunniest spot inside your house is not always the same during the course of day. This mobile sun-seeker robot helps to navigate the interior plants to enjoy the sunniest spot in the house. The mobile sun-seeker uses two continuous rotation servos to move around and are

Arduino pin monitor shield

Posted on November 9, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Carsten Tonn-Petersen has designed this Arduino pin monitor and tester shield to assist his prototyping work with Arduino. The key features of this shield is it provides one LED for every single I/O pin and can be used with Arduino Uno, Leonardo, Mega, Due, and Mini. The shield also features one tact switch and one toggle switch for digital inputs along with two potentiometers for simulating analog input voltages during prototyping. The complete list of features as Carsten has mentioned about his Arduino pin monitor and tester shield are listed below: One LED for every single input or output Can be used

Raspberry Pi Mediabox

Posted on November 8, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

MrLeeh’s Raspbmc Mediabox multimedia player uses a 7″ LCD for user interface, and is controlled by Raspberry Pi running Raspbmc, a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian for turning Raspberry Pi into an XBMC player. It can be controlled through an IR remorte, a web interface, a smartphone or tablet.

Alphanumeric LED display for web data

Posted on November 8, 2014 by R-B One comment

This 8-character alphanumeric LED display project connects to an USB port of PC and can display any data from your computer or from web such as weather info, RSS feeds from your favorite websites, time, and anything else that you would like to. The display has 8 push button for user interface to quickly navigate through various functionalities. A PC application developed in C# is used to configure the display. The display uses the PIC18F4550 microcontroller and its firmware is developed using MPLAB IDE using C18 compiler. Visit the author’s page for schematics, software, and other details.

« Older Entries Recent Entries »