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 lists over 16000 different line […]
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Microprocessors are so cheap these days. If only there were a way to program them up just as cheaply… *wavy dream-sequence lines* In this instructable, find out how to build up a complete AVR microprocessor toolchain: compiler, programmer software, programmer hardware, and some simple demos to get your feet wet. From there, it’s just a
Ghetto Programming: Getting started with AVR microprocessors on the cheap. Read More »
Programming AVRs is fun, but sometimes the manufacturers development environments make code maintenance a chore. If your looking for a free, cross platform, high quality piece of software for programming AVRs Eclipseis a good choice.Moving to an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), such as Eclipse is a logical step up from learning to program basic functions.
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If you’d like to test the waters of microcontroller programming, the new AVR Dragon by Atmel Corporation is a nifty, low-cost entry-level development tool. Unfortunately, right out of the box, the AVR Dragon is not the definitive answer for the beginner looking for an all-in-one solution. Rather, the AVR Dragon is a great microcontroller programmer
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Description This is a peripheral board with 4 relais, rated at 5A/250V each. The board has a ML10 output connector for connection with the AT2313 Project board. It has also 4 LED’s for indication which relais is switched on. Hardware The circuit is simple, it consists of no more then an ML10 connector, a ULN2803A,
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Description With this small board you can program most of the AVR ATTiny microcontrollers or you can build your projects to use it in a stand alone application. It can be powered with a 9V battery because it has 5V voltage regulator on it. The voltage regulator can give 1000mA current. The power to the
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The 4×4 LED Display was my first project with a two-layer circuitboard layout. The alignment was not 100% optimal, but sufficent. I wanted to make the board as small as possible, so the parts had to be stacked at some places. The square LED’s were painted black on the sides to keep the pixels sharp.
For those who are trying to make AVR kit at home, an AVR programmer which can be simple to make will be really useful, as it’ll avoid buying the programmer!! Here I’m giving a few webpage links on how to make a programmers yourself. – Here is a simple AVR serial programmer, works with PC
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Now it is the first time I am using an arduino board. Arduino mega 2560 is really a great product. The chip got a flash of 256KB, RAM of 8KB and EEPROM of 4KB. Also, the data sheet of Atmega2560 says that we can extend the RAM (by external) upto 64KB. Another most important feature
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What is Arduino Mega 2560: The arduino mega 2560 is a microcontroller board in line with the ATmega2560 (ATmega2560 datasheet). It’s having 54 digital input/output hooks (of which 14 can be used PWM results), 16 analogue inputs, 4 UARTs (Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter) to interface with rs232 serial port enabled devices including computers, a 16 MHz
