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Microchip Technology partnered with Cymbet Corporation to provide the world’s first customizable energy harvesting application development kit—the XLP 16-bit Energy Harvesting Development Kit. This kit includes a modular development board populated with the PIC24F16KA102 microcontroller—featuring eXtreme Low Power—and the capability to add PICtail™ daughter boards for the rapid evaluation of a wide variety of system functions, including ZigBee® and proprietary wireless connectivity, and SD memory cards. The PIC® microcontroller’s eXtreme Low Power technology allows users to gain the longest possible operation from the included Cymbet EnerChip™ EH Eval-08 Energy Harvesting Board, which harvests solar energy that is then stored in the EnerChip solid-state, rechargeable energy-storage devices. For more information, visit: www.microchip.com/energyharvesting

Microchip’s 16/32-bit PIC® MCU Accessory Development Platform for iPod and iPhone accelerates the design of accessory products by providing an easy-to-use, high- performance reference design with complete withwith a programmable user interface and charging capabilities. This platform boasts a complementary set of peripheral functions, including pushbutton switches, LEDs, potentiometer, LCD display, and temperature sensor. Microchip’s software library facilitates identification, authentication and all communication protocols, including a simple API and bootloading capability.

For more details have a look at the project Website.

alan-parekh.com/projects/gear-clock/

Microchip announced from EE Live! and the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose the PIC16(L)F170X and PIC16(L)F171X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), which combine a rich set of intelligent analog and core independent peripherals, along with cost-effective pricing and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology. Available in 14-, 20-, 28-, and 40/44-pin packages, the 11-member PIC16F170X/171X family of MCUs integrates two Op Amps to drive analog control loops, sensor amplification and basic signal conditioning, while reducing system cost and board space. These new devices also offer built-in Zero Cross Detect (ZCD) to simplify TRIAC control and minimize the EMI caused by switching transients. Additionally, these are the first PIC16 MCUs with Peripheral Pin Select, a pin-mapping feature that gives designers the flexibility to designate the pinout of many peripheral functions. The PIC16F170X/171X are general-purpose MCUs that are ideal for a broad range of applications, such as consumer (home appliances, power tools, electric razors), portable medical (blood-pressure meters, blood-glucose meters, pedometers), LED lighting, battery charging, power supplies and motor control. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/H4FJ and www.microchip.com/get/4FJP

Talks and performances by people doing strange things with electricity

Fri 23 March 2012, 6.30-10pm with interval at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield.

 

Dorkbot is a meeting of people interested in electric/electronic art in the broadest sense; robotics, kinetic art, microcontrollers, interactive art, algorithmic music, net.art... The only real conditions are that it is a bit strange and involves electricity in some way. It is really defined by whoever turns up, be it engineers who want to be artists, artists who want to be engineers, or the otherwise confused.

 

This MEGADORK event features a cabaret of talks and performances from among the UK's dorkiest, to entertain and amaze:

 

Paul Granjon - A strange performance from the world renowned self-styled robot artist.

www.zprod.org/

 

Patrick Tresset - Talks about his drawing robot Paul (on show as part of the Alan Turing: Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition).

www.aikon-gold.com/

 

Daniel Jones and James Bulley - talking about generating live music from patterns of weather.

www.variable4.org.uk/about/intro

 

Sarah and Jenny Angliss - playing robot music from past futures.

spacedog.biz

 

Sergi Jorda - talks about the Reactable tangible tabletop music playground (which you'll be able to try out at the Central Library Saturday 24 March)

www.reactable.com/

 

Dan Stowell - Demonstrates his use of the Risset illusion in techno music.

www.mcld.co.uk/

 

Silicone Bake - Live coded pop songs about love, death and counterfeit watches, where all lyrics are taken from spam emails.

 

Megadork is curated by Alex McLean.

