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An LDmicro Tutorial

An LDmicro Tutorial

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 […]

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PICing the MAX3100 Adding USB to a PIC Microcontroller Using the MAX3100 UART

PIC’ing the MAX3100: Adding USB to a PIC Microcontroller Using the MAX3100 UART using pic microcontroller

Abstract: USB has just become easy to implement. This application note eases equipment designers into USB by allowing them to continue to transmit and receive data using the familiar UART frames of the MAX3100 UART. A UART-to-USB converter IC and operating system driver will take care of all of the USB complexity. The application note describes

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Re Doing my Design for a circuit to control an invention using a Microchip PIC microcontroller chips.

Re-Doing my Design for a circuit to control an invention using a Microchip PIC microcontroller chips.

In a previous article I described how I designed the circuitry to control functions of the asparagus harvester.  After bread boarding up a test circuit and doing some initial programming I decided a re-do was in order. I found I had a lot of unnecessary redundancy and I also decided to put the air regulation

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