Smart Button This is a button a little bit smarter. (Microcontrollers and coffee, who doesn’t like) I i’m using it to fill my Coffeemaker with water. This way its a little bit more fun and i always get the same amount of water. Its a simple project, and it’s a good excuse to play with a PIC10F, […]
The intel 8051 series 8bit microcontroller, originally introduced in 1980, remains popular and has had perhaps the longest product life of all such devices. It has become the industry standard for real-time and Boolean control applications. While some (who should know better) have said that the 8051 is dead, it continues to be a viable
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Introduction When working with microcontrollers that require a factory calibrated osccal value stored in memory, its very normal that once in a while this setting could be lost during an upload of a new program or when accidentally erasing the device. Im no exception and erased many times this value by mistake in several devices.
Microcontroller was invented by Intel sometimes in the 80s ever since that invention other Electronics companies such as Atmel, Microchip and Motorola etc have manufactured different brands of Microcontroller like AT89, PIC16F and 68H All microcontrollers performs specific task based on the set of instructions giving to them through a process called Programming language. Example
A large number of embedded project require some type of user interface. This includes displaying numerical, textual and graphical data to user. For very simple numerical display we can use 7 segment displays. If the requirement is little more than that, like displaying some alphanumeric text, we can use LCD Modules. They are cheap enough
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Introduction USB is very common interface today. If you look around, many of devices today comes with a USB port. Computers, printers, routers, usb keys, etc. All this devices have a USB controller inside. These devices can be divided in two groups: USB Host (like a computer, routers, modern LCD TV’s); USB Device (like flash
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
Have you ever wondered how your PC and phones keep track of time even when the device is turned OFF? Well there is a Real Time Clock (RTC) that is kept powered even is the device is turned OFF. Once the device is turned ON and connected to the internet the device connects to a
PIC ICSP gives you a convenient way of programming PIC Micros without removing the chip from the development or production board. Note: ICSP stands for In Circuit Serial Programming. All you need is a programmer that provides the ICSP connector (usually a six pin molex/dupont connector) which you plug into your target board. For example
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This project is a micro controller chess game. The objective has to be able to play chess on a VGA monitor, including an intelligent computer to play against. This all has been accomplished with a microcontroller. I started this as a project for the college ( I am a Electrical Engineering student ), but it
