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Interfacing Atmel AVR with Graphics Liquid Crystal Displays using ATmega32

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AVR SED1520 Library This is a C-library for avr-gcc/avr-libc to access SED1520-based graphics-LCDs. The modules used to develop the library only support “write to LCD”, read-modify- write on the display RAM is not possible. So this Library uses a “framebuffer” which holds the display-content in the AVR’s SRAM. For a 122*32 pixel display around 500 …

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Tetrapuzz – Tetris clone for AVR using ATmega168

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This is a projected that I finished development on over a year ago and I’m just now getting around to documenting it. I wanted to program Tetris from scratch and make it modular so it could be used with different displays. Right now I know it’s working with a KS0108 graphic LCD screen. I also …

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The Game of Life using ATtiny2313 microcontroller

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The reason for making this project is that I was always fascinated by Conways Game of Life. It’s a great demonstration of the fact that simple things with a very simple set of rules can do wonderful things: spawn more of them, modify themselves, do logical operations, even create Turing machines. I suspect much more can be …

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How-To: Super simple serial terminal using ATMEGA128

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This hack shows how to make a dumb terminal out of a keyboard, LCD screen, and an 8-bit microcontroller. From time to time, a portable dumb terminal can be handy for when you have to rescue a headless server that’s acting up or if you are building a minicomputer out of a WRT, or if …

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The Tuxgraphics AVR NTP clock using ATmega168

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The Network Time Protocol (NTP) has revolutionized the world. Suddenly one could have anywhere in the world accurate time and date. NTP is a simple UDP based protocol and can be implemented in a Microcontroller. Using the tuxgraphics ethernet board and a LCD display we build a nice clock which gets time and date via …

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Flickr images on a Nokia LCD using ATmega48

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LCDs are often used in microcontroller projects. Most used are these green character displays with two or more rows to display menus, status or debug messages. With mass production of mobile phones, color LCDs get that cheap, that they can be used as replacement. Some time ago I ordered a Nokia 6100 LCD including breakout board from …

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RSS Reader using ATmega8 microcontroller

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I spent part of an afternoon developing a hardware RSS reader (most of my time was spent on the python side of things). It’s pretty simple and uses an AVR microcontroller connected to a computer via a serial cable. Hardware I am using the Dragon Rider 500 as a development board. This provides all of the hardware …

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CU Organizer Using Atmega

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Introduction: One of the newest and fastest growing additions to the digital age in the 1990s has been the handheld personal computer. Given a little flash memory and a good LCD, anything is possible and commercial products like the 3Com PalmPilot and IBM Workpad are flourishing. But as these products expand their functionality so does …

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Wireless Electromyograph using ATmega32

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Introduction This project implements a wireless surface electromyograph that displays the signal using a television as an oscilloscope. Electromyography detects the electrical signals that the human body generates to contract muscles. Detecting very low voltages in the milliVolt range on the skin surface is not a trivial task. As shown in figure 1, EMG signals …

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WeatherDog Using ATMega32

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Introduction Our project was a real-time weather update system that accepted an airport code from the user via a keyboard, looked up the code on an internet database, and displayed the resulting weather information on a television screen. We used the PS/2 protocol, between a standard keyboard and …

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