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I Heart 0X0 is a game, a wearable artwork, musical fancy and location based plaything! Created using conductive velcro and powered by LilyPad Arduino. At time of writing, Aug 10, I'm still fiddling with this, so final video & write up soon at rainycatz.wordpress.com
Polygonal spiral of aluminium welding wire, bent under computer control by Arduino and motors. Photo by David Henshall.
Microchip announced a new family of PIC32MX1/2 microcontrollers (MCUs) in 256/64 KB Flash/Ram configurations. These new MCUs are coupled with comprehensive software and tools from Microchip for designs in digital audio with Bluetooth®, USB audio, graphics, touch sensing and general-purpose embedded control. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/SRRT
This is the CPU board with a 8-bit microcontroller PIC12F629, a 20MHz crystal and a bypass capacitor to reduce the noise. This little board goes into a 70-210mm f/2.8 lens and an identical one is made for a 28mm f/1.8 lens. There is an internal oscillator but can only run at 4 MHz which is too slow for this application.
The sadly uninteresting Vex microcontroller.
All the peripherals can be interfaced with an arduino to better effect. Slap a bluetooth module on it and operate it from your phone instead of the hokey Vex rf joystick thingie.
With only 35 instructions to learn the Microchip PIC microcontroller assembler language is considered very efficient and easy to learn; you will not find such as Atmel AVR microcontroller CP (compare) and BRNE (branch if not equal) or BRGE (branch if greater or equal) on the PIC microcontroller assembler language dialect, instead it’s just provide us with a very simple bit test and skip one line instruction. For more information please visit http://www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=909
I originally made this over 30 years ago. With the technology available then it needed another big metal box. Recently I took it down from the back shelf and managed to get it all in the nice old box by using a PICAXE micro-controller.
Microchip announced an expansion of its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, with the peripheral-rich, low pin count PIC16(L)F161X family. These new MCUs expand the offering of Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIP), which offload timing-critical and core-intensive tasks from the CPU, allowing it to focus on other application tasks. Additionally, this family integrates fault-detecting hardware features to assist engineers in developing safety-critical applications. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/VLDM
My home-made double layer PCB made using heat toner transfer method.
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Arduino UNO was one of the first ever circuit portraits, way back in 2013. This is a new edition with an extra layer and a bit more finesse.
Listed on Etsy here: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/uptomuch?section_id=10073316
- Microcontroller ATmega32U4
- Operating Voltage 5V
- Flash Memory 32 KB of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader
- SRAM 2.5 KB
- EEPROM 1 KB
- 16MHz Clock
Foto Arkadiusz Sikorski 2012 / www.arq.pl/ | www.sikorski.art.pl/
A Practical Guide to Using A Bitscope
by Michael Simpson
EXCLUSIVE-ONLINE ARTICLE. A computer-based scope called the BitScope. Page 0
Steinmentz Father of Elec Engineering
by Vaughn D. Martin
EXCLUSIVE-ONLINE ARTICLE. Historians often miss inventor’s most important inventions — and even miss great inventors altogether! Page 0
A Primer on Phase Locked Loops
by Gerard Fonte
Learn the fundamental principles that PLL circuits embody and try your hand at a couple applications. Page 44
Projects
Inductive Proximity Sensors Part 2
Circuits
by Beau Schwabe
As promised last month, the two different operation modes will be explained, as multople coils in a differential sensor approach are used. Page 32
Build the RetroGame, Kits available @www.nutsvolts.com
Electronic Gadgets
by Eric Rothfus
Build it, play it, and re-master your skills at Retro Rover and Retris. Page 38
Columns
Techknowledgey
by Jeff Eckert
TechKnowledgey 2009
Topics covered include "meat" for robot brains, rodent power, dangerous printer particles, plus other cool stuff. Page 12
The Design Cycle
The Design Cycle
Older language, newer interface. Page 15
Q&A
by Russell Kincaid
Q&A
Softening up a table saw, returning light to Christmas, high voltage generation, plus more. Page 24
Personal Robotics
by Vern Graner
Robot Art
In an attempt to explore some of the interesting and inspiring ways art and technology intertwine, this month we will focus on a number of works from some talented technoartisans who have used technology and robotics to pursue their muse in interesting and ingenious ways. Page 49
PICAXE Primer
by Ron Hackett
Taming Unruly LCDs: Part 1
In the previous installment of the PICAXE Primer, I said we would turn our attention toward interfacing our Master Processor with inexpensive LCD displays based on the Hitachi HD44780 controller Page 56
Smiley’s Workshop
by Joe Pardue
Smileys Workshop: An AVR C Programming Series (Part 9)
The Arduino Way. Page 62
Open Communication
by Louis E. Frenzel
Wireless Made Easy with a New Kit
Think of your TV remote control, garage door opener, remote keyless entry on your car, and other wireless devices you use daily. Now you can bring that convenience and functionality to other projects. Page 67
Departments
Developing Perspectives
by Bryan Bergeron
Please visit our Developing Perspectives blog to read the full article and comment. Page 8
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.
