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Category Archives: Programming
Designing, Simulating and Implementing a Simple Car Alarm on a Xilinx FPGA – Part II
Objectives Implement a simple car alarm on a Xilinx Spartan 3 Starter kit board from Digilent, using the VHDL code exported from Multisim 12.0 in our first part of this tutorial, In this second part we will implement and test … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Projects, Programming
Tagged Car Alarm, Digilent, FPGA, HDL code, Simple Alarm, Spartan-3E, Xilinx
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Designing, Simulating and Implementing a Simple Car Alarm on a Xilinx FPGA – Part I
Objectives Design and simulate a simple car alarm on NI Multism 12.0 and implement on a Xilinx FPGA Spartan 3 Starter kit board from Digilent. This is a two parts post. In this part we will design a logic circuit … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Projects, Electronic Simulation, Programming
Tagged Car Alarm, Digilent, FPGA, HDL code, Simple Alarm, Spartan-3E, Xilinx
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BlueTerm app for most Android devices
Introduction Having “hacked” into BlueTerm source code to make it work with my HTC clone, known as A3 Star (HD2 T8585 clone), I thought why not make the mod in order that BlueTerm will function in most Android devices with … Continue reading
Overcoming Android bluetooth “blues” with Reflection method
Introduction It is an Android problem: bluetooth does not function in a satisfactory manner. Having recently started to “hack” into Android devices, and learning while doing, I was immediately confronted with the real world of something that does not fully … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Apps, Programming
Tagged Android, Bluetooth "blues", Bluetooth issues, Java, MediaTek, Reflection method
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Android controlled robot via bluetooth
Introduction Having recently bought an Android phone, I thought it would be a nice endeavour to control a robot with such a device. Android being open-source, attracts a large following, and hence there are many different ready-made solutions that can … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Apps, Programming, Robotic Projects
Tagged Android, BlackBerry Bold, Bluetooth, MIT Scratch, Nokia N97, Robo-51, Scratch, Zx-Bluetooth
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Access Control with RFID Tags
Introduction It is quite easy to read IDs of RFID tags, using Parallax’s serial or USB RFID card reader. If you have two RFID cards at least, and of course Parallax RFID reader, you can set up, without hassle, the … Continue reading
Bluemote – remote control of a 8051 robot with bluetooth
About the author: Pedro Vicente, 21 years old, is a 3rd year Electrical Engineering student at Institutto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. During the Summer of 2010 spent a month at ALIATRON as a trainee, when among other projects did … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Projects, Internet of Things, Programming, Robotic Projects
Tagged Bluetooth, Robo-51, SerialTerm, Server, Termite, XAMPP, Zx-Bluetooth
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Controlling a robot with bluetooth-enabled cell phone
Tested on Nokia N97 and Blackberry Bold 9700. Introduction After having recently designed a virtual gamepad to control a robot, making use of a serial bluetooth device, I thought why not do the same with a cell phone. My Nokia N97 … Continue reading
Bluemote – A Virtual Gamepad for Bluetooth Control of a Robot
This application was born after a student trainee, Pedro Vicente, spent his Summer at my company Aliatron and did a technical project with a 8051-based robot “Robo-51” from Inex . Pedro has already published here in this blog, his work that is based on … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Projects, Programming, Robotic Projects
Tagged BlueMote, Bluetooth, Inex, Processing, Robo-51, Robot Control, Virtual Gamepad, Zx-Bluetooth
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Coding in PHP a Hijri-Gregorian Calendar
Why a Hijri-Gregorian calendar: Muslims follow a lunar calendar, named Hijri calendar. Hijra means “migration” in arabic. The muslim lunar calendar starts with the migration of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, from Mecca to Medina. The actual muslim hijri … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
Tagged hijra, Hijri, Hijri calendar, hijri code, hijri-gregorian, Islamic calendar, lunar calendar
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