Kickstarter first opened its virtual doors on April 28, 2009. Since then, the wildly popular crowdfunding website has tracked over $1 billion in pledges from 5.9 million individuals who actively funded 59,000 creative projects. Unsurprisingly, quite a number of Atmel-powered Kickstarter projects have been successfully funded over the past year, including: MicroView MicroView is a […]
Tim Ellis has debuted the AVR-powered META on Kickstarter. According to Ellis, the Atmel-based platform (ATmega328PU MCU) can best be described as a unique, handcrafted, hackable, retro, open source, Motivational Electronic Text Advisor (META). “We’ve all experienced the frustration of creative drought. You’re sitting down, trying to come up with your next great idea; that […]
Stanley Lio has created a magnetometer-equipped robotic arm with three degrees of freedom to accurately measure magnetic fields. According to HackADay’s Nick Con, the arm itself was built with standard servos and aluminum mounting hardware purchased from eBay. “He then hooked an HMC5883L magnetometer to the robotic arm, using [Atmel’s] ATmega32U4 microcontroller (MCU) and the […]
I ordered the new Atmel ICE debugger as soon as it appeared on the company store. I see there is still stock so feel free to put in an order with us or your favorite distributor. Don’t get this new one confused with our JTAGICE3, sometimes called JTAGICE markIII or mk3. It looks similar, but […]
Game Frame – a grid of 256 ultra-bright LED pixels – was designed by Jeremy Williams to showcase pixel art and old school video games. As Williams notes, video game artists used to draw everything with a sheet of graph paper, a few colors and a couple of animation frames. In spite of the obvious […]
Kris Temmerman, a freelance creative developer based in Belgium, recently published a blog post detailing the design of an Arduino-based video game that he created for his neighbors to play. “I needed something that would appeal to a large audience and was fun to play. So I took the good old gaming cliché, where the […]
A Maker by the (Reddit) name of Martin2550 has designed a sweet spinning disc style POV display powered by an Atmel-based Arduino. As the HackADay crew notes, the DIY project is a great example of a Maker cheerfully modding whatever material and components happen to be readily available. “Martin2250 is using an IR LED and […]
Bare Conductive has debuted the Touch Board, an Atmel powered platform (ATMega32u4 MCU) that allows Makers to more easily create interactive and responsive projects. “Use the Touch Board to change the world around you by turning almost any material or surface into a sensor. Connect anything conductive to one of its 12 electrodes and trigger […]
Just in time for Halloween, Maker Clay Cowgill has devised a killer, interactive cabinet for the Splatterhouse Namco arcade machine he co-owns. “I like video games, Halloween, and making ‘stuff,’ so this year I combined all three and created a ‘Dead-icated’ Splatterhouse arcade game,” Cowgill explains. As the Hackaday crew reports, the Maker kicked off his Splatterhouse cabinet project […]
An Enigma machine refers to a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used in the twentieth century for enciphering and deciphering secret messages. The original Enigma was invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. According to Wikipedia, early models were used commercially from the early 1920s, although […]
