Projects

2 Digit 99 Seconds Timer

2 Digit 99 Seconds Timer

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 […]

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9 Volt Battery Charger

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

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Microprocessors Garland

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

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pic and Led

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

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USB device

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

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