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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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 created the MRF24WB0MA PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board (part # AC164136-4, $59.99) to enable development with the new Wi-Fi module. This daughter board plugs into the Explorer 16 and PICDEM.net™ 2 boards to allow easy, modular development with hundreds of 8-bit PIC18, 16-bit PIC24 and 32-bit PIC32 MCUs, as well as the dsPIC® DSCs. All of these tools are available today at www.microchip.com/get/NNET.
The Multimedia Expansion Board is a modular add-on to any of Microchip Technology's Starter Kits for the 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family, which have been purchased by thousands of embedded designers. The board demonstrates how to implement a flexible graphics display strategy that is not dependent on controller-based QVGA Display Modules, which are frequently obsoleted. It also includes a high-quality 24-bit stereo audio codec line out, headphone and microphone jacks, integrated FCC-certified Wi-Fi®, an on-board 3-axis accelerometer and a 5-position joystick. No other manufacturer offers such a complete multimedia development system for this class of 32-bit microcontroller.
The Multimedia Expansion Board (part # DM320005, $249.99) is available today at www.microchip.com/get/F3RD.
The seven segment display is one of the most popular numeric displays used in many microcontroller applications because it’s cheap, robust and reliable. The seven segment actually consists of 8 LED (Light Emitting Diode) and it’s come with various sizes suitable for various numeric display application such as digital clock, counter, thermometer, humidity, etc. For more information please visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=844
See the blog post: rasterweb.net/raster/2011/07/14/terrible-photos/
(Or maybe this one: rasterweb.net/raster/2010/11/09/cheap-arduinos-usb/ )
Just a snapshot of the microcontroller developer's life :) On the sheet is the assignment of microcontroller pin ports and plug connection. Afterwards voltage levels and speeds are tested with an oscilloscope.
(That big 300V transformator in the back is not used in this context)
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.
Microchip Technology's MCP9804 Temperature Sensor provides high temperature accuracy of +0.25° C (typical) and +/- 1° C from -40 to +125°C, as well as static current consumption of just 200 µA (typ.). Available in small 8-pin MSOP and 2 mm x 3 mm DFN packages, the I2C™ device reduces board space and enables longer battery life for industrial, automotive and consumer applications.