Projects

Game character planning

Persistence of Vision (POV) Dino Game

Introduction Our project is a persistence of vision styled dinosaur game. Our team was really intrigued by POV displays and we wanted to explore how POV works. That’s what led us to this project. Unlike most POV projects we have seen on the internet that only plot static graphs, we designed a POV game that […]

capacitance meter

Making a digital capacitance meter using PIC16F628A

Capacitors are one of the most common passive electrical components that are extensively used in all kinds of electronic circuits. In this project, we will discuss a technique of building a digital capacitance meter using a PIC microcontroller. This project can measure capacitance values from 1 nF to 99 μF, with a resolution of 1 […]

Digital Voltmeter

Digital Voltmeter (DVM) using PIC16F688

Introduction This project will describe how to make a simple digital voltmeter (DVM) using a PIC16F688 microcontroller. The range of this DVM is 0-20V, but you can easily increase or decrease the range of input voltage as your requirements after you understand the voltage scaling method described in this project. The PIC micro reads the […]

Temperature Controller

PIC16F84A Temperature Controller

Ever needed to measure temperature and display it? This project details measuring temperature using a temperature sensor ,an ADC and a Microcontroller PIC16f84a with schematics,codes and illustrations. You can also get the following kit, although not based on the pic, which would make your life easier for your future projects. This project was done fairly […]

ProgrammableLED

pic12f683 Microcontroller based Programmable LED

Alex Weber over at Instructables built a great programmable LED based on the AVR chip.  Since I am tooled for PIC, I thought it would be fun to replicate what he has done. This simple project is fun and it provides a great building block for playing with collective behaviors. This is a How-To for […]

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DotStar Light Painter

High Level Design The painting is created by a vertical pole with a flashing one-meter LED strip attached to a cart being pushed by two motors. A user can use their DSLR camera to view the long exposure effect. To upload an image, the user specifies a URL through SSH on a Raspberry Pi 0 […]

Solar Recorder

pic18f458 Microcontroller based Solar Recorder

The device used for measuring daily insolation has been developed. The device was built with a PIC18F458 and the 128MB Multimedia Memory Card, MMC. The solar radiation is measured by a calculator solar cell. The PIC chip interfaces the MMC using SPI mode. The interval between samples is set to one minute. The firmware detects […]

PIC Based Speed Controller

PIC Based Speed Controller using PIC16C54

Introduction Real world applications often call for controlling small to medium sized DC motors from digital circuits. For smaller motors it is usually economically infeasible to buy a commercial speed controller as the cost of the controller will far outstrip the cost of the motor itself. The PIC’s high speed, low cost, and low power […]

Motor Controller1

Stepper Motor Controller using pic16f628a

Since I finished my degree in April, I have been looking for work. The search has been slow but hopefully soon I will be making the big bucks. To fill my spare time I decided to do something with the mounds of electronics and such sitting in my room. First is to build a robot […]

USB LCD controller

Make your own USB LCD controller using PIC18F2550

Hi everybody Ages and ages ago, I posted this and many people said they’d like a guide. So here it is! This is a guide for making an LCD that connects to your computer using USB, primarily intended to be external. You can see mine here. To make the board smaller, it doesn’t have the […]