About: Ibrar Ayyub

Espressif systems has been working on different audio applications including smart speakers. Despite the fact that they have been developing their audio applications, as of February 2018, none of ESP32 software development kits was easily accessible and the hardware kits were not able to take on any new tasks. So, there were no chances to […]

Giant Strides have been moving towards research and production of aluminum batteries. Different teams are working hard to ensure the production of sustainable Aluminium batteries. Recently, Standford University scientists released the first high-performance aluminum battery that can last for a long period, charges very fast and is not expensive. The battery makes use of graphite […]

Interfacing PIC18F4550 with DS3231 RTC The DS3231 is a low cost , extremely accurate real time clock with a built-in crystal oscillator. The characteristics of the DS3231 make it one of the best choices for real time clock chips. This project shows how to build is simple real time clock and calendar (RTCC) using PIC18F4550 […]

The dream of every maker and innovator out there is to make a product that will be usable by potential users. For hardware-based products and devices, the first step in achieving this is to develop a prototype and then move from there. The prototype will involve making a circuit diagram on a breadboard and then […]

Interfacing PIC18F4550 with LM35 This small topic shows the circuit diagram and CCS C code of the interfacing of LM35 temperature sensor with PIC18F4550 microcontroller. The LM35 temperature sensor is three pin device (VCC, OUT and GND) with an output voltage linearly related to Centigrade temperature. Since the LM35 output varies with dependent to the […]

Making an audio player (.wav files) using PIC microcontroller is not complicated especially when the MCU has a PWM module. This topic shows how to build an audio player using PIC18F4550 microcontroller where the the file is stored in an SD card with FAT16 or FAT32 file system. In this project I used a wave […]

Beaglebone boards are low power open source single board computers created to teach open source hardware and software to makers. However, BeagleWire is a development platform designed for use with Beaglebone board. BeagleWire is a Beaglebone compatible shield based on the Lattice iCE40HX FPGA and is also an open source FPGA development board, a rare feature […]

Building a USB mouse using PIC18F4550 microcontroller and CCS C compiler is easy as shown in the link below: USB Mouse using PIC18F4550 microcontroller Also, it is not hard to add an infrared remote control to the previous USB project. This post shows how did I build a simple IR remote controlled USB mouse using […]

Giada, the Chinese based company and a provider of embedded PCs, embedded motherboards, server and storage appliances, has recently announced a new AP23 series Pico boards based around the Intel® Apollo Lake platform. The Intel Apollo platform is based on the Intel Atom® processor E3900 series, Intel® Celeron® processor N3350, and the Intel® Pentium® processor […]

The microcontroller PIC16F887 has a build in USART (Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) module. This module can be used as UASAT or UART. This small post shows an example for the usage of the UART protocol with PIC16F887 microcontroller. Hardware Required:   PIC16F887 microcontroller MAX232 — datasheet 4 x 10uF polarized capacitor Female COM port Breadboard 5V […]