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MCUs offering extensive connectivity interfaces, powerful performance and robust hardware-based security.
Arduino board designs use a variety of microprocessors and controllers. The boards are equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards or Breadboards (shields) and other circuits. The boards feature serial communications interfaces, including Universal Serial Bus (USB) on some models, which are also used for loading programs from personal computers. The microcontrollers are typically programmed using a dialect of features from the programming languages C and C++. In addition to using traditional compiler toolchains, the Arduino project provides an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Processing language project.
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
Dorkbot Bristol, December 2008: Drew operating the dropper on his high-speed photography rig. It's based on an Arduino and triggers the camera shutter and flash at precisely the right moment to capture the splash. The best of the results are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewandmithi/
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
Microchip Technology Inc. shipped its 10 billionth PIC® microcontroller (MCU) to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Microchip delivered this 10 billionth microcontroller, the 32-bit PIC32MX340F256, www.microchip.com/get/N46K, approximately 10 months after delivering its nine billionth.
The development environment of Kings!
More stuff bolted to crudely-sawn wood scrap!
I'm just starting to develop the software for the IN-14 clock, and this setup is the part that will let me upload it to the microcontroller clock brains and test it out. Microcontrollers are single-chip computers, commonly used in the Real World for tasks like controlling cars' fuel injectors or acting as the brains of your microwave oven. They're available in various sizes and degrees of computer-power; a clock doesn't need a very smart one. The chip shown here is overpowered for being clock brains and it cost about $5. Microcontrollers effectively turn hardware engineering tasks into software tasks, which makes me as a software engineer very happy. You use them by writing software on a PC, then "burning" it onto the controller with a tool called a programmer. Modern microcontrollers are reusable, so you can erase and re-burn them thousands of times - ideal for experimenting. Once burned, they can allegedly remember their programming for decades, unless erased.
The widget in the upper left is an AVR Dragon, which is a low-cost USB programmer / debugger for several of the microcontrollers in the Atmel AVR family.
In the breadboard at the bottom is one such chip, the ATMega8515, which distinguishes itself as a nixie clock controller because it has a lot of I/O pins. The tube driver board needs 4 bits per digit, so 16 I/O pins are needed to communicate with it.
In this shot the chip is running the essential first microcontroller program - an LED blinker. I've written plenty of stuff on other controllers, just not this one, and I've only used the Dragon a couple of times before. An LED blinker is a great way to make sure the whole environment is set up properly.
The Dragon is, on paper, a very nice little board - costs about $50 and has capabilities of much more expensive tools, such as in-circuit debugging. In practice it's been a bit temperamental, sometimes refusing to talk to my laptop, but all in all it's pretty cool.
In a really nerdy way.
Microchip Technology's enhanced mTouch™ Cap Touch Evaluation Kit includes a new board for development with the 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family. It comes equipped with capacitive touch-sensing keys and sliders, which allows designers to evaluate this interface in their applications using the Windows® OS-based mTouch Diagnostic Tool. This software tool provides an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) for developing cap-touch buttons and sliders, and is included in the free MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment. The additional software libraries, source code and other support materials that come with the board further shorten development cycles and reduce design costs.
When combined with its other included boards, the enhanced mTouch Cap Touch Evaluation Kit allows designers to evaluate all of Microchip’s 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers, providing a scalable capacitive touch sensing development platform for a wide range of design needs.
The enhanced mTouch Cap Touch Evaluation Kit (part # DM183026-2, $99.95) is available today at www.microchip.com/get/F3RD.
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.
Infineon XMC 2Go
KIT_XMC_2GO_XMC1100_V1
Summary of Features:
XMC1100 (ARM® Cortex™-M0 based)
On-board J-Link Lite Debugger
(Realized with XMC4200 Microcontroller)
Power over USB (Micro USB)
ESD and reverse current protection
2 x user LED
Pin Header 2x8 Pins suitable for Breadbord
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
The PIC16F75X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring intelligent analog and core-independent peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well as power supplies, battery charging, LED lighting, power management and power control/smart energy applications. The new PIC16F753 MCU builds on the success of the popular PIC12F752. The PIC16F753 offers all the key features of the PIC12F752, such as the integrated Complementary Output Generator (COG) peripheral that provides non-overlapping, complementary waveforms for inputs such as comparators and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) peripherals, while enabling dead-band control, auto shutdown, auto reset, phase control and blanking control. Additionally, the PIC16F753 offers an Op Amp with 3 MHz of Gain Bandwidth Product (GBWP), and a slope compensation circuit to help in Switch Mode Power Supply applications. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/FL6L
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.
