Please check the update at === Digital Clock Updated Version === — Original Version — As I am a WIS so I built a clock as my first microcontroller project. The clock is controlled by PIC16F628A from the PIC book . The idea was making a digital clock with hour, minute and second display. I …
Even I have posted about “DS1307 + PIC16F877A“, I didn’t have chance to make a real prototype of the clock. I have done only on the simulation software. Today, I have received a comment about that post. ah_bear followed my code and schematic on that post but the clock didn’t work. This is because the …
In the post ‘LED 7-Segment Multiplexing‘, I have explained about the concept and benefits of multiplexing. Multiplexing implementation is very similar to driving Led Dot Matrix. I use Timer0 interrupt for switching through each digit. Timer0 or TMR0 is an 8-bit timer which overflows every 256 (0xFF) counts. It’s known that the refresh rate above …
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Small LED dot matrix development board I was very busy for the past two months so this blog just didn’t move. As you may know, the LED dot matrix display is my favorite device. I have designed a small development board for testing my led dot matrix related programs. The PCB is single sided so …
A very popular type of LED that has finally come about is the tri-color, RGB LED. The RGB stands for: red, green and blue since the LED is capable of displaying all three colors, independently. This means that an RGB LED can display any color of the rainbow. This is a powerful capability, but it …
The PICKit3 is microchip’s newest official PIC programmer and while people argue about how good it is, this programmer has never done me wrong. I upgraded away from the old ICD2 clone programmer that I had used for years when I saw that microchip sells their PICKit3 for under $50 and so now I’ll pass …
Infrared proximity sensors are very fun to play with. In the past we have used them to make Digital Theremins and Control Robots, always using its proximity sensing (how far away an object is from the sensor) as the main feature. Today, we’re going on a quest to use an infrared proximity sensor, to control …
A while back I made a blog post about a PIC10F200 Project: The Annoy. In this project they combined the simplicity in design along with the creativeness that I always look for, into a project with no real use other than for fun. However, the project seemed a little too large and we felt we …
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Source Code for PIC16F84 and CD4511 decoder Also, there is an updated version with NPN drivers replacing the 4511 and many new features by Brendon Archibald [websales optusnet.com.au] DARKROOM TIMER The purpose of this project is to present a device that is useful and at the same time demonstrate to the beginner many features …
