Heart rate measurement indicates the soundness of the human cardiovascular system. This project demonstrates a technique to measure the heart rate by sensing the variation of the blood volume inside a finger artery, which is caused by the pumping action of the heart. It consists of an infrared LED that transmits an IR signal through the fingertip […]
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When it comes to debugging a microcontroller circuit, there aren’t a lot of simple options. Since a microcontroller circuit might have multiple things going on at the same time, measuring voltages with a DMM isn’t an option. Using an computerized In-Circuit-Debugger solution is expensive and elaborate, and time-consuming to set up. People often resort to
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How to drive a lot of LEDs from a few microcontroller pins. Using the fact that many microcontroller pins have three states (+V, GND, or “high impedence”, you can drive N*(N-1) LEDs from N pins. So the little 8 pin microcontroller like a PIC12Fxxx or an ATtiny11 can drive 20 LEDs on its five available
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Tons of LED dice projects with different output forms have been published online. The most common output configuration in those projects is a 3-1-3 setup (two rows of three LEDs and one LED at in the middle) of seven LEDs, which simulates the actual patterns of dots found on the six faces of a traditional
A line following robot is a versatile machine utilized to detect and take after the dark lines that are drawn on the white surface. As this robot is produced utilizing a breadboard, it will be exceptionally easy to build. This system can be fused into the Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) for giving the simple method
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Solar Lighting Controller based on PIC12F675 micro controller to be used with a Solar Panel, Battery and a LED 12V Light, it has built with affordable materials and its ready to use, just plug your devices and its done, this controller will function by itself with no need to turn on or turn off the
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PURPIC, the wearable PICkit2 clone PIC programmer based on a design by David Tait using through hole transistors and resistors glued to a piece of cardboard. Oh, how times have changed. And as usual, I’m still 7* years behind those changed times. My latest project is a remake of today’s hottest 7-year-old PIC programmer, the
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Aiming at lighting manufacturers that don’t want to buy a soldering line, Sheffield-based Litecool has developed a self-adhesive self-connecting LED package that can be pick-and-placed direct onto heatsinks – and it accepts standard lenses from Carclo. No PCB, metal-cored or otherwise, is required. The key to self-adhesive packaging for power devices is to spread heat
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This experiment turns on a LED when button A is pressed. The button is connected to the lowest bit of Port A (bit0). When the button is pressed, the line goes HIGH. This is called positive logic. The LED is connected to the lowest bit of Port B (Bit0). Any bit of any port can be
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Features 4-Switch Single Inductor Architecture Allows VIN Above, Below or Equal to VOUT Synchronous Switching: Up to 98% Efficiency Proprietary Peak-Buck Peak-Boost Current Mode Wide VIN Range: 4V to 60V Wide VOUT Range: 0V to 60V (51V LED) ±3% LED Current Accuracy 2000:1 External and 128:1 Internal PWM Dimming High Side PMOS PWM Switch Driver Integrated
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