Microdot – wrist watch LED pattern timepiece using PIC16F8 microcontroller
Microdot – wrist watch LED pattern timepiece Another RGB Sunset Productions production! This project is a circuit board for making a wrist watch size version of my minidot clock:...
View ArticleA complete guide for LED Blinking
What is LED? A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source. LEDs have allowed new text, video displays, and sensors to be developed, while their high switching rates are also useful in...
View ArticleLab 2: Basic digital input and output
Description Today we will learn how to read digital inputs from a push button switch. A digital input has only two values: 1 and 0. The configuration of the push button switch is same as that of the...
View Articlemartin lightjockey 2 free
The new Martin Light Jockey II Lighting Software Kit is a new way to control your. LightJockey Manager is a free-of-charge software add-on for our LightJockey Page 2 the interface. In control panel,...
View ArticleSolar Tracking System
This is a simple PIC microcontroller based Solar Tracking system, only basic electronics skills are required. It uses 2 unipolar stepper motors and 4 IR-850nm LEDs as sensors to follow the sun...
View ArticleLED Sign has a purpose! using pic microcontroller
The single character LED sign I had been playing with now has a purpose! Shortly after discarding several ideas of having it as a serial display for PC/Server status, or hooking it up to the internet...
View ArticleInfra red remote control tester for Philips RC5 protocol
Philips invented the RC5 protocol for controlling electronic equipment such as CD players, VCR’s and audio amplifiers way back in the 1980’s. The RC5 standard has been adopted and used with great...
View ArticleMRNet — Wired Cab Module (Revision A) using pic microcontroller
Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Cab Design Goals Cab Electronics Power and Cable Interface Microcontroller Seven Segment Display Buttons LED’s Cab Printed Circuit Board Cab Software...
View ArticleElectronic Quiz Buzzer Circuit Diagram using PIC Microcontroller
Usually high level quiz competitions are very much time-oriented as it becomes significant to determine who has answered first. So here we’ll see how to make a buzzer system that helps to decide the...
View ArticleCircuit-Zone.com – Electronic Projects
Rotary encoders are very versatile input devices for microcontroller projects. They are like potentiometers expect of digital nature and unlike analogue potentiometers they never wear down. Rotary...
View ArticleCircuit-Zone.com – Electronic Projects
For a long time I needed a good programmer pussy, even if it is programming, so from time to time the application gets where it is used. So I decided to build the programmer. I chose between a couple...
View Article10 tricks for interfacing to the PIC16C508
Most of the ideas in this chapter can be found on the pages of this website, but just in case you want to go over the capabilities of the ‘508A, we have brought them together. Quite often when you are...
View ArticleLed Display Boards InBulk using pic microcontoller
We covered how to interface seven segment LED displays to a PIC microcontroller in two sections: Lab 6 and Lab 11. Today, we will move on to interfacing an LED dot matrix display. LED dot matrices are...
View ArticleHow to drive an rgb led using three microcontroller pins. using pic...
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...
View ArticleNight Light Saver V3.2 (PIC12C508)
Introduction It’s time for 8-pin microcontroller Microchip PIC12C508, the SAVER V3.2, my latest design of a device that turns a night light on and off everyday. The circuit uses only a PIC12C508 8-pin...
View ArticleRotary Encoders
Rotary encoders are very versatile input devices for microcontroller projects. They are like potentiometers expect of digital nature and unlike analogue potentiometers they never wear down. Rotary...
View ArticleLED Persistence of Vision Display
Electrical The main components of the electrical system were the timing system and the LED control system for 40 LEDs using a single PIC. A schematic of the system is shown below (click for larger...
View ArticleDiscolight effect with bass beat control using PIC16F84A
Short description of the operation: External circuit converts bass beat of music into pulses. The motor is controlled by them. If theres bass beat recognised then the motor rotates one direction (in...
View ArticlePIC18F2550 : Blink LED using XC8 Compiler
Welcome to another chapter of PIC18F programming Tutorial. In this chapter we are going to program a simple 28 pin PIC18F2550 microcontroller using mplabx IDE and XC8 Compiler. The concepts for...
View ArticlePIC16F628 4 RGB LED PWM Controller using pic microcontroller
I am a big fan of LEDs. Bright, colorful, flashing LEDs. So, given my affinity for LEDs, I decided to work on a controller that me and a few of my friends could use as an art project/passive...
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