MCU Circuits
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The goal is to be able to turn on and off the load (an 8051 based uC) by pressing both switches. When the uC turns on, it sets PWR high, and then when the switches are pressed again, pin 4 of the flip flop goes low, turning off the boost regulator and uC..... -
Microcontroller design where the mcu is placed in hibernation mode, and can only be awoken by a pulse(high-low-high) signal on the reset pin. (active low) As a wake-up source i`m using an accelerometer or an external RTC. The idea is to have the.... -
Arduino Uno has a ATMEGA328P-PU microcontroller, and bunch of other stuff on the board. I`d like to program the chip without the Arduino software, and only the minimum of other components. I want to eventually create things without the cost of Arduino, and I.... -
A device which provides a USB port. If I attach it to a Windows PC it is recognized as a "CP2103 USB to UART Bridge Controller". According to the device documentation, it should communicate in serial format at 38400bps. Since the USB pinout is different from.... -
Controlling a relay with stm32 micro controller. For the isolation I have used a 4N33 opto-isolator. As my relay coil needs around 250 mA, I used a mps222 transistor. I figured that the logic gets inverted when I used the gpio as the source voltage for the.... -
Did you check if you actually see the zero crossings on your input pin You might want to write a sketch that toggles the pin13 LED every 50 or 60 or zerocrossings. You should see a visible 1Hz blink. jippie Mar 3 `13 at 11:41 Which input pin did you use for.... -
This is my conceptual schema to use a PIC12 to control the blinking of 3 LEDs with different blinking patterns. I have a few questions that would like to ask... -
Soft power switch for a microcontroller where a momentary switch can turn the circuit on (including microcontroller), and then when the switch is pushed a second time, the microcontroller can shut itself off after performing some clean up. I have the above.... -
For a project I need to display a progress bar of the activity performed by my MCU. For this purpose I am going to use a bargraph display, but the problem is that bargraph display driver driver IC LM3914 uses analog input where as MCU produces a digital.... -
A strip of LEDs from a microcontroller using PWM to control the brightness. The strip I have takes about 1. 5A at 12V. I`m only familiar with purely low power digital electronics so wanted to check if these assumptions are correct and get any advice :-.... -
A PIR sensor is triggered by itself when using a timer to wait 2 seconds after the sensor is triggered. Without using the timer to wait the sensor works as expected. I have a PIR sensor connected to an ATMega328p. The PIR sensor has three pins; VCC, GND and.... -
Project using Sparkfun`s IOIO for Android ( ) where power consumption is a concern. The IOIO board provides the phone with 500 mA charging if I`m correct, which is too much for continuous operation. There`s a trick I have in mind where I want to power the.... -
I opened remote of a RC car and extended wires out of backward, forward, left and right switches. So when I ground anyone of then the circuit completes andit sends signal to the car. I wanted to close the circuit using one of the I/O pins of BeagleBone.... -
Make a toy device which spins to the left whenever there is an obstruction in front of it, without any microcontroller. Can anybody please check whether my approach in building the device is correct or not [let`s assume we are driving our device in a bright.... -
LED will turn on when PIO goes low - acting like GND - and current will be taken from power supply not from PIO like first method. So do I must take care of maximum current of PIO although it just act like GND not like a power supply -like method 1 -. when I.... -
A circuit such that the microcontroller can toggle a GPIO pin and shut the whole system (including microcontroller itself) down. And when the user presses a momentary button, the power is brought back up again. The circuit is normally powered down. When the.... -
A microcontroller (MCU) is a small computer in a single integrated circuit consisting of a CPU is relatively simple combined with support functions such as crystal oscillators, timers, sensors, serial and analog I / O etc. Microcontroller designed for small.... -
This article is in continuation to the articleSingle character LCD display using AVR. The aforesaid article shows how to display a single letter onLCD. Moving forward towards learning to work with LCD, this article explains how to display a string on LCD..... -
Oscilloscope Xminilab-B on the microcontroller Atmel AVR ATXMEGA32A4 electro suite in rlocman The Gabotronis company produces debug board Oscilloscope Xminilab-B on the microcontroller Atmel AVR ATXMEGA32A4 electro suite. As we found in rlocman.ru, The.... -
