Hobby Electronic Projects & More

Development & prototyping of a hybrid locomotion robot (Student research project - 2015)

Research, prototyping, assembly

  • Researching innovative locomotion techniques 
  • Selecting two most advanced techniques to fulfill requirements
  • Building a hybrid locomotion prototype that can drive on a chain drive and is able to fly as a quadrocopter (~ 1 kg)
  • Successful prototype that exceeds requirements

Arduino RGB LED dimmer (2015)

C, Arduino, custom MOSFET driver circuit

  • Developing a LED dimmer control in C
  • Using Arduino board PWM output pins to control 4 separate RGB LED stripes
  • Soldering circuit with 6 MOSFETs to drive LEDs
LED wall clock on ATmega32 basis (2012)

C, ATmega32, PCB design and fabrication

  • Programming LED alarm clock in C with a text ticker
  • Using software PWM to drive 7 x 21 LED-matrix
  • Electrical design with MOSFETs for driving LEDs at specific operating point
  • PCB design with Eagle
  • Fabrication of PCB by etching and soldering

Ultrasonic distance alarm on ATmega16 basis (2014)

C, ATtiny2313, ultrasonic

  • Prototyping a mobile distance alarm
  • Adapting an electric circuit for ultrasonic distance measurement
  • Programming microcontroller with debugger via ISP
  • Implementing firmware in C