With my Grandma’s birthday fast approaching I wanted to put something together that was not too complicated but still sweet enough to make for a cool widget gift. Since fading LEDs never seem to go out of style and grandmas always love to see a heart, putting two and two together here was a no-brainer. […]
Spooky Led Lamp This is a hollowed out light bulb filled with fluorescent liquid and two UV leds plus one red led immersed in the liquid. When turned on the light bulb flickers for a while then starts to pulsate randomly with the UV leds giving a spooky but rather nice look. The bulb is
How to interface LED with Microchip’s PIC microcontroller? How to connect LEDs to a PIC microcontroller? LED interfacing is the stepping stone for microcontroller development. This is a simple embedded program for PIC 16F877A to interface LEDs, suitable for beginners who wish to study basics of embedded microcontroller programming. The program is developed through Micro
In this article, we will show how to drive a 7 segment LED Display using a PIC16F690 microcontroller. This PIC16F690 microcontroller chip is actually a part of the PIC2 Starter Kit, so we will actually be using this starter kit to drive the LED Display. A 7 Segment LED Display is an electronic device that
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This post provides the LED blinking code (compiled in MPLAB + HI-TECH C) for PIC18F452. Complete project code and the proteus simulation can be downloaded from the Downloads section at the bottom of this post. The following diagram shows the required circuit. In this project a crystal of 10MHz is used with PIC18F452. This crystal frequency is fed
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Quick & Easy RGB-LED Tester Have you ever built a project with a lot of LEDs, and found out that one of the LEDs was defective? Although it’s somewhat rare, there are some defective LEDs when you go through hundreds of them. I found that RGB-LED have high defect rate, most likely due to the
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General description erberes is a small three wheel robot that avoids obstacles which it senses with its active infrared sensors. Each rear wheel has its own motor, the single front wheel is not powered. The robot steers “like a tank” by rotating the rear wheels in opposite direction. The sensors are built with infrared LEDs
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It’s 1970 and a 12 digit LED Display for pocket calculators has just been released. Nation Semiconductors are in the forefront of designing miniature displays for calculators and have a range from 2-digit to 16-digit displays. The actual 7-segment displays are so small it takes a bubble magnifier in front of the LEDs to see
Couple of weeks ago I purchased from eBay one of these amazingly cheap an useful modules with MAX7219 LED driver and 8 digit LED display. It is ideal for frequency counter project. The problem was the absence of library for PIC microcontrolers. Luckily, I found a great library for Arduino and I reworked it to
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to write a very simple program. I am assuming that you have written ladder logic before, and that you have some basic familiarity with microcontrollers, but that you have never used LDmicro. If you don’t know very much about ladder logic or PLCs, then the plcs.net tutorial
