Attach any I2C client chip (thermo sensors, AD converter, displays, relais driver, …) to your PC via USB … quick, easy and cheap! Drivers for Linux, Windows and MacOS available. The i2c-tiny-usb project is an open source/open hardware project. The goal of i2c-tiny-usb is to provide a cheap generic i2c interface to be attached to […]
i2c interface to USB interface using attiny45 microcontroller Read More »
Driving a shift register using an AVR chip’s built-in hardware is really quite easy. Most of their offerings have an SPI module, or Serial Peripheral Interface. A shift register is exactly that, a peripheral device that communicates via a serial line. All we need to do is hook up our connections and use a few
How to drive 595 shift registers with AVR hardware SPI using ATmega168 microcontroller Read More »
Sometimes in embedded design you may want to go wireless. Might be you will want to log various readings of remotely placed sensors, or simply build a remote control for robot or car alarm system. Radio communications between two AVR microcontrollers can be easy when specialized modules are used. Lets try to run very well
Running TX433 and RX433 RF modules with AVR microcontrollers using Atmega8 Read More »
This is simple demo program of reading button state, lighting LEDs, sending information via USART. 8 buttons are connected to Atmega16 port A, 8 LEDs to port B via current limiting resistors. While none of buttons arent pressed there is running light on LEDs performed, but when any of buttons is pressed then LEDs display
Output number when button is pressed using Atmega16 microcontroller Read More »
For measuring motos speed there can Optical interrupter used like H21A1. This is a device where IR LED and photo-transistor is coupled in to plastic housing. The gap between then allows interrupting signal with opaque material and this way switching the output from ON to OFF. This device can be connected to Microcontrollers ICP pin and
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Scanning the web on microcontroller based USB solutions, I stumbled over Objective Development’s freeware USB solution based on Atmel’s AVR architecture. I decided to build up their reference design PowerSwitch with an ATTiny2313 MCU. Since I never used AVR chips before, the first challenge was to set up a code development environment enabling me to modify the firmware to
Atmel AVR-firmware based universal USB-Interface using ATTiny2313 Read More »
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
Flickr images on a Nokia LCD using ATmega48 Read More »
As you might be able to tell from recent posts, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with an Arduino. I’ve now got at least one project that I’d like to make a little more permanent, rather than it just being a bunch of components on a breadboard. The easiest option would probably be to
Honey I Shrunk The Arduino using ATmega328p Read More »
The purpose of this project was to create a simple, portable device that would periodically read sensors and then store the sensor data so it could be retrieved later. The result is the HexiLogger, “hexi” because it can support up to six different sensor inputs and “logger” because it will store the input data on
HexiLogger, an Arduino based data logger using ATmega328 Read More »
Introduction A modern-day twist on the classic theremin musical instrument. This project uses two IR sensors and the ATMEGA1284P microcontroller to create an inexepensive, easy-to-use theremin. The theremin is a musical instrument which is controlled by the electromagnetic field your body body produces naturally. One hand is used to control the volume of the instrument,
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