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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.
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.
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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.
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An Arduino microcontroller board driving eight solenoids via a ULN2803 driver chip. The solenoids tap out a rhythm under the control of the Arduino.
Microchip's Accessory Development Starter Kits for Android™ enable accessory development for Google’s Android platform. Specifically, Android versions 2.3.4 and 3.1 and later include a new framework that allows apps to communicate directly with an accessory connected to a smartphone or tablet, via USB. The kits consist of a development board and a software library, available via free download from www.microchip.com/android, which enable the fast and easy development of Android smartphone and tablet accessories based on Microchip’s large portfolio of 16-bit and 32-bit PIC® microcontrollers. These microcontrollers feature industry-leading performance, integrated connectivity and eXtreme Low Power technology for the industry’s lowest power consumption in both sleep and active modes.
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.
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.
Have you ever thought that most of our perception about the robot is based on the Hollywood movie! The well-known 3CPO and R2D2 from Star Wars until the little cute garbage compacting robot named WALL-E; all of these machines are example of our dreams or should I say our quest to what we all think about the robot should be. Although the robot that we are going to build here is still far away from the technologies shown on those movies but at least it will give you an introductory to the robotics world. for more information please visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=983
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
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 announced from Electronica in Germany an expansion of its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, with the peripheral-rich, low-pin count PIC16(L)F161X family. These new MCUs introduce and expand the offering of Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIP), which were designed to reduce interrupt latency, lower-power consumption and increase system efficiency, and safety, while minimizing design time and effort. These peripherals are designed to reduce system complexity by eliminating the need for additional code and external components. Hardware-based peripherals offload timing-critical and core-intensive functions from the CPU, allowing it to focus on other critical tasks within the system. For more ino, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC16_LF161X-Family-Product-Page-111114a
I'm bringing up the gen2 circuit board.
This should be the sort of thing that a qualified electrical engineer would whip out in a matter of minutes.
But, I'm a programmer who likes to mess around with technology, so things sometimes take a little longer than they ought to.
Or I connect power to ground and ground to power. I do that sometimes, too.
But now, I can program this board to do stuff, once I get the LEDs all soldered up.
Soon, you will start seeing this board in my light art. :)
I have been working on it. First I got it to display simple pattern and then display text.
The people at MAKE blogged my little escapade. I clearly must make a gift for them. :)
2 drop collision into a water/xanthan gum mix. Colours come from a few drops of ink into both the wine glass and the drop reservoir. I am also using a light blue gel on the flash which is behind a piece of 5mm frosted glass.
Taken using the Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens.
Settings:
Shutter: 1/200
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/16
Speedlite: 1/16
Timings: D1-50, P1-110, D2-12, CD-200
I have been building projects using PIC microcontrollers for years. This is one of my best devices. This is used during a speech in a Toastmasters club to inform the speaker of their time remaining. Green LEDs indicate they have spoken long enough, red means time is up, and yellow is halfway in-between. All of the LEDs are colored, even though some appear clear in the photo. The control panel and LCD display offer great flexibility in how the timer operates.
As the electronics hobbyist one of knowledge that we have to be familiar with is how to make our own printed circuit board (PCB). Making our own simple single side PCB actually is not require a sophisticated technique and technology as you might think, instead most of the required materials is already available at your home. For more information please visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=1526
The robot electrical system: 4 H-bridge motor controllers, 2 "Spike" relays, Robot Controller (microcontroller)
Microchip Technology's 8-bit PIC18F47J13 microcontroller (MCU) is the industry's first MCU to feature 128 KB Flash program memory in a 28-pin package. Also available in a 44-pin package, the PIC18F47J13 MCU features XLP technology for eXtreme Low Power consumption and mTouch™ capability for implementing capacitive touch sensing user interfaces.
The front view shows the cylindrical lens, made from a cut-off section of a WH Smith magnifying ruler. A red Post Office elastic band holds some black foam on, top and bottom, to prevent light from entering the gap behind the lens.
The Rainbow Lighter V2.2 completed, it took several evenings to get it all put together. I grabbed an Altoids tin from my bits'n'pieces supply bag for the 9-volt battery holder.
There is a piece of 1mm black foam (neoprene) attached to the back of the circuit board. The Altoids tin attaches to the foam with a piece of velcro to hold it in place.
Thanks to El Endemoniau for inspiring me to create my own Cr@p Lighter.
My version is using tri-color (manually controlled) LEDs so each individual LED is three LEDs combined. Each one can be lit up to be red, green, or blue...the cool part being that you can then generate different colors using combinations of these three colors. For example, red & green = yellow, green & blue = cyan.
The next step is to develop software for the AVR microcontroller so I can display patterns and text. ;-)
The servo motor is used widely in model hobbyist such as airplane R/C model for moving the rudder, ailerons, elevators and acceleration control or in the car R/C model for steering and acceleration control. In this tutorial we will learn how to control the servo motor as well as the simple close loop control algorithm for this servo motor. For Further information please visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=771
expanded its certified Full-Speed USB 2.0 Device PIC® microcontroller portfolio with three new Enhanced Midrange 8-bit families comprising 15 scalable MCUs ranging from 14 to 100 pins with up to 128 KB of Flash. All feature internal clock sources with the 0.25% clock accuracy necessary for USB communication, which saves up to $0.15 by eliminating the need for an external crystal. Additionally, all three families are eXtreme Low Power compliant, with power consumption down to 35 µA/MHz Active and 20 nA in Sleep mode. For more information, visit: www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/technology/usb/produc...
This is a picture of the ' magic wand clock' you can read about at www.instructables.com/id/E50R4QXZAOEWP86MXK/ .
This is a persistence of vision project.
The Microchip Bluetooth® Evaluation Kit includes CandleDragon, Inc.’s dotstack™ demonstration Bluetooth Stack. The kit provides an easy, cost-effective and flexible add-on for embedded evaluation and development using many 16/32-bit PIC® microcontrollers or dsPIC® digital signal controllers (DSCs). To speed development and further reduce costs, the Microchip Bluetooth Kit works with the Company’s existing tools. For more information visit: www.microchip.com/Bluetooth
A Switec X27-168 stepper motor wired up to the Arduino. The pointer was moving when I took the photo, hence the blur. These little geared stepper motors are designed to be used in car instrument panels, as the speedo, rev-counter, fuel gauge and so on. Not a great deal of torque, but quick to respond and high resolution (due to the internal gearing).
There's a software library to drive this type of motor, called Gaugette: github.com/clearwater/gaugette