OLED displays and small microcontrollers

oled-displays-and-8-bit-uC

If you've ever thought of utilizing a small and inexpensive OLED display in your project [Rossum] has the details you need to get started. In the past we've seen him take a tour of available LCD screens and this is much the same, detailing his look at three different models. In the video after the break each is connected to a driver board that he made. The boards have two important components, the … [Read more...]

200 mile RF transmitter (and high altitude balloon)

No, really, [Scott] wrote an article for us (we can't use it do to quote and copyright and blah blah blah) but if you're submitting your own work...take note. We like the information.

If there is one thing we like, it's a fellow hacker so enthusiastic about his or her work that they write the article practically for us by including as much detail and information as possible. In this two part hack, [Scott] wrote in to let us know not only about a high school built high altitude balloon, but also his $5 long range RF transmitter. The former is simply GPS and video data logged … [Read more...]