Last year I bought this Etch-Set For Electronic Circuits from Jaycar with the intention of having a go at making my own printed circuit boards (PCBs). I’d had lots of experience working with those experimenter’s Stripboards and Perfboards, which had been more than sufficient for most of the fiddling I did in the past, however […]
Projects
One Chip Video Poker using PIC16F628 microcontroller
This is a simple video poker game for the PIC 16F628 and a 20×4 character LCD. It’s written in PIC assembly for MPASM. I started the project in 2002. I originally intended it as a birthday present for my brother, who is an enthusiastic if occasional player of casino video poker. This Mark I version […]
18 pin PIC Development Board using PIC16F62
18 pin PIC Development Board I have long been playing with Microchip PICs but have always made do without some form of development board. To that end I have designed a basic board that I was hoping to get some input for. I haven’t yet made this board as I am waiting for some kit […]
PCB layouts using CAD
Now the PCB kit I used described how I could draw my circuit layouts directly unto the copper clad board using an special pen with etch-resistant ink, however lacking the dexterity of an artist I chose to get myself some CAD software for generating PCB layouts. After a bit of research I decided to go […]
DIY Bluetooth RC Car
Last year I started a project to convert my (then) four-year old’s busted Radio Controlled (RC) car into Bluetooth controlled one which could be driven using a smart phone or tablet. The original car, modeled after a “Fast and Furious” Nissan Silvia, was a pretty basic RC with 2-channel on-off (non-proportional) style controls, and while Micah enjoyed […]
How to Interface I2C External EEPROM 24LC64 to PIC Microcontroller
Microcontrollers are standalone chips since they have memory and processor embedded. The integrated memory of microcontrollers store embedded code and other temporary variables for the execution of program. CircuitsGallery published many microcontroller tutorials and PIC microcontroller projects. Sometimes we may use non-volatile memories (i2c devices) with microcontrollers in case of storing permanent data. In this […]
Capacitance Meter MkII using PIC12F629
This project is specially designed to measure surface mount capacitors in the range 1p to 920n and electrolytics in the range 1u to 100u. The biggest problem with surface mount capacitors . . . they are not identified! And you cannot determine their value by the size of the component. This makes it very difficult. […]
SL4A Bluetooth Controller
Having had a bit of an unproductive Easter break I think it’s about time I got back to posting the concluding details of how the transmitter for the Bluetooth RC was implemented. I built the PIC-based motor and servo controller before acquiring the BlueSMiRF module so initially I wrote the following simple Python script based […]
PIC PROGRAMMER MkV using PIC12F629
PIC Programmer MkV is designed to get you into PIC Programming for just a few dollars. It uses just 12 components. Most of them will be in your “junk-box” and the PC board is a small piece of matrix board. It’s the cheapest way to get started. As well as PIC PROGRAMMER MkV you will […]
GSM Modem Interface with PIC 18F4550 Microcontroller
GSM Modem Interface with PIC 18F4550 Micro controller: Description: In this project we use PIC 18F4550 Micro controller in transmitter section keys are connected to PB0 to PB3. If we press the key PB0 the Pressed Key Value is transmitted to the micro controller section i.e receiver section . In the controller we pre programmed […]