KickStarter: StickyBUGs for Arduino and chipKIT
Forget about wiring and soldering. StickyBUGs are low-profile and stackable modular boards that let you quickly and easily create your own shields to fit into your space-constrained Arduino® based...
View ArticleOctoblu IoT with chipKit Uno32 + Motor Shield
chipKIT boards have a new option for building IoT applications: the Octoblu platform! In this hackster.io tutorial, Andrew shows you how to get up and running with Octoblu using a chipKIT Uno32 and a...
View ArticleUse an RC Servo input to control a stepper motor output
Have you ever wondered if you could control a stepper motor’s speed and direction using an RC servo controller (for example from the stick of a RC airplane transmitter)? Wonder no longer – using a...
View ArticleMultiple Servos on chipKIT uC32
Can you do it? Yes you can! James at Digilent has put together a post to show how you can run five or more servos on chipKIT uC32 quite easily, as long as you follow some guidelines. The chipKIT Servo...
View ArticlechipKIT Pro and Stepper Motors
Stepper motors seem to be the thing these days! As a follow-on to a couple of posts regarding the use of chipKIT Pro with I/O control and Delays, we want to share Learn.Digilentinc’s chipKIT Pro with...
View ArticlechipKIT Text-Message-Enabled Sign and Music Light Box (Man Cave Sign)
Using our DIY chipKIT-board tutorial, Darryl Gardner, a student of the University of South Florida, created something he calls the “Man Cave Sign” for his MakeCourse. This techie sign not only displays...
View ArticleMan Cave Sign – Stepper Motor Control with chipKIT
As a follow-on to a previous post about the “Man Cave Sign“, today’s post shares Darryl’s tutorial for how he put together the stepper motor portion of the Man Cave Sign. Note that stepper motor PCBs...
View ArticleTrophy for chipKIT WF32 Controlled iPad Mount for the Sight Impaired!
In a Digilent-sponsored senior design competition, Kaitlyn Franz’s team won a second place trophy for their project. The team created a Wi-Fi controlled iPad mount for assisting the sight impaired to...
View ArticleUsing a chipKIT WF32 and a Raspberry Pi to set up fan control for XBOX
Has your XBOX ever overheated due to excessive use? If so, have you ever wondered what you can do to stop it? In a fan-control project–developed by Austin Stanton after his XBOX 360 died–this is...
View ArticleHelveKit Robot: A chipKIT Robot Design
There are plenty of “how to design a robot” tutorials out there; this is not one of them. Why is this one different? Because the author, GastonLagaffe, doesn’t want to tell you what to do, as he...
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