View allAll Photos Tagged microcontroller
Ingredient for a simple target board: Perfboard, 6-pin DIP header, optional battery box, and two types of 20-pin socket: low cost and zero insertion force.
Photo taken to accompany short article on working with AVR microcontrollers, and making minimalist target boards for programming them.
Detail of a single chip calculator IC from 1971, arguably one of the first microprocessors or microcontrollers having a RISC instruction set in ROM and with RAM. This complex IC was drawn by hand on Mylar film and photo-reduced 400X. Calculators became the largest market for ICs by the mid 1970s.
Dorkbot Bristol, December 2008: Richard's Arduino controlling a pair of micro servos (intended for radio-controlled aircraft) as a walking robot. It's simply two servos linked together with cable ties, plus some bent wire for legs. The program in the Arduino sends pulses to the servos that make them walk.
Exploring micro-controllers with the Arduino NG development system. Seen here running in standalone mode with a 9v battery. Arduino makes embedded programming fun and easy by bringing together a clean and simple hardware and software development environment.
Here, I'm messing with reading analog input from a 10k potentiometer and PWM (pulse width modulation) of leds to produce variable brightness.
Link to my RFID tagged blog entries, with video of the setup above in action: stevenandsarah.com/category/rfid/
www.arduino.cc/ - "Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, itself built on Processing."
Microchip announced a new series within its high-performance PIC32MZ family of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) that features an integrated hardware floating point unit (FPU) for high performance and lower latency in intensive single and double-precision math applications. This new 48-member PIC32MZ EF series also offers a 12-bit, 18 MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for a wide array of high-speed, wide-bandwidth applications. Additionally, the PIC32MZ EF supports an extensive DSP instruction set. This combination of DSP instructions, a double-precision FPU and a high-speed ADC improves code density, decreases latency and accelerates performance in process-intensive applications. For an overview of the PIC32MZ family, please visit: www.microchip.com/PIC32MZ-091415a
JCNC 1v01 - CNC G-Code Viewer and GRBL PC Terminal Software www.jtronics.de/software/jcnc-cnc-steuerung.html
Microchip announced a new family of PIC32MX3/4 microcontrollers (MCUs) in 64/16 KB, 256/64 KB and 512/128 KB Flash/Ram configurations. These new MCUs are coupled with comprehensive software and tools from Microchip for designs in connectivity, graphics, digital audio and general-purpose embedded control. The MCUs are an expansion to the popular PIC32MX3/4 series of high-performance 32-bit microcontrollers. They offer higher RAM memory options and higher integration of peripherals at a lower cost. The PIC32MX3/4 feature 28 x 10-bit ADCs and 5 UARTS, 105 DMIPS performance, serial peripherals, graphic-display, capacitive-touch, connectivity and digital audio support. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/EPAQ
Jeremie, the brains behind the SB-FireFly, has been hard at work on some hacks for it that incorporate a Piezo buzzer. Get the details here.
JCNC - CNC G-Code Viewer and GRBL PC Terminal Software www.jtronics.de/software/jcnc-cnc-steuerung.html
Picture of the Arduino made out of the faces of the members of the Arduino Playground group on LinkedIn.
Read more about the picture at www.mosaicyourself.com/ArduinoFaces
This was intel's first 8-bit microcontroller, introduced in 1976. In addition to the microprocessor, this chip featured about 1K of EPROM memory - memory that could be set at the factory and remained permanent. If necessary, the developers could erase it by exposure to UV light then re-use it. For this purpose, the package incorporates a crystal lens over the chip, making the whole affair visible to the camera.
This macro photo was taken by holding an 18-55 zoom lens backward in front of the camera body. It was difficult to get good focus but I think this shot actually resolves some of the traces and memory cells.
BLIFNAR. Blinky Bug. LED-thingy. These all describe the SB-Firefly. This coin-cell powered microcontroller runs three LEDs through button selectable light blinking sequences with smooth transitions. Use the Firefly to teach soldering, have a late night blinky party, or hack into your own creation! This tiny application board comes with everything you need for a super small microcontroller project, battery included!
