Smart Button This is a button a little bit smarter. (Microcontrollers and coffee, who doesn’t like) I i’m using it to fill my Coffeemaker with water. This way its a little bit more fun and i always get the same amount of water. Its a simple project, and it’s a good excuse to play with a PIC10F, […]
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Here are the technical specifications: LCD resolution: 128 x 64 pixels LCD manufacturer: DisplayTech. LCD model 1: 64128COG-FA-BC (no backlight) LCD model 2: 64128G-FC-BW-3 (white LED backlight) On-glass lcd controller KS0713, with 30 pins connector. Very low power operation (less than 1mA @3V) Fast serial interface (only 8 wires needed) Molex miniature connector. LCD: dimensions:
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The principle advantages of LED lighting are its long life, which can be as long as 60,000 hours, or 20 years, and inherent energy efficiency. LED streetlights have been shown to use 15% of the energy and give off less heat, while generating more light per watt. LEDs do not contain toxic chemicals such as
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Description This project combines a GPS receiver module, a MicrochipPIC microcontroller and a Secure Digital memory card to make a GPS data logger. With a large capacity and reasonably long battery life it is a very useful device for logging GPS position for example for mapping with OpenStreetMap. In this picture the complete GPS data
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Most projects include at least one LED. Before soldering the LED, how can you determine if the color and brightness meets your needs? After that, how do you calculate the correct value resistor? Many years ago, I built a handy compact LED testing tool based on the LM317L adjustable current regulator. (You’ll definitely want to
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A 12hr/24hr LED Clock with display control, uses a microcontroller PIC 16F84A or 16F628A and a few parts. (August 25, 2009) This LED clock may not be the easiest to build but surely it is the one with fewer parts that you can find, for that reason I call it “The ANP LED Clock”. (ANP
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Description This neat little circuit provides 8 LEDs directly driven from the PIC along with a single mode control switch. The firmware elsewhere on this page drives the LEDs with a 5 bit PWM signal providing each of the 8 LED channels with four levels of intensity; off, dim, mid, bright. A number of sequences
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It is necessary to understand basic I/O operations of PIC18F4550 before dealing with its complexities. This article presents a way to take simple output from a PIC microcontroller. This learning would also help in interfacing of external devices with the controller. Here the output from the microcontroller is taken on a set of LEDs which
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How to choose a MicroController It used to be that the number of different microcontroller chips available to the hobbyist was pretty limited. You got to use whatever you could manage to buy from the mail-order chip dealer, and that narrowed down the choice to a small number of chips. But times have changed. Digikey
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The exterior conceals new technology behind the bezels that make possible such features as adaptive beams and LED matrix beams, for example. Often, each LED has its own lens that is held by a fixture, and light guides with small saw-tooth structures to direct the light to the road and to the external viewer are
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