Researchers from the Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory (SMILab), located in the Center for Advanced Research Computing, have developed a new strain sensor as a part of the Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) project. The new sensor, called the LEWIS-S, is easy to use, wireless, and can be offered at about 5% of the cost of […]
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Introduction The Utah State University (USU) Materials Physics Group (MPG) is interested in the performanceof Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) microcontrollers in space conditions. Microcontrollers are commonlyused on CubeSats, small relatively inexpensive satellites that are flown in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ataltitudes of ~160 km-2000 km. There is a large area of interest in COTS
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I. Introduction Today, the rising cost of energy and social trend of “going green” has put increasing pressure on commercial property owners to improve the efficiency of their investments. There is good reason for this, too. In the State of California, office buildings represent the single largest user of energy in the commercial sector (Efficiency
Overview The Pololu USB AVR programmer [http://www.pololu.com/product/1300] is a programmer for Atmel’s AVRmicrocontrollers and controller boards based on these MCUs, such as Pololu Orangutan robot controllers[http://www.pololu.com/category/8/robot-controllers] and the 3pi robot [http://www.pololu.com/product/975]. The programmer emulates an STK500 on a virtual serial port, making it compatible with standard AVR programming software. Two additional features help with building
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Introduction The Chipcon (now owned by Texas Instruments) CC2420 is a commercial radio chip that complies with the ZigBee wireless standard. We have CC2420DBK development kits available for your project. Each development kit comes with 2 development boards (2 radios). Each development board has a Chipcon CC2420 radio, an Atmel Atmega128L microcontroller, 32kB of external RAM, an
Welcome to my version of the LED reactive table! I was inspired by previous work using discrete LEDs, such as this one, but I figured it would be easier and more fun to use NeoPixels — programmable RGB LEDs that can be set to any color you want. The table consists of a large array of infrared emitters
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Program 6 ATtiny85/13A at the same time with this custom programmer board. Description Watch the video for a better tutorial. Attiny MCUs are very popular as it is quite easy to program them and using them instead of the atmega328 chip can reduce the cost of the overall project which requires less input/outputs. So let
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This project shows you how to build your own I2C DC motor drive using a DigiSpark Attiny85 plus Arduino motor shield. To test its operation, I made a small RC car which used an M5StickC & connected to Blynk App. to communicate with this drive via the I2C protocol. Please check my introduction video before getting started.
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The abbreviation of AVR Microcontroller is “Advanced Virtual RISC” and MCU is the short term of the Microcontroller. A Microcontroller is a tiny computer on a single chip and it is also termed as a control device. Similar to a computer, the Microcontroller is made with a variety of peripherals like input & output units, memory, Timers,
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Atmel Microcontroller Programming Atmel Microcontroller Programming – A microcontroller is actually a small and typically inexpensive computer. And you can use it one to perform necessary calculations and conclusions in the uncomplicated hardware framework. Such as, the LED panels generally present in subways can easily implement utilizing a microcontroller, including the type of Atmel. In this
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