2 Digit Count Down Timer is a utility Count Down timer project for upto 99 seconds of countdown time. This project can find many uses in your shack and home. The relay output remains on during the Count Down period, allowing you to interface load or alarm that you want to keep it on for […]
Projects
LED dot matrix scrolling message – 14×5 – source code
I have built various scrolling message badges for instance using the 16F57- 10×5 and 12×5. However, since these chips only have a small FLASH, there is not much flexibility. I don’t really recommend these controllers for a scrolling message. Recently I have started a new project, using small 1.9mm ready made modules, and a 16F884. […]
2meter (144MHz) amateur radio transceiver
I designed , built, tested and operated a 2m hamradio transceiver that includes all the necessary circuitry, in particular the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) + phase-locked loop (PLL) for frequency synthesis, low noise amplifier (LNA) for the receiver front-end, power amplifer (PA) for the radio frequency (RF) output stage and PIC based micro-controller (PIC) with serial […]
9 Volt Battery Charger
9 Volt batteries extensively used in various electronics measurement equipment. Powering these devices with rechargeable batteries can be a cost effective solution. In this post a simple Lithium-ion 9 Volt Battery Charger design with overcharging protection will be presented. Charger is based on PIC16F876A microcontroller and uses its A/D module to monitor current flow into […]
Car battery charger with PIC12F683
This time I’m starting off with a device I already built, unfortunately there won’t be any photos from the actual build, just a quick article on how I imagined it and how it works. A short story about how the whole thing started My uncle has a nice little place at the countryside at about […]
Motion Activated Led Dice using PIC16F688
Introduction I’ve always wanted to build an electronic led dice, but something different from what we see on the internet. Making it motion controlled… now that’s new! Many new cell phones that have accelerometers built in also have dice games. These dice move when shaking the cell phone. My Led Dice project will […]
Microprocessors Garland
1. Presentation For some time now, I think the commercially available garlands, are too boring, too repetitive with their two or three alternations of colored bulbs. I wanted to create a truly personalized one without ruin me either. Two ideas immediately came: – a microprocessor to control all the lights, but at the cost of […]
PIC16F84 Fundamentals
The photo shows a PIC16F84 microprocessor board tethered, by ribbon cable, to a circuit having 8 LEDs and an 8-position DIP switch. Learning a microprocessor’s capabilities often demands such a setup where LEDs turn on/off, blink at desired rates and respond to switches. This tutorial serves to quickly accelerate your PIC16F84 development ambitions. Motivation and […]
internetworking with microchip microcontroller pic18f+enc28j60
Description The ENC28J60 is Microchip’s first incursion into the ethernet controller arena, this new device includes all MAC & PHY IEEE 802.3 10BaseT functions, 8KB of dual access RAM packet buffer and a SPI serial interface, all in a convenient 28-pin package (SPDIP, SOIC, SSOP and QFN packages available). It takes just few components to […]
Building a PIC18F USB device
Introduction I get a number of emails every month asking about creating USB devices using the PIC18F microcontroller. After looking at projects such as my Atari Joystick USB Adaptor and C64 VICE Front-End there seems to be a demand for more information on how to ‘hack your own’. In this article I will show how […]