HD44780 based LCD displays are very popular for embedded projects because they are cheap, easy to interface, can display characters, consume power lot less than seven-segment displays, and most of the present day compilers have in-built library routines for them. However, the only disadvantage is that they require at least 6 I/O pins of microcontroller. […]
Serial LCDs you can make your own using PIC12F683 Read More »
Not long ago I saw this link for a 3310 temp probe. Now ive played with other LCD’s lots, but this one caught my attention because of the low power requirements (It runs from a single CR2032 Motherboard battery). I built the Temp probe as shown on the site and it worked well. I had
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Pulsing Hubby Detector This project uses an RF receiver module to trigger a pulsing LED Heart when the transmitter comes within range. I made this for my fiance for Valentine’s Day this year. I have yet to fully test the range, as I haven’t actually taken the transmitter out of our apartment building since I
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This time I’m starting off with a device I already built, unfortunately there won’t be any photos from the actual build, just a quick article on how I imagined it and how it works. A short story about how the whole thing started My uncle has a nice little place at the countryside at about
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Introduction There are varieties of digital temperature logger projects available online based on different microcontrollers. The one I am going to talk about is based on a Microchip’s 8-pin microcontroller, PIC12F683. It reads temperature values from a DS1820 digital sensor and stores in its internal EEPROM. PIC12F683 has 256 bytes of internal EEPROM and we
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I had a few multicolor LEDs laying around and wanted to whip up a color-blending nightlight. I built 2 devices, each in its own 20 pin DIP socket without soldering. A 3-pin header is included so I can reprogram the light on-the-fly if desired. On my first build, I used wire-wrap. The next one used
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Description This project uses a MicrochipPIC microcontroller, a serial EEPROM and a thermistor to create a temperature recorder. Performance The temperature is measured and stored at user programmable intervals; this can be from 1 second to 256 seconds. The time interval is set by programming it and the start time into the EEPROM. Most of
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LED fireflies prototype hello all, heres an attempt i made at something like an LED throwie..the problem (for me) with led throwies is that they just consume their battery, and produce light.. but they could be better at doing both.. first you have to accept the premise that your willing to spend a bit more
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Description Since I published the original RGB LED driver (photo right) I’ve had many enquiries from people asking how they could make the original board work with more LEDs. I’d already made a couple of custom boards up for myself, so I finally decided it was time to put together one for the website. The
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