Building a Single Pixel Scanner
A flat bed scanner typically uses three rows of CCD sensors (RGB) to capture images placed directly on top of the glass bed. When the CCD array scans from one end of the image to the other, the digitized color…
Tag: Arduino Due
HP 7044A X-Y Recorder Teardown, Lorenz Attractor
I picked up an HP 7044A X-Y recorder on eBay recently. This one was made in the early 1980’s and by today’s technology standard it is rather ancient. And because of this, it is very easy to interface with as…
Turn Your Android Phone into a Wireless Touchpad
In this blog post, I will show you a simple way of turning your Android phone into a wireless touchpad. For this to work all you need is your Android phone, an Arduino board and a HC-06 (or HC-05) bluetooth…
Using Arduino Due’s True Random Number Generator
Arduino Due uses an Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU, which has a native hardware based True Random Number Generator (TRNG). In this post, we will take a brief look at how to use it in the Arduino environment and take…
On Arduino Due PWM Frequency
I just got myself a couple of Arduino Due boards. While they were released almost two years ago, I have not really got a chance to look at these until quite recently. Arduino Due is based on Atmel’s ATSAM3x8E 32-bit…