[Brads Electronic Projects] – Page 3 – Electronic Projects and Tutorials

USB Meter Pro – The USB Multimeter and Charge Accelerator.

I have just recently launched my latest Kickstarter campaign which can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1897710270/usb-meter-pro-monitor-and-accelerate-your-usb-char?ref=category_location What Can The USB Meter Pro Do? The USB Meter Pro Can: Measure the charging speed of your mobile devices. Increase the charging speed of your mobile devices* (See below for full details). Check the ‘health’ of your USB ports …

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Adding 3D Patterns to Diptrace

By brad / Tutorials / 3 Comments

The great info on this page comes all thanks to bitfogav from the forum. Bitfogav took the time to do an excellent write up on how to add new 3D patterns into the Diptrace 3D model library. If you have never used Diptrace before, I highly recommend that you check it out here: http://diptrace.com/downloads/download-diptrace/ There …

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MAGPI – The Micro Arduino Gaming Platform Interface

By brad / Other Stuff / 1 Comment

I stumbled upon another microcontroller based handheld video game device tonight while checking out the Arduino contest over at instructables.com The MAGPI was made by instructables user zippy314 and his son. It uses minimal hardware but the results are great, the first game in their youtube video reminds me of a lunar lander / asteroids …

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MicroView: Chip-sized Arduino with built-in OLED Display! (Kickstarter)

By brad / Other Stuff / 1 Comment

Every now and again I like to do a search on Kickstarter for keywords like Arduino or Microcontroller, just to see what comes up. Today I found a really cool looking project that is compatible with Arduino and has an inbuilt OLED screen. You could make your own little games on the device, or perhaps …

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How To Break Your Smartphone.

By brad / Other Stuff / 3 Comments

I have made a whole heap of electronics and programming tutorials over the years and I thought it was about time that I let you guys know of a sure fire way to smash your smartphone’s glass digitiser. It’s quite simple really, when you’re working with some wood, nails and a hammer – be sure …

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Arduboy – The Credit Card Sized Video Game System.

By brad / Other Stuff / 4 Comments

Now this is a project that I can get excited about! Kevin from over at bateske.com has come up with the coolest credit card sized gaming device I have ever seen! I thought my credit card sized 64 Pixel LED game system was cool. The Arduboy is not only the same length and width as a …

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Swordfish Basic Floating Point Math Problem.

By brad / Other Stuff / 5 Comments

I am working on another new project (surprise, surprise…) where I am measuring current of different devices and sending it to an LED matrix. I am using a PIC18F13K50 microcontroller for the job and coding in Swordfish Basic. I was in the initial stages of testing the led matrix display and I ran some simple …

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Make your own Super Mario Bros Levels

By brad / Other Stuff / 5 Comments

My 5 and 4 year old boys very much enjoy playing games from my retro video game collection with Super Mario Bros being their favourite. So I did a little searching on the internet for a Super Mario Bros level editor and well, I found one. It is called Super Mario Bros. Game Builder and …

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