 

Dorkbot started in New York, spread to London, and now dozens of cities around the world, including several active UK chapters; Sheffield, Bristol, Anglia, Newcastle, Cardiff and Alba (Scotland). Find out more at: www.dorkbot.org

 

Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring

A Festival of Art, Science and Technology

22-24 March

Sheffield UK

 

www.lovebytes.org.uk

For more details have a look at the project Website.

alan-parekh.com/projects/gear-clock/

This is a snapshop of a TV/VGA monitor displaying the output at rest (no audio input) of my simple circuit to display music on a VGA monitor like on an oscilloscope.

For more details go to :

www.5volt.eu

This is a development board made by Olimex for 8-pin AVR microcontrollers. Note the 10-pin ISP interface.

 

Photo taken to accompany short article on working with AVR microcontrollers, and making minimalist target boards for programming them.

Microchip announced the expansion of its Low Power PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio. Features of the new PIC24F “GB6” family include up to 1 MB of Flash memory with Error Correction Code (ECC) and 32 KB of RAM, making it the first 16-bit MCU in Microchip’s portfolio to offer such a large memory size. Also featuring dual-partition Flash with Live Update capability, these devices can hold two independent software applications, permitting the simultaneous programming of one partition while executing application code from the other. This powerful combination of features makes the PIC24F “GB6” family ideal for industrial, computer, medical/fitness and portable applications that require a long battery life, and data transfer and storage without the need of external memory, such as electricity metering, HVAC control, fingerprint scanners and gaming. For more information of the GB6 family, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC24FGB6-112315a

Microchip Technology's 8-bit PIC18F87J72 microcontroller (MCU) family for single-phase, multi-function smart-metering and energy-monitoring applications.

The 8-digit LED display (with 8 red/green LEDs and 8 buttons) shows the X,Y coordinates of the plotter. The plotter is connected via the MAX232A chip on the solderless breadboard.

Shrimp low cost microcontroller kit I got from Cefn Hoile at OSHcamp :-) shrimping.it/blog/

Die shot of NEC D8749HD that is EPROM-microcontroller in MCS-48 series.

The Digilent I/O Explorer USB is a USB peripheral device that allows programmatic access from a personal computer to various external Input/Output (I/O) devices.

 

The I/O Explorer provides a number of I/O devices on the board itself, as well as RC servo connectors, and Digilent Pmod connectors that allow access to devices external to the I/O Explorer.

 

In addition to its use as a dedicated USB peripheral device, the I/O Explorer can also be used as a microcontroller development board. It features two Atmel® AVR microcontrollers, one having USB device capability.

 

store.digilentinc.com/i-o-explorer-usb-based-on-avr-micro...

Hard drive clock.

Clock controller and illuminated buttons board are connected.

A Propeller microcontroller with bit-banging 12 Mb/s USB host and tiny Bluetooth stack. The only hardware is a $2 USB Bluetooth dongle, attached directly to the Propeller's I/O pins.

 

Blog post at:

micah.navi.cx/2010/04/embedded-bluetooth-for-2/

 

Forum thread:

forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=25&p=1&...

 

Lenore demonstrates the alphanumeric persistence of vision display.

 

Learn how to make it here.

Homemade Sprinkler or Universal Timer

Test circuit with programmer attached.

Microchip Technology's low pin-count 16-bit eXtreme Low Power (XLP) PIC24F32KA304 MCUs feature on-chip 12-bit ADC, EEPROM, intelligent mTouch™ capacitive sensing, and the capability to run from a 5V supply. The MCUs feature extremely low sleep currents down to 20 nA, for which all XLP PIC MCUs are known.

Building the organ controller including pedalboard and bench. Photos were taken to document the progress of my B4 Controller project. The goal of the project was to build a MIDI Organ Controller with the look-and-feel of the "real thing" for playing Native Instruments' B4.

Five minute project: Chip Earrings.

 

Read more about this project here.

My friend wanted something he could install in his truck that would make it so his taillights would flash a couple times when he stepped on the brake, so they'd be more attention grabbing. Since that sounded like something I could make, I made one for his Christmas present.

