About: Ibrar Ayyub

Complete Circuit Board Lab & POV Business Card Introduction Though there are many Instructables on some aspect of how to make circuit boards, this one is different. It’s an instructable on how to make the things you need to make circuit boards, specifically, a flamboyant business card toy. Over the past six months I have […]

Introduction On this page a circuit is described, making it possible to interface a PIC and a PS/2 mouse. If you send me a request (read further), it is possible to obtain for free also the assembler program to communicate with the PS/2 mouse. The PIC microcontroller used to test and develop the communication with […]

Summary This is a description of how I designed and built my UV exposure box. After experimenting a bit with dry-laminate photo-resist and liquid UV hardened solder mask I decided to stop trying to improve my toner transfer technique and rather build a proper UV radiation unit for making printed circuit boards. I wanted it […]

The goal of this project is to construct a simple 0-9999 seconds count down timer with an alarm and a display. The time is set through two tact switches and the count down seconds are displayed on a 4-digit seven segment LED display. The project uses PIC12F683 microcontroller for all I/O and timing operations and […]

Description The AS3935 is a programmable Lightning Sensor™ IC that detects the presence and approach of potentially hazardous lightning activity in the vicinity.  It detects intra-cloud activity as well as cloud to ground flashes, often enabling risk to be evaluated for approaching storms. The US National Weather Bureau suggests the 30-30 rule when lightning is imminent (When a flash is seen […]

This post provides the i2c code (using the i2c module built in the hardware[1]) for PIC16F877 microcontroller. This code is written in C language using MPLAB with HI-TECH C compiler. You can download this code from the ‘Downloads‘ section at the bottom of this page. It is assumed that you know how to blink an LED with PIC16F877 microcontroller. […]

While driving on highways, drivers should not exceed the maximum speed limit permitted for their vehicle. However, accidents keep on occurring due to speed violations as drivers follow their speedometers and control their speed according to them, and reduce the speed if they find it to be exceeding and beyond their control. A highway speed checker comes handy […]

A short video clip is sometimes better than a long explanation : The idea of this circuit is to hack PIC oscillator circuit, by replacing the crystal by a coil : the frequency of the oscillator then depends on presence of metal near the coil, just like in a classic metal detector. To detect changes of main […]

A friend of mine and I want to share with you what I did to set the thermostat circuit. As I used the circuit temperature sensor Ds18B20. 3-digit, 7 shows the screen with dijit. Please note that the range of 0 to 99.9. When the relay circuit arranged to set value is designed to get […]

The IEEE 1394, which is also called FireWire by Apple, is an interface standard for high-speed serial bus for connecting devices to a personal computer. Like USB, IEEE 1394 is a serial bus that uses twisted-pair wiring to move data around. However, USB is limited to 12Mbps, IEEE 1394 currently handles up to 400Mbps. The […]