Patrick Tresset - Talks about his drawing robot Paul (on show as part of the Alan Turing: Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition).
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)
Dan Stowell - Demonstrates his use of the Risset illusion in techno music.
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
My home-made double layer PCB made using heat toner transfer method.
www.apdigitallight.com/2009/12/simple-technique-to-make-p...
Microchip Technology's MCP6401/2/4 Operational Amplifiers (Op Amps) provide lower power consumption in small packages. Featuring quiescent current of just 45 microamperes at 1 MHz, the MCP6401/2/4 devices are an excellent complement to Microchip’s eXtreme Low Power PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs), helping to extend battery life in a variety of consumer (e.g. music players, appliances and gaming consoles); industrial (e.g. barcode scanners and gas meters); automotive (e.g. signal conditioning for proximity and tire-pressure-measurement sensors); and medical applications (e.g. glucometers and portable patient-monitoring devices), among others.
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.
Patrick Tresset - Talks about his drawing robot Paul (on show as part of the Alan Turing: Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition).
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)
Dan Stowell - Demonstrates his use of the Risset illusion in techno music.
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
Microchip Technology's PIC18F87J72-based Energy Monitoring PICtailâ„¢ Daughter Board (part # ARD00330) can be plugged into the Explorer 16 Development Board (part # DM240001) for easy development of energy-measurement and -monitoring devices.
Since I was always fumbling in the dark for a light to read my Butterfly exposure timer--and I also thought it'd be cool to design and build a microcontroller-powered project from the ground up--here's the prototype Exposure Timer Mark II.
The MCU is an ATMEGA48V with 4K program flash, about 2.5K consumed by the timer program. Features timed exposures up to 99m59s, delay between exposures, total exposure count, and mirror lockup. Also has adjustable brightness levels (from "readable in daylight" to "will not scorch your retinas at night"). A back-of-the-envelope estimate would give over a solid month of operation time from a pair of AAAs at the lowest brightness setting.
Now I just need to find a box for it. In retrospect, I should have found a matching protoboard/box before starting.
This mod includes a microcontroller that can alter the LEDs. The intent was to add a little flicker to make the engine seem more active... but it mostly makes it look like there is an engine failure, so I leave them full on.
All pins bent out flat, except number 10, which is folded under the chip.
Part of the high-tech holiday decorations project.
Microchip Technology's Microstick for dsPIC33F and PIC24H development board (part # DM330013) provides a complete, low-cost solution for designing with Microchip’s 16-bit PIC24H microcontrollers and dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), in a compact 20x76 mm footprint. At the low cost of $24.99, the Microstick offers an integrated USB programmer/debugger, which shortens learning curves. For maximum flexibility, the Microstick can be used stand-alone or plugged into a prototyping board. Additionally, educators are eligible for a 25% discount. For more information, visit www.microchip.com/Microstick.
Pellet stove controller. Populated PCB.
I was constantly burning out my pellet stove ignitor. An external thermostat tends to minimize the temperature fluctuation and causes the stove to run short cycles. The ignitor runs for 20-minutes every cycle.
This controller add more hysteresis to the temperature control. It continues to run the stove for a period after the thermostat stops calling for heat. When the thermostat again calls for heat, it adds a delay before starting a new cycle.
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
At Sandia National Laboratory , the advanced microcontroller circuitry inside the MidiWing musical instrument can calculate the many different frequencies or pitches that produce complex musical sounds from the position of a joystick, mouse or other input.
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Microchip Technology's PIC18F47J53 8-bit USB microcontroller (MCU) features XLP technology for eXtreme Low Power Consumption, up to 128 KB Flash program memory and 4 KB RAM, offering plenty of code space for Microchip’s free USB stack, and for application code.
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 I2C bus (read as I squared C) is one of the most important embedded system serial bus interface first introduced by Philips in 1980; using just two lines called SCL (serial clock) and SDA (serial data) respectively make the I2C bus is a perfect choice to provide additional I/O capabilities to your microcontroller project without changing your microcontroller type and design in order to increase the I/O port pins. For more information please visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=1239
Studio strobe on a big PVC tripod for doing outdoor timelapse at night. Winds are lower at night, allowing you to work in the natural environment without the excessive vibrating effect caused by wind moving leaves during the interframe interval. I plan to adapt this technique to seasons timelapse once I have more experience with it at high framerates.