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e-Gizmo gizDuino board, an Arduino compatible platform, has a minor issue with the older Arduino IDE ; a resistor R5 has to be added in the reset circuit to make the board work under Windows Operating system. With Arduino IDE running under Linux, this resistor is not needed and must actually be removed .   [...]

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It’s 2012, the year the World ends. Whichever world it is, no one is quite sure yet. Well,  it’s life as usual @ e-Gizmo. To start the year off, one of our main-stay product, the gizDuino – not an exact clone, but an Arduino compatible programmable controller board, will take a significant price plunge. Early December 2011, we [...]

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For something like a year, I’ve been scouting several supplier of Bluetooth module in search of a more affordable alternative to our existing models.  The quest had so far, had been discouraging. I purchased quite a number of samples from several Chinese manufacturers, unlucky me somehow, I always received samples that are either not built [...]

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The model 623 multi coin acceptor was made available early this year. It was welcome addition to e-Gizmo product line.  In fact, the first few dozen was immediately sold out in just a short while after availability was announced. Things did not went very well for the first few dozens though. To our horror, we [...]

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With a gazillion of cheap USB devices abound, one may find it hard to believe why microcontroller fanatics seem to generally ignore these devices in favor of home brew equivalents that eventually cost more. The truth is, they have good reasons to be so. USB devices are cheap, but they require unwieldy programs to set [...]

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Some time after the release of the e-Gizmo Mobile Robot, there was a peculiar software that was discovered (through an informant) which was almost immediately configured for use with the e-Gizmo Mobot. The software, a third-party program called ‘Babuino’, is a program that introduces a simplified and graphical method of mobot programming (a GUI). What [...]

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For purposes of proximity or distance-sensing, the Photo-reflective sensor is amongst the commonly chosen electronic components. As a concrete example of its capabilities, one of the fairly common applications of this sensor can be seen from automatic sliding doors. You may, or unfortunately, may not have had encountered such a peculiar door, but to those [...]

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If you are looking for something useful you can assemble, either to hone your soldering skill, or simply want to keep yourself busy in a one slow afternoon, here is a very inexpensive yet useful circuit that you can build in just one seating- a 100 Hz -1 kHz  triangle and square wave generator. The [...]

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e-Gizmo TTL to RS232 converter kit is one must-have tool if you work often on microcontroller circuits that requires connections to external RS-232C devices, such as a PC. This kit is just not a RS-232C converter, with the installation of a jumper and a suitable cable, it can be used as well as a programming [...]

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P-BOT is a entry level mobile platform designed with budget conscious pinoy hobbyists and students in mind. It is now undergoing its final phase of evaluation, and if everything goes well, first few kits will be available for sale before the end of October this year. The P-BOT is a fun way to learn programming [...]

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