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Pressure Canning Process Controller

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:40:04 +0000

The project converts a stovetop pressure cooker/canner into a fully automated pressure processing system with the addition of a few inexpensive components. It can accurately monitors and controls the pressuring process.Using a Renesas M16C microcontroller, the system can control the entire process using an ordinary off-the-shelf pressure cooker/canner and portable electric coil burner. Once [...]

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Network Equipment Resetter

admin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:48:44 +0000

This network power resetter is built based on PIC16F628 microcontroller. It controls a solid-state-relay that connecting 110VAC Power line with a satellite internet receiver or routers.Once every 24 hours, The resetter will activate relay and drops power for 10 seconds to allow the receiver and routers to start clean, something that seems to be necessary [...]

Bathroom Utilities Management System

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:26:32 +0000

The aim of the project is to build PIC32-based bathroom utilities management system. It will control and monitoring water and electricity usage to help user save money on utility bills. The system will turn off lights when not in use and limit water usage. The PIR sensor is used to detect when someone enters [...]

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Remote Video Control System

admin — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:14:39 +0000

The Remote Video Control System will allow a remote user to fully control a separate video camcorder with a control board through InfraRed signal. The remote user has all the capabilities as if they were using the camcorder in-hand, including pan, tilt, zoom, Record, Display on/off, Tilt Position indicator, 4 speed settings, and even a [...]

Inverted Pendulum Balancer

admin — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:19:49 +0000

The goal of this project was to build and implement an inverted pendulum balancer based on microcontroller, in the vertical two dimensional plane, using Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) feedback control.The project uses radio controlled car which has been modified by adding a plexiglass platform and an inverted pendulum with free rotating pivot. The main components of the [...]

ATmega32 Ethernet I/O

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:28:04 +0000

The AVR Ethernet I/O board with accompanying PC control software offers remote control of 4 relay activated devices and status monitoring of 4 opto-coupled inputs over the Internet. Remote control is accomplished using any web browser-abled computer, or by running the custom “Ethernet I/O Control Panel” Windows software on an Internet ready PC. Browser based [...]

RC Helicopter Downlink Telemetry Module

admin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:42:44 +0000

You can collect vital flight information about RC aircraft with this clever on-board telemetry module. The module sends information via a wireless ZigBee link to a ground station consisting of a laptop computer and a ZigBee receiver. The system is implemented using an MC1392 SARD board with a few modifications. A voltage follower built with [...]

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