Miscellaneous AVR-USB Projects

This page lists projects implemented with AVR-USB. Please remember: We also want to list your project! If you don't have a web site to publish it, we can host it in our Wiki.

SFX4 - a Model Sound Effects Module

This is a commercial project using AVR-USB, sources are not publicly available. SFX4 stores multiple digital sound clips up to a total of 3 minutes, and plays them back through a 9 W PWM power amplifier and loudspeaker. Sound clips are stored in a 4 MByte FLASH chip. Up to seven different sound clips, including a semi-proportional engine sound, may be stored in one module and two sounds may be played simultaneously. Sound Clips are downloaded/uploaded through USB.

http://www.modelsolutions.ca/catalog_sound_systems.htm
Author: Model Solutions of Canada

xu1541

C64 floppies can only be read by Commodore floppy drives. Unfortunately, these drives cannot be directly connected to modern PCs. This project is an adapter which connects the VC 1541 floppy drive via USB.

http://www.trikaliotis.net/xu1541
Author: Till Harbaum and Spiro R. Trikaliotis
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The Lord of the Keys - Store Passwords on SmartCards

This password database emulates a USB keyboard to send passwords to the computer. It's the winner of a Honorable Mention Award in Circuit Cellar's AVR design contest. An interesting mix of technologies with excellent documentation!

http://www.terra.es/personal/ccossio/atmelAVR2006.htm
Author: Carlos Cossio
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Miniature Robot

This is a miniature robot programmed via USB. Most of the documentation is in French, but the Readme file in the project download (search for "avr-usb" in the linked description) is in English.

http://www.cours.polymtl.ca/inf1995/fichiers/
Author: Matthew Khouzam
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gnusb - a Platform for Controllers and Sensors

Gnusb is a platform for building USB controllers - like mixers, foot pedals and the like - primarily for use with Max/MSP or pure-data.

http://gnusb.sourceforge.net/
Author: [ a n y m a ] - Max & Michael Egger
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USB-DDS - Frequency Generator 0 to 40 MHz

This Direct Digital Synthesizer generates sine waves from 0 to 40 MHz with millihertz resolution under computer control. It is useful for amateur radio operators as a reference oscillator.

http://www.mydarc.de/dg8saq/AVR-USB/
Author: Thomas Baier
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unzap - Universal IR Receiver and Transmitter

This IR Receiver and Transmitter with 2 MB of flash memory for IR code storage has numerous applications, some of them are a bit subversive...

http://www.lochraster.org/unzap/
Author: Alexander Neumann
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AVR-MIDI - a Class Compliant MIDI Device

This MIDI controller uses the same tricks as AVR-CDC to implement a MIDI class compliant USB device. It does not require special host side drivers, but since it goes beyond the specification for low speed devices, it may not work on some hosts.

http://cryptomys.de/horo/AVR-MIDI/
Author: Martin Homuth-Rosemann
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Ginger

Ginger is a physical computing platform similar to Gainer (which is based on a PSoC chip). You can read digital and analog inputs and set output data, all over USB. Ginger's web site is currently in Japanese only, but Readme file in the project is in English.

http://web.mac.com/kuwatay/morecat_lab./ginger.html
Author: Yoshitaka Kuwata
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Pepper-MIDI - Control SX-150 Synth via MIDI

Who said that analog synths have no MIDI interface? This project adds MIDI to the Gakken SX-150 synthesizer.

http://web.me.com/kuwatay/morecat_lab./Pepper-midi-e.html
Author: Morecat Lab
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FunkUSB - DCF77 Receiver with USB

This project is a radio clock receiver (DCF77) which connects to the host computer via USB. Documentation is in German only since the DCF77 signal can't be received far away from Germany anyway.

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/Rund%20um%20den%20PC/FunkUsb/
Author: Henrik Haftmann
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ATMega-USB-Dingens

This is a kind of prototyping board. It's basically an ATMega8 with USB and all other pins available at connectors. "Dingens" is a German slang word for "thingy".

http://www.infolexikon.de/blog/atmega-usb-thingy/
Author: Tobias Weis
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