Microchip Technology's PIC18F87J72 Single-Phase Energy-Meter Reference Design (Part # ARD00280) features a shunt-based single-phase meter with energy-calculation firmware and GUI-assisted software calibration, the reference design enables calculation of active/reactive energy, forward/reverse energy, active/reactive/apparent power and RMS current/Voltage. Customers can reuse or customize the free firmware for their needs, which further shortens time to market and enables them to differentiate their products in the marketplace.
The camera body is a small plastic box from Maplin's. The ribbon cable connects the sensor chip to the Arduino, and supplies 5V power.
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced its first instrumentation amplifier, the MCP6N11. The new instrumentation amp features Microchip’s unique mCal technology, which is an on-chip calibration circuit that enables low initial offset voltage and a means to control offset drift, which results in higher accuracy across time and temperature. The MCP6N11’s low-power CMOS process technology enables low power, while providing a gain bandwidth product of 500 kHz, and it features a hardware shutdown pin for even more power savings. The device’s low, 1.8V operation allows two 1.5V batteries to be drained beyond typical use, and its rail-to-rail input and output operation enables full-range use, even in low-supply conditions.
Each wheel has three optical sensors, an Arduino microcontroller board, an audio amplifier and a battery pack. They play generative music as the wheel turns.
Properly Selecting Electronic Components
by Vaughn D. Martin
If you want your circuits to work right, you gotta have the right components for the job. This tutorial will help you make sure you know what you're doing. Page 48
How To: Intro to Heatsink Selection and Installation
by John E. Post
Learn how to not get burned on your next build. Page 56
Projects
The Arch-Ball Clock
Electronic Gadgets
by Elza Simpson
This is one for the most unique approaches ever for keeping track of time. Page 38
Transistor Clock
Electronic Gadgets
by Keith Bayern
If somehow the Arch-Ball clock didn't strike your fancy, you won't be able to "resist" this amazing design. Page 42
Columns
Techknowledgey
by Jeff Eckert
Techknowledgey 2009
Topics covered include harnessing antimatter, eye-to-robot interface, Intel fined $1.45 billion, plus other info you won't want to miss. Page 12
The Spin Zone
by Jon Williams
Loving LEDs Again
The Stamp Applications column has evolved into Propeller based projects now! This month, you'll be loving LEDs again. Page 16
Smiley’s Workshop
by Joe Pardue
Smiley’s Workshop: An AVR C Programming Series (Part 12)
AVR learning platform projects. Page 22
Q&A
by Russell Kincaid
Q & A
Voltage conversion, understanding thermal lag, software-based power control, plus more. Page 32
Personal Robotics
by Vern Graner
The Probotix Fireball V90 CNC Visited
In that article, we detailed the PROBOTIX Fireball v90 — one of the first high-accuracy/sub-$1,000 CNC systems on the market. Page 60
Getting Started With PICS
by Chuck Hellebuyck
Improving the PICKit 2 Development Board
The one thing I always wanted to add was a breadboard area, so I modified the development board included with the Starter Kit — it’s called the low pin count development board. Page 68
The Design Cycle
by Fred Eady
Kids CAN Love Engineering
This year’s science station consisted of a Lenovo NetBook coupled to a USB-to-CAN bridge. The goal was to introduce the students to a working network they could actually see and touch. Page 74
Near Space
by L. Paul Verhage
GPS Simulator for Missions to Near Space
What I need is a convenient GPS simulator that will let me test a flight program on the ground. In this article, I’ll describe what I came up with. Page 82
PIC® MCUs featuring nanoWatt XLP eXtreme Low Power Technology are useful in designing embedded applications with extremely low power consumption. Benefits of nanoWatt XLP Technology include:
â– Sleep / Power-down current down to 20 nA
â– Brown-out Reset down to 45 nA
â– Watch-dog Timer down to 400 nA
â– Real-time Clock/Calendar down to 500 nA
For more information, please visit: www.microchip.com/XLP
MCUs offering extensive connectivity interfaces, powerful performance and robust hardware-based security.
ESP32-S3 TFT Feather knockoff. Bought this one from AliExpress. Running CircuitPython and wanted to see what how showing an actual photo looked. In person it looked better than shown here and looked pretty good for a 1.14" 240x135 screen.
One of the advantages using the Microchip PIC microcontroller Pulse Width Modulation or PWM for short is; this PWM peripheral circuit is designed to control the DC motor using the full bridge mode PWM feature. The PWM peripheral works by supplying the correct signal to the H-Bridge DC motor circuit such as speed controlling and changing the DC motor direction. For more information please visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=706
A simple AVR breakout/programming target board for the ATmega168 microcontroller (and friends) in a convenient business card form factor. An open-source hardware project from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, read more here.
5 watt LED light over kitchen sink, with motion sensor for auto activation. Uses ATtiny84 and a MOSFET. Blog entry here: macetech.com/blog/node/109
The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328
It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.
arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardUno
Photo taken by Michael Kappel of my Embedded Electronics Experiment Kit
View the high resolution Image on my picture website
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/