If you are just getting into microcontrollers there’s alot to know as you have likely found out. There’s alot of good online tutorials for the Atmel AVR’s and chances are you have see a few of those by now. I recently got into microcontrollers and didn’t know jack about it. I wanted to have some […]
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When I was first working with AVR microcontrollers, I relied a lot on tutorials I found on the web, but nearly all of them raised the question of how to attach a programmer to the microcontroller when you aren’t using a development board. Most of the time, I would see people shoving pieces of wire into the
ISP Breadboard Header using AVR microcontrollers using Atmega Read More »
To interface 8-bit DAC with AVR microcontroller ATMega32 and generate different waveforms like Square Wave, Sine Wave, Triangular Wave, Staircase Wave and Saw-tooth Wave. Instruments · AVR Development Board · ADC – DAC card · Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO) · Power Supply Apparatus · Connecting Wires · CRO Probes · General purpose PCB Components · AVR
DIY – Waveform Generator using AVR Microcontroller Using Atmega Read More »
Multiplexing LEDs can be tricky, but we’re working with RGB LEDs, so think of each RGB as three individual LEDs. For an 8 x 8 matrix, that is 192 total LEDs on a single matrix. Even though there are only 32 connection pins, it is still possible to individually control the color and brightness of
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In this tutorial we are going to interface FLEX sensor with ATMEGA8 microcontroller. In ATMEGA8, we are going use 10bit ADC (Analog to Digital Conversion) feature to do this job. Now the ADC in ATMEGA cannot take a input more than +5V. What is a Flex Sensor? A FLEX sensor is a transducer which changes its resistance when its shape
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The WiFi Shield was delivered by Amazon. The Arduino UNO Rev 3 was found at RadioShack… First you need to load the last Arduino IDE (Ver 1.0.2) it has the necessary library to use the WiFi shield. Tried the examples “Scan for available networks” and “WPA network example” from: http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/ArduinoWiFiShield It works like a charm!
New Arduino WiFi Shield (Testing) usign arduino Read More »
Anyone who’s started learning about microcontrollers and code could tell you that a good place to start is by looking at the most basic example sketches provided. As often times their simplicity can teach you a lot more than you think. With the Arduino, one of my favorite examples is the blink sketch, which is
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I have loved making projects with Arduinos, but at $30 a piece your projects can get expensive. So I want to show you how you can make your own Arduino from scratch and save money doing it. Make your own Arduino for around $8. For this instructable I show you how to make one on
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Another project I’m working on required a good timer, but the more I read about Arduino, I realized that I couldn’t make an accurate timer using an Arduino that was already devoted to other tasks. The Arduino will always lose time if you perform other tasks. The solution was a Real Time Clock module that keeps perfect
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At University, Alexander Zenger and I decided to realize a weatherstation with an Arduino Microcontroller. We wanted to measure temperature, pressure and humidity. It should be also possible to get every 5 min a value update on an external server. Our basic idea was to develop a weatherstation which is easy to use with different technologies
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