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Lighting Up Your World The Atmel AVR Microcontroller LED Chasing Project-Photoroom

Lighting Up Your World: The Atmel AVR Microcontroller LED Chasing Project

Building the LED chasing effect stands out as an engaging project for many beginners and enthusiasts in the embedded systems domain or hobbyist circles. This project entails leveraging both the Arduino IDE and Atmel AVR Studio to program the AVR ATMega168 microcontroller, thereby offering an opportunity to familiarize oneself with these widely recognized Integrated Development […]

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Clock-Free Arduino: Maximizing ATmega328 Performance

While most opt for a 16MHz oscillator in a DIY Arduino setup, it’s intriguing to discover that the ATmega328 can function without it. An Arduino typically comprises various elements such as a linear regulator, USB to Serial microcontroller, debug LED, power LED, reset button, RX & TX LED, crystal oscillator, among others. However, a minimal

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All resistances are 330 Ohms

Unleash the Power of AVR Hardware: Build Your Own Calculator with Keypad Input

In this lab, we will be preparing our AVR microcontroller hardware for initial programming and debugging. To get started, follow these steps: Construct the circuit as shown on your breadboard. This will allow us to interface our microcontroller with external components. For reference on pin connections and specifications, consult the microcontroller’s datasheet. The datasheet is

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MERCURY 2 – BREADBOARD FRIENDLY FPGA DEVELOPMENT BOARD

MERCURY 2 – BREADBOARD-FRIENDLY FPGA DEVELOPMENT BOARD

FPGAs are great and there are a number of cool things you can do with them. But as we come across more and more FPGA development boards, we realize that only a few of them are actually designed to be inserted into a breadboard. The new Mercury 2 development board by MicroNova is a breadboard-friendly Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA board packaged in a

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DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR TRANSFERRING A BREADBOARD PROTOTYPE TO CUSTOM PCB

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR TRANSFERRING A BREADBOARD PROTOTYPE TO CUSTOM PCB

In Sayanee’s Basu’s video, we can look at the design considerations in the process of taking a breadboard prototype to a custom PCB, from the microcontroller to the various subsystems, to the power, the bootloader, and even how to deal with faulty components. A breadboard can be useful for educational purposes, art projects, and even small

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Ghetto Development Environment

Ghetto Development Environment

A while back, I posted up a quick and dirty “el cheapo” method of getting started programming the Atmel AVR series chips: Ghetto Programmer (version 1.0) Since then, I’ve vamped, re-vamped, and otherwise improved my setup. Thought it’d be nice to document it. The goal was to get a flexible, compact, portable, use-anywhere, AVR-based microcontroller prototyping

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