Category Archives: Projects

RT5350 Part I – HAME MPR-A1 Teardown

Posted on May 11, 2013 by openschemes

The MagiQuest project got the old braincells churning about how one of these home games might be networked in the backyard for Halloween or something.  One thing led to another, and a big old journey into the land of Wifi … Continue reading →

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MQ Widget Part III

Posted on March 13, 2013 by openschemes

Welcome back to some technical content for a change!  Hopefully you’ve already been following Part I and Part II of our articles on decoding the signals from Magiquest infrared wands. In Part I, we discussed the game and how to … Continue reading →

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MQ Widget Part II

Posted on February 28, 2013 by openschemes

Part I of this article discussed the MQ game itself and a bit about the wand IR transmission and protocol.  Today covers how the actual wand decoding is done in PIC assembly.  This project uses PIC12F508, a little tiny member … Continue reading →

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