Intro This is my first Instructable so I’m sorry for mistakes. Critics are always welcome 🙂 So in this project I made a development board for PIC16F1787. Now most of you guys aren’t familiar with this particular model. Some might even think why I chose 16Fxxxx series IC when I could have easily used 18Fxxxx …
PIC16F1787 Programmer Board (for Almost all 40 pin 16Fxxx) Continue Reading
In Tutorial 4, we learnt interfacing an HD44780-based LCD to a chipKIT board for displaying alphanumeric output. Today, we will see how to connect a NOKIA 5110 graphical LCD (used in Nokia 5110 cell phones), which is a 84Ă—48 pixel monochrome display of about 1.5″ diagonal in size. The display can be used for graphics, text, and bitmaps. Theory Nokia …
In this project, we will use the chipKIT Uno32 board to build a digital stopwatch capable of timing minutes, seconds, and 1/10th of seconds, and with a basic start and stop control feature. A MAX7219-driven 8-digit seven segment LED display is used to display the time elapsed. The Reset switch on the Uno32 board will be used …
chipKIT Project 5: Digital stopwatch on seven segment LED display Continue Reading
A light meter is used to measure the intensity of illumination in a given area. It is widely used in schools, warehouses, factories, hospitals, office buildings, museums, art-galleries, parking garages, stadiums, and many more, to measure and maintain proper lighting levels. The intensity of illumination is usually expressed in Lux or foot-candles. As the 4th project in our …
Description The simple 8 channel LED chaser has been a very popular project on Picprojects since it was first published a couple of years ago. During that time there has been a demand for a board that could drive more LEDs so I started designing a new version of the LED Chaser using MOSFETs. What …
Satellite Subsystems Irrespective of the intended application, is it a communications satellite or a weather satellite or even an Earth observation satellite, different subsystems comprising a typical satellite include the following: Mechanical structure Propulsion Thermal control Power supply Tracking, telemetry and command Attitude and orbit control Payload Antennas The structural subsystem provides the framework for …
On-Board Satellite Controller using ARM Based Microcontroller Continue Reading
Our first chipKIT tutorial is about reading and writing digital data (0 or 1) from and to an I/O pin of the chipKIT board. Digital inputs are useful to determine whether an incoming digital signal is logic HIGH or logic LOW. A simple application of digital input is reading the state of a push-button switch …
chipKIT Tutorial 1: Digital input and output Continue Reading
The PIC32 processor on the chipKIT Uno32 board provides two hardware serial ports. One of these is used by the on-board FTDI chip to create an USB-UART interface that allows the MPIDE tool running on the PC to communicate with the Uno32 board through an USB port. In this tutorial, we will use the same …
chipKIT Tutorial 2: Serial communication with PC Continue Reading
In order to understand the chipKIT platform, it is important to talk about Arduino first. Arduino is an easy-to-use and powerful open source environment for developing microcontroller based applications.Chipkit Development Board It has gained huge amount of popularity in past few years, specially among hobbyists. Arduino has been a wonderful tool, introducing many people to …
This is a third project in our chipKIT tutorial series and today we are going to construct a simple pulse rate meter using our Easy Pulse sensor with Digilent’s chipKIT Uno32 board. Digilent’s chipKIT Basic I/O shield is also used in this project for displaying the pulse waveform and the pulse rate. What do we need? In order …
