BlinkLED
A BlinkLED is a LED that has its own PIC microcontroller. Blink patterns and blink rates are programmable and BlinkLEDs can be used individually (for LED Throwies) or in strings for holiday or special...
View ArticleLeon’s Mini Random Number Generator (mRNG) using pic microcontroller
Sales Pitch Are you confused by choices? Who isn’t? There are just so many things to decide. White, rye, or wheat? Pinstripes or polka dots? Feast or fast? Well, don’t worry because help is on the way!...
View ArticleMicrochip PIC16F877 Microcontrolle
Table of Contents Introduction 1.1 What is a Microcontroller? 1.2 Why are Microcontrollers used? 2 Getting started 2.1 Parts list and vendors 2.2 Connecting the equipment 3 PIC16fF877...
View ArticleCheap and Easy Dial Controlled High Power RGB LED(s) Driver
There may be a lot of RGB LED Drivers out there, but this one is a bit different, its versatile, small, cheap, and is simple to control. A potentiometer with built in switch is used for the controls. A...
View ArticleHow to Create a Beer Bottle LED VU Meter
Create your own Beer Bottle LED Volume Unit Meter! This instructable will show you how to create a LED beer bottle VU Meter. A volume unit meter is a device that is used to display a relative volume of...
View ArticleAurora 9×18 Kit
*** There’s an updated version of this kit available at http://www.theledart.com/blog/store *** Responding to many requests, Aurora 9×18 Kit is now available, so this is the Instructable specific to...
View ArticleMaking a mini LED Christmas tree
My two and a half year old son loves toys with flashing lights. For this Christmas I thought of making a mini LED Christmas tree for him. This project uses 22 multi-color LEDs which are driven by a...
View ArticleLED scrolling Christmas tree ornament with built in video game!
Hello all and welcome to this Christmas tree decoration instructable. This ornament is designed to hang on your Christmas tree just like any other decoration, but it’s just that little bit more eye...
View ArticleTemperature and relative humidity display with adaptive brightness control
The objective of this project is to illustrate a technique of implementing adaptive brightness control to seven segment LED displays. It consists of a closed loop system that continuously assesses...
View ArticleMaking a 8×40 LED matrix marquee using shift registers
LED matrix displays provide flexibility to display text, graphics, animations, and video, and therefore, they have become a popular mean of displaying information these days. You can see them at gas...
View ArticleGeneric Automotive Light Effect PIC/Arduino Modules
These are simple modules I made with a pic 12c508 microcontroller. I use them to create different effects. The Mosfets are capable of some decent curernt with very little heating. I have used these for...
View ArticleF84 Miniature Real-Time Controller
Build a simple real-time controller with PIC16F84 running at low power X-tal 32,768Hz. Daily scheduler for 6-channel resided in 64-byte EEPROM can easily be preprogrammed using Nigel PicProg. RTC2.C...
View ArticlePIC microcontroller led flasher circuit using PIC16F627A
This is microcontroller led flasher circuit using PIC16F627A as first PIC microcontroller learning of mine son. it is basic for really beginner. Important issue,we have to make The PIC micro controller...
View ArticleEmergency Vehicle LED Light
Described here is a low-component count Emergency Vehicle LED Light circuit which can be used for capturing the attention of (or warning) drivers and pedestrians. These type of lighting gadgets kindle...
View ArticleTest For Presence of Internal Oscillator Calibration Word for PIC12F629
Description The PIC 12F629 and 12F675 devices have an internal 4Mhz oscillator that enables the devices to be used without an external crystal or RC network. This frees up one or two pins for I/O use...
View ArticleRemote controlled LED lighting effects
LED’s have become most important component in lighting industry due to its miniature size and less power consumption. Also LED lights are lot more attractive than the primitive lights used once. This...
View ArticlePower MOSFET RGB LED PWM Driver for PIC12F683
Description Since I published the original RGB LED driver (photo right) I’ve had many enquiries from people asking how they could make the original board work with more LEDs. I’d already made a couple...
View ArticlePIC Microcontroller Basics and Applications for Engineeing Students
The microcontrollers plays an essential role in the embedded industry after the development of Intel 8051. The research in the field of embedded industry gave high efficient, low power consumption...
View ArticleLED FX using PIC12F629 Microcontroller
This project produces a number of effects on a set of three LEDs. You can also produce your own sequence and store it by using the 3 buttons. You can build the project on Matrix Board or buy a complete...
View ArticlePIC Projects using pic microcontroller
Some of the various PICs from Microchip, 16F84, 16F627, 16F628, 16F876 and a 16F877. So far, I have only played around with the PIC16F84 PIC chip, with exception to using a PIC16F876 with the HamHUD....
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