This was taken using his present to me, a new lightbox. It seems there's perhaps a little more to using one of these than I previously thought.

Power adaptors to operate the microcontroller at 3.3V (top) or 5V (bottom). In both cases the 3.3V regulator and polyfuse on Calunium is omitted. By inserting one of the adaptors onto the auxillary power connector the voltage at which the microcontroller operates is easily selected. Power is supplied via the USB or FTDI connectors.

 

I built these so that I could power the board via USB for development and then fit a shield containing a boost regulator for battery powered operation. The combination of the right-angled connector on the stripboard and the polarized Molex connector on the PCB prevents the adaptor from being inserted in reverse (but not misaligned).

Mating the microcontroller to the LED display, making sure where everything lines up.

  

Part of the high-tech holiday decorations project.

Building a bulbdial clock. Read more about this project here.

Block Diagram of Microchip's 32-bit PIC32 "MX1" and "MX2" Microcontrollers

It's a good idea to get familiar with schematic, before start assembling.

From 1971. It used Nixie tubes for the display, Four digit with a key to shift the display to the other four. Unusual since it used a gold plated pad and stylus rather than keys. The price new was equivalent to $750 today.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor

www.flickr.com/photos/jamo_spingal/5830130430/in/set-7215...

www.flickr.com/photos/jamo_spingal/5830130430/in/set-7215...

The uC32 features a USB serial port interface for connection to the IDE and can be powered via USB or an external power supply. The board takes advantage of the powerful PIC32MX340F512 microcontroller, which features a 32-bit MIPS processor core running at 80 MHz, 512K of Flash program memory, and 32K of SRAM data memory.

 

The uC32 can be programmed using MPIDE, which supports PIC32. It contains everything needed to start developing embedded applications. In addition, the uC32 is fully compatible with the advanced Microchip MPLAB® IDE and the PICkit3 in-system programmer/debugger.

 

store.digilentinc.com/chipkit-uc32-basic-microcontroller-...

Microchip's 16-bit dsPIC33 and PIC24 “E” Digital Signal Controller and microcontroller families.

In this project design mp3 player. This player is based on a BU9458KV decoder, and a PIC18F452 microcontroller.

 

An Arduino microcontroller board driving eight solenoids via a ULN2803 driver chip. The solenoids tap out a rhythm under the control of the Arduino.

People have been asking me to actually talk about my feelings. There is a consensus that I don't talk about what I feel. Often you'll just hear me say "That's cool" and "Awesome" or "Sucks" and "Not Cool."

 

So let me say this, In the photo above, I feel poetry. I feel something like bpNicohols and Christian Bok. More than anything else I feel Jeff Knight's poem 'Peyote'. I don't feel Jeff's poem visually here, I feel it in what will become of this arduino board.

 

It will become the Living Day. And to quote Jeff's poem:

 

"Raindrops hit the windshield and sliver up the right.

 

Sometimes the raindrops spell words in languages that I have forgotten how to read.

 

It keeps running thru my mind that I should have brought my camera. I could capture all these drops all these words. I could take them home, I could study them later. I could learn to decode the complicated hieroglyphics of water on glass. But its not such a great idea.

There Isn't enough film in the world.

 

The hiss of the tires in the rainy dessert night smells like... coffee."

 

What inspires me to feel generally fits within two categories: Jazz or Poetry. Rarely both.

 

This microcontroller that I was working on, at this exact moment, was poetry.

 

To give you an idea of what my eyes see as Jazz: At a bus stop on 22nd and Walnut, Philadelphia, there is a row of residential buildings. From that bus stop, looking straight ahead at the sides of all these houses, jazz lives in the arrangement of the windows to rooftops places in the hands of time's mismatched architects and construction crew's need for conformity and price. It is, to me, the closest thing I have ever seen to John Coltrane's Ascension.

 

Some Dave Brubek's recording Impressions of Japan has most Center City's Spruce street in Philadelphia covered (when it is sunny and not too hot.)