a regulated and noise free power supply voltage for the microcntroller and other components like amplifiers, filters and GPS etc. , otherwise a voltage surge generated in the voltage being fed to the microcontroller and other components may permanently.... -
buzzer circuit, pic microcontroller, piezo buzzer is a computer chip. It is overkill for driving a piezo buzzer. It is certainly a very low power processor that is optimum for portable and small devices where battery power must be conserved.... -
A simple timer that can be used to turn on/off a load after user specified time. The prototype was developed using xBoard MINI, a low cost easy to use ATmega8 development board. The program was burned to the MCU`s flash memory using eXtreme Burner - AVR.... -
This article discuss how you can detect the entry of a person in a room and get this signal inside your MCU. This is NOT a complete project but just an idea that can be implemented in many different projects. The technique is to use use an IR transmitter and.... -
This article is for complete beginners with servo motors. It teaches you the servo motor basic theory and gives detailed steps to use them with AVR Microcontrollers like ATmega32.... -
In present day, variety good sensors are available to measure almost anything. In this tutorial will explore the wonderful world of sensors, starting with a very simple analog temperature sensor LM35. We will learn how to interface it with PIC MCU and.... -
We will use them to show current room temperature using a LM35 temperature sensor. Please note that this schematic is slightly different from our previous schematic on multiplexed seven segment display. The display select i/o pins were RA0, RA1, RA2, RA3 on.... -
A source code for a very simple PIC based digital timer. The actual hardware of the project isn`t with me anymore. I will rather demonstrate it using my DIY PIC16F628A breadboard module and I/O board. The complete circuit diagram along with the firmware.... -
The high-tech credit card has been nicknamed "microcontroller super card" because of all the great improvement ideas. I showed how to first verify the code, and then upload on to the arduino board. I then wrote a code for the counter to go from 0 to 9 using....
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This project fits more for custom made battery casing that can have more space to hide things inside. This switch with few alterations can be used for any other project as well but is designed based on e-bike needs! This project use a clever functionality of.... -
The circuit described here uses ultrasonic oscillations and operates based on the propagation velocity of these oscillations in the air. Thus, we can easily determine the distance of two points if the time within which the wave travels this distance is.... -
Sometimes the precious metals are hidden too deep and are not detected except with complicated devices. In many cases, however, small pieces of precious metal buried near the surface can be detected by relatively simple means. Everyone is very attractive to.... -
Many times for various reasons we forget or can not water the plants that we have in our homes. And many humidity sensors units just notify us with a beeping sound or with a flashing light, that the pot needs watering. But what if we are away from home? This.... -
The principle behind a metal detector is really very simple. Proof of this is the circuit that follows, in which it proves that the construction of a metal detector can be done in the minute, with few components that we find very easily everywhere. With the.... -
The sub-harmonic bass generator is a sound producing unit for guitars. The sound it produces looks very much like that of the bass guitar. The octave generator is sometimes quite unusual since it does not produce any of the usual ways of coloring the sound,.... -
In the past the sounding (sea bottom measurement) was done with the "bullet", that is, with a heavy lead object that the seamen plucked into the sea hung from a calibrated rope. As soon as the "bullet" reached the bottom, the depth appeared directly from the.... -
This Amplifier was designed to have the following specifications: Distortion less than 0.1% at full power of 100W even at 20KHz. Power has to be attributed to an extended bandwidth. The output transistors must be protected against short circuits. The power.... -
A series of LEDs serve to alert the gardener when plants need water. Using two conventional digital integrated LEDs and a series of LEDs, we make a very useful device for gardening. The device detects the amount of water in the pot and alerts the grower.....
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