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Netduino and MAX721 interfacing for driving seven segment LED displays

Seven segment LED displays and discussed about a time-division multiplexing technique that reduces the number of required microcontroller I/O pins to drive multiple seven segment LED displays. Today we will move a step further and discuss about a serial interface (SPI) for driving 8 seven segment LED displays. The technique uses MAXIM’s MAX7219 LED driver …

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New world record for organic solar technology with a cell efficiency of 12%

The following is important because with flexible organic photovoltaic cells, we are nearing a new era of development for practical solar-based solutions can be implemented with clever usage of these devices. Efficiency needs to be higher, but technology is progressing in the right direction and a breakthrough is inevitable. Heliatek announced a record breaking 12.0% …

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EA DIP displays – character and graphic display

EA DIP series displays from company Electronic Assembly provide an uncommon possibility to choose a graphic or a character display without a change of your device´s hardware. A quality display with a high contrast and an automatic temperature compensation, easy mounting by soldering of pins into a PCB, a display maximally utilizing the module size …

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Build 8-Digit LED Display stopwatch using Maxim MAX7219 Serially Interfaced

One of the basic usage of the TIMER peripheral on every microcontroller is to provide the accurate timing mechanism. Using the TIMER peripheral as the basic timing, we could easily develop a stopwatch and display it to the 8-Digit seven segment numeric LED display. Thanks to the Maxim MAX7219 chip which enable us to interface …

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RC car for beginners using Android control via Bluetooth

This is a simple project of Android Bluetooth Car with Bluetooth control. This project is open source and multiplatform: Adriano (Processing), STM32, MSP430, PIC, AVR, FEZ Panda II (.NET Micro Framework) and may be even В Raspberry Pi. To control the car used Android-device with a built-in accelerometer. Tilt forward – car goes forward, tilt …

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