Saturday, April 30, 2011

Pimp My Hexbug!

What is a Hexbug you ask ? Well, a Hexbug is a line of micro robotic creatures! Sounds fancy doesn't it ? actually it's quite boring, if you ask me, for example, mine just walks around until it hits something and then it turns around and that's basically just about it! That's why I've decided to reuse the mechanical parts and boost the bug a bit.  So I designed a small wireless board to control my Hexbug. This is the modified...
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MCP9800 Temperature Sensor

A while ago I picked up a few temperature sensors from DigiKey, it's been in my junk box for sometime now, so I decided it's about time to do something with it! Features The MCP9800 is a high accuracy digital temperature sensor from Microchip, the sensor has an  I2C interface, a configurable 9-bit to 12-bit temperature resolution, shutdown mode, one-shot mode (one conversion while in shutdown) and finally an interrupt...
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