In this project, we will use the chipKIT Uno32 board to build a digital stopwatch capable of timing minutes, seconds, and 1/10th of seconds, and with a basic start and stop control feature. A MAX7219-driven 8-digit seven segment LED display is used to display the time elapsed. TheĀ ResetĀ switch on the Uno32 board will be used […]
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A light meter is used to measure the intensity of illumination in a given area. It is widely used in schools, warehouses, factories, hospitals, officeĀ buildings, museums, art-galleries, parkingĀ garages, stadiums, and many more,Ā to measure and maintain proper lighting levels. The intensity of illumination is usually expressed in Lux or foot-candles. As the 4th project in our
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Description The simple 8 channel LED chaser has been a very popular project on Picprojects since it was first published a couple of years ago.Ā During that time there has been a demand for a board that could drive more LEDs so I started designing a new version of the LED Chaser using MOSFETs.Ā What
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Satellite Subsystems Irrespective of the intended application, is it a communications satellite or a weather satellite or even an Earth observation satellite, different subsystems comprising a typical satellite include the following: Mechanical structure Propulsion Thermal control Power supply Tracking, telemetry and command Attitude and orbit control Payload Antennas The structural subsystem provides the framework for
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Our first chipKIT tutorial is about reading and writing digital data (0 or 1) from and to an I/O pin of the chipKIT board. Digital inputs are useful to determine whether an incoming digital signal is logic HIGH or logic LOW. A simple application of digital input is reading the state of a push-button switch
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The PIC32 processor on the chipKIT Uno32 board provides two hardware serial ports. One of these is used by the on-board FTDI chip to create an USB-UART interface that allows the MPIDE tool running on the PC to communicate with the Uno32 board through an USB port. In this tutorial, we will use the same
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In order to understand the chipKIT platform, it is important to talk about Arduino first. Arduino is an easy-to-use and powerful open source environment for developing microcontroller based applications.Chipkit Development Board It has gained huge amount of popularity in past few years, specially among hobbyists. Arduino has been a wonderful tool, introducing many people to
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This is a third project in our chipKIT tutorial series and today we are going to construct a simple pulse rate meter usingĀ our Easy Pulse sensorĀ with DigilentāsĀ chipKIT Uno32 board. Digilentās chipKIT Basic I/O shield is also used in this project for displaying the pulse waveform and the pulse rate. What do we need? In order
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I2C or IIC (Inter-Integrated Circuit) is a simple bidirectional serial interface, which requires only 2 signal lines for data transfer. It was originally developed by Philips in 1980ā²s to provide easy on-board communications between a CPU and various peripheral chips in a TV set. Today, it is widely used in varieties of embedded systems to
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Pulse width modulation (PWM) is a technique of controlling the amount of power delivered to an electronic load using an on-off digital signal. The key idea behind this technique is that the average DC value of the digital signal, and hence the power delivered to the load, can be varied by varying the duty cycle
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