After testing many systems development for PIC and AVR microcontrollers, none satisfy me. So I created this system with breadboard that has satisfied me. Step 1: More space free In this development system, I put two protoboards turned 180 degrees from each other. The space that is left to just enough space to insert a […]
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after making a usbtiny isp programmer and using it for 6 months, i was looking at making another one for carrying around. i like the simplicy of the usbtiny isp design but would like to make it even smaller and take less parts. one thing in the original design that i want to change is
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This instructable will show you how to interface a 16-key keypad to your AVR microcontroller and read the key when a key is pressed. I’ll introduce the keypad first, then the 74HC922 16-key decoder IC as a pin-saving mechanism, then finally how to take the data and massage it so that you get the correct
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What do you do with an old phone, a microcontroller and lots of time? You hook the old phone’s LCD screen to the computer USB of course! In this project we’re going to communicate with a Nokia 3310 LCD display over USB! How are we going to do that? We’re going to connect the LCD
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The game Mastermind has been around a long time, and I remember getting a board version with colored pegs when I was a kid. I love this game, as it is solvable simply by pure logic. One player (or a computer/microcontroller) chooses a sequence of colors from a pool of available colors and then the
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Yet another Portal-related instructable , but Different ! This one shows you how to : 1)Build a very cheap device that plays an 8-bit version of Still Alive from Portal 2)On the same hardware , but with a different chip , play the “radio tune” Here are both projects , in the same video (I
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Montrose, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2009 Highlighting how a single USB Client device can function on three completely different Host architectures, the standards organization governing StackableUSB announces the release of the PIC24 and PIC32 Host microcontrollers, the third distinctive architecture to support Host-side StackableUSB. Micro/sys, a single board computer manufacturer and member of the standards
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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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Hampton, VA (PRWEB) June 3, 2010 Reliable tagging and tracking of value assets is a critical function for many businesses, especially those with assets requiring security provisions or environmental monitoring. The active RFID tags on these assets are customarily powered by batteries — however, not all applications allow for periodic exchange of hundreds or thousands
Portland, OR (PRWEB) June 27, 2004 EmINENT Microsystems Inc. today announced Embedded Software Framework support for the AVR® 8-Bit RISC family of processors from Atmel Corporation. The Embedded Software Framework software suite includes ESF RTOS a simple, powerful, and easily customizable, object-oriented real-time operating system, ESF Base an OS and platform independent data structure, algorithm
