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15×7 Display using a PIC16F628 Microcontroller
This project is what you have been waiting for. Remember the scrolling signs you see in shops and on advertising billboards? Now you can program your own moving sign with all the effects you can think...
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How to drive an rgb led using PIC16F877A
The RGB LED contains three LEDs encased in one shell: Red, Green and Blue (some contain an extra blue led – as blue LEDs generate less output intensity (candela) per mA). It looks like a single white...
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LEDactus using PIC18F1320 Microcontroller
The LEDactus is my version of a dry climate niche dweller like a cactus. LEDactus is immobile and attempts to survive by creating a pleasant display. This is of course in the hopes that passersby will...
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PIC Based Message wand
The project uses flashing LEDs to present shot message in the air by swinging a wand around above the head. A perfboard is used to construct the circuit that is powered by 2 coin cells type CR2016. The...
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Arduino powered temperature sensing RGB LED nightlight using PICaxe
About a year ago I started on a project to make a temperature controlled nightlight. I was inspired by seeing these lovely LED lamps styled as mushrooms growing out of pieces of wood. Those mushrooms...
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A PIC16F819 DYMOCLOCK
I wanted to build a clock as simple as possible : built around a little 18 pins PIC no 7 segment display, only LEDs no decoder, no buffer, no driver for the LED display a cheap temperature sensor The...
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Bicycle Persistence of Vision Light Display using PIC16F84
In February of 2007 I spent a little while prototyping a board that turns any bicycle wheel into a moving display billboard using a single string of LEDs. The idea was to do something that would be...
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Serial Controlled RGB LED PWM Driver PIC12F629 based PWM controller for RGB LEDs
Description If you want to build your own multiple RGB LED display that you can control from either a PC or a dedicated controller then this project will let you do just that. The project on this page...
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PIC 16F88 Microcontroller PIC based Tengu
Tengu derives its name from a mythical Japanese creature known for getting into mischief. Our Tengu, however is more earthly in nature. It responds to voice and sounds and takes on different facial...
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Strobe Lights Project
Stroboscopic effects of lights for nightclubs are realized by bringing into play old white Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) swapping the ejection lanterns/lamps for superior effectiveness at minimal cost....
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PIC16F877A LED blink
The Microchip PIC16F877A has 40 pins 33 of them can be input or output. In this simple project I am going to configure this microcontroller to blink a 33 LED each LED is connected to one I/O pin. The...
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Red Light for Astronomy Observing using PIC12F683
When doing astronomy observing at night preserving night vision is critical. This requires using the minimum amount of light that makes the sky charts readable. What is this minimum level depends on...
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PicoDetector : a PIC-based simple and cheap metal detector
A short video clip is sometimes better than a long explanation : The idea of this circuit is to hack PIC oscillator circuit, by replacing the crystal by a coil : the frequency of the oscillator then...
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PIC16F84A MemoSound Game
Game rules You will have to memorize a melody, made of up to 62 steps. A step is one of the four tones available in the game system. In order to help you, each tone is associated to a color LED...
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0-9999 seconds count down timer using PIC12F683 microcontroller
The goal of this project is to construct a simple 0-9999 seconds count down timer with an alarm and a display. The time is set through two tact switches and the count down seconds are displayed on a...
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Chromation Systems RGB LED Tube Light
Built utilizing a 24 Channel High Current USB LED Controller to control 12 volt RGB LED Light Strip, in 8 separate groups. Each group has individual 8-bit PWM which can create over 16 million colors....
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PIC 12F675 Microcontroller Tutorial.
A tutorial on the 12F675 PIC microcontroller which shows you how to program and use it with a series of projects starting out with a simple LED flasher and progressing on to more advanced projects.To...
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Cooper Bills (csb88) and Anish Borkar (ab673)
Introduction The Handy Lab Buddy is a tool every ECE should have. The four features of this tool include a talking voltmeter, logic probe, voltage averager, and frequency measurer. As a cheap and...
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PIC16F877A timer0 code + Proteus simulation
This PIC16F877A microcontroller tutorial answers the question, ” How to use timer0 of PIC16F877A and how to handle its interrupts? “ Using PIC16 simulator (Proteus) you can verify this PIC timer0 code...
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How to take input with PIC18F4550 Microcontroller
Any microcontroller based system typically has an input and a corresponding output. Taking simple output with a PIC microcontroller has been explained in LED blinking with PIC18F4550. This article...
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