 

On 13th and Walnut, sitting on the stoop and looking up to right at the skyline, The transitional period of Miles Davis's outward perception between "Kind of Blue" to "Live Evil" exist, depending on the time of day and cloud position. It is a feeling of the street and the feeling of it passing thru to the inside of me.

 

So, dear consensus, for the moment until I can better explain 'my feelings' you are just gonna have to live with Jazz and Poetry.

 

(link to Jeff Knight Poem: www.austinslam.com/media/Peyote-Jeff_Knight.mp3

 

DCF-Empfangsmodul DCF1

Pollin Best.Nr.: 810054

 

Technische Daten:

- Betriebsspannung 1,2...3,5V

- Stromaufnahme < 90uA

- Empfangsfrequenz 77,5 kHz

Microchip announced from EE Live! and the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose the PIC16(L)F170X and PIC16(L)F171X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), which combine a rich set of intelligent analog and core independent peripherals, along with cost-effective pricing and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology. Available in 14-, 20-, 28-, and 40/44-pin packages, the 11-member PIC16F170X/171X family of MCUs integrates two Op Amps to drive analog control loops, sensor amplification and basic signal conditioning, while reducing system cost and board space. These new devices also offer built-in Zero Cross Detect (ZCD) to simplify TRIAC control and minimize the EMI caused by switching transients. Additionally, these are the first PIC16 MCUs with Peripheral Pin Select, a pin-mapping feature that gives designers the flexibility to designate the pinout of many peripheral functions. The PIC16F170X/171X are general-purpose MCUs that are ideal for a broad range of applications, such as consumer (home appliances, power tools, electric razors), portable medical (blood-pressure meters, blood-glucose meters, pedometers), LED lighting, battery charging, power supplies and motor control. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/H4FJ and www.microchip.com/get/4FJP

Version 1.1 of our open-source ATmegaXX8 AVR development target board. Read more about this project and download the design files here.

 

Building a bulbdial clock. Read more about this project here.

My BASIC Stamp bench setup. RS232 that goes to a serial-to-USB adapter connected to the iMac G5, Radio Shack 9V 300mA "battery eliminator" for power, and parts, parts, and more parts.

 

I'm using MacBS2 as the development environment and chip programmer, and the kit is the bundle sold through Radio Shack.

Microchip Technology's RE46C190 3V photo smoke-detector IC with horn driver and boost regulator. The world’s first smoke-detector IC to offer low-voltage operation with programmable calibration and operating modes, the RE46C190 IC enables the desired operating modes to be selected and calibrated during manufacturing. This simplifies smoke-detector design and manufacturing, and reduces component count, and cost. Additionally, the IC’s low operating current of 8 microamperes typical enables up to 10 years of operation from a single Lithium battery. Two Alkaline batteries may also be used to power the RE46C190.

Pixel VGA, version 1 (Floor Cluster) - Garnet Hertz

 

Two dozen old computer monitors occupy the center of a gallery floor in a cluster facing the wall. Each screen is controlled with custom electronics to create pulsating and strobing patterns, casting a colored wash across the darkened gallery.

 

Dimensions: Variable (approx 3m x 3m). VGA monitors, custom electronics. 2011.

 

More project information: conceptlab.com/pixel/

Trying out some xmegas. Read more here.

 

These are dev boards fro Boston Android, btw.

Component placement map.

We developed a music player based on the Arduino Lilypad microcontroller board. The system plays a kids song with the using the acccelrometer. Five different directions represent the the notes C, D, E, F, G which are used to play little songs. We programmed the LEDs such that they indicate the flow of the melody. The sample video plays the beginning of "Hänschen Klein" [Wikpedia says: "Hänschen klein" is a traditional German folk song and children's song originating in the Biedermeier period of the 19th century. The title translates to English as "Little Hans". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hänschen_klein] Find the video of the system in action unter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2INT71RGfI

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