Microchip announced the industry’s most comprehensive 32-bit microcontroller firmware development framework—MPLAB® Harmony. This framework is the first to integrate the licensing, resale and support of both Microchip and third-party middleware, drivers, libraries and real-time operating systems. Currently, Harmony includes third-party offerings from Interniche, freeRTOS, wolfSSL and OpenRTOS, with many more on the way. The result is that developers can greatly simplify their PIC32 MCU code development process by reducing common integration bugs, thus accelerating time to market. For more info, visit www.microchip.com/get/V2PJ.
This is the schematic (part 1, microprocessor ) of my simple circuit to display music on a VGA monitor like on an oscilloscope.
For more details go to :
Electronic Pornography - The "business side" of my Peak Electronics ESR60 Capacitor Analyser
People who are clever at programming microcontrollers - in this case a PIC can really make them sing and dance and jump through hoops.
This instrument is a very good example of that skill (or is it art?!)
I'm also becoming increasingly impressed with the little Canon Powershot SX260 camera I used to take this picture.
Hand held macro zoom built-in flash cropped in Paintshop Pro 5 -simples!
The manufacturer has recently (Jan 2014) upgraded the firmware and probe set at a very reasonable cost. One little gripe I had with the operating convenience of this unit was that sometimes three hands were required - two to hold the test leads onto the component, and a third to operate the "test" button. This has been addressed with the later version of the firmware. The company also turned the unit around extremely quickly, and were an absolute pleasure to deal with.
Microchip expanded its eXtreme Low Power (XLP) PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio. Features of the new PIC24F “GB4” family include an integrated hardware crypto engine with both OTP and Key RAM options for secure key storage, up to 256 KB of Flash memory and a direct drive for segmented LCD displays, in 64-, 100- or 121-pin packages. Dual-partition Flash with Live Update capability allows the devices to hold two independent software applications, and permits the simultaneous programming of one partition while executing application code from the other. These advanced features make the PIC24F “GB4” family ideal for designers of industrial, computer, medical/fitness and portable applications that require secure data transfer and storage, and a long battery life. To learn more about Microchip’s PIC24F “GB4” family of MCUs, visit www.microchip.com/PIC24FJ256GB410-082415a.
LOTS of bypassing. tantalum caps (orange) paralleled with .1uF (blue).
this is closely following the manuf recommended layout. I hope it was worth all this extra effort ;)
Sometimes we need to extend or add more I/O ports to our microcontroller based project; the question is how fast the response we need for these new I/O ports. Because usually we only have a limited I/O port left than the logical choice is to use the serial data transfer method; which usually only required maximum one to four ports for doing the data transfer.
Currently there is few type of modern embedded system serial data transfer interface widely supported by most of the chip’s manufactures such as I2C (read as I square C), SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface), 1-Wire (One Wire), Controller Area Network (CAN), USB (Universal Serial Bus) and the RS-232 families (RS-423, RS-422 and RS-485).
Microchip's Mobile Product Selector application for iPhone®, iPad® and Android™ smart phones and tablets, as well as a version of its Web site for mobile browsers, are all available today at the following links…
Apple® Application Available at App Store: itunes.apple.com/us/app/microchip-mobile-product-selector...
Android Application Available at Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microchip.andri...
Mobile Web Site Available Online: www.microchip.com/mobile
The low-cost, low pin count PIC12LF1552 is Microchip’s smallest (2x3 mm UDFN package) and lowest-cost PIC® MCU with hardware I2C™ support, and includes a four channel 10-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with hardware Capacitive Voltage Divider (CVD) support for capacitive touch sensing. Additionally, this new MCU features 3.5 KB Flash program memory, 256 Bytes RAM, a 32 MHz internal oscillator, low-voltage operation from 1.8V to 3.6V, and low power consumption for active and sleep currents of 50 µA/MHz and 20 nA, respectively. For more info visit, www.microchip.com/get/LFWT
The latest Microchip TCP/IP Stack, downloadable from www.microchip.com/tcpip, includes an SSL module, which enables secure, encrypted communications between two nodes on an unsecured network. It supports both client and server functionality, while providing fast 128-bit ARCFOUR encryption for bulk data transfers.