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Writing Your First Program with PIC Microcontroller and Setting up Configuration Bits

Writing Your First Program with PIC Microcontroller and Setting up Configuration Bits

This is the second tutorial of our PIC Tutorial Series. In our previous tutorial Getting started with PIC Microcontroller: Introduction to PIC and MPLABX, we learnt the basic stuff about our PIC microcontroller, we also installed the required software and purchased a new PicKit 3 programmer which we will be soon using. Now we are

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Theory of LED dot matrix display

Basics of LED dot matrix display. Part 1. Theory using pic microcontoller

LED dot matrices are very popular means of displaying information as it allows both static and animated text and images. Perhaps, you have encountered them at gas stations displaying the gas prices, or in the public places and alongside highways, displaying advertisements on large dot matrix panels. In this experiment, we will discuss about the

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Cree’s most powerful 5mm LED

Cree’s most powerful 5mm LED

Cree has crammed up to 2,250 lm capability into a 5x5mm LED – achieved at 19W. The LED is called XHP50, the first in a family of XHP lighting LEDs. “At its maximum current, the XHP50 provides twice the light output of the industry’s brightest single-die LED, the XM-L2 LED, at a similar lumens per

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