Posted May 1, 2013 by Chris

“This device acts as interface between your microcontroller project and a GSM phone. It handles all modem data communication between the GSM phone and your micro-project. The best thing is that it decodes PDU into TEXT on the fly!”

Posted April 20, 2013 by Chris

“One of the first projects I published online a couple of years ago was about how to put together in a prototype board a simple circuit to interface a 10BaseT ethernet controller with a Microchip PIC18 microcontroller running the TCP/IP stack developed by Microchip. I called this project the PIC10T.”

Posted April 6, 2013 by Chris

“…when you have to program many chips, repeatedly reconnecting the programming cable quickly becomes a chore. So when I found an article about constructing a programming pen that would help solve both of these problems, I decided to build one for myself…”

Posted March 18, 2013 by Chris

“For the MIDI lab, I decided to try out a beam-break detection system I had been wondering about for awhile. Creating an invisible string that could be plucked seemed to be a perfect applicaiton for MIDI.”

Posted February 28, 2013 by Chris

“In this article we will take a look at the original, The Annoy, project, and see what we can do to improve it. Specifically, we’ll make a PCB for the project and find the smallest PIC package available (10F202) for it making it as small as possible. Additionally, we’ll switch over and use microchip’s new XC8 compiler so we don’t have to use assembly for programming.”

Posted February 19, 2013 by Chris

“This thing may remind you of an Arduino but it’s not, it’s not even an AVR but a dsPIC30F2012. Lots of times I want to try out something, but I’m too lazy to make the whole thing over and over on a breadboard so why not solder it together quick on a pref board so I can just stick it in. And always too lazy to put on RS232, but it’s a great debug so that’s why it’s on the board, actually it’s the only feature that’s built in to the board, because its really the only thing I need.”

Posted February 17, 2013 by Chris

“Alex Weber over at Instructables built a great programmable LED based on the AVR chip. Since I am tooled for PIC, I thought it would be fun to replicate what he has done. This simple project is fun and it provides a great building block for playing with collective behaviors.”

Posted February 3, 2013 by Chris

“Our group designed and manufactured a miniature robotic vehicle that conquers various terrains. The vehicle was designed with a track system which is powered by two DC motors. The motors use a Quadruple half H-Driver in order to drive the motors in both directions….These configurations allow the vehicle to drive on various terrains. ”

Posted January 17, 2013 by Chris

“In this article, we will show you how to build a system where the input and output have seperate microcontrollers and are linked together using XBee modules. The input system will use an infrared distance sensor to measure how far away an object is from the sensor and the output will drive a standard DC motor using a power transistor.”

Posted January 10, 2013 by Chris

“ In this article, we will use a PIC 18LF4520 and an Arduino UNO to build a transmitter and receiver using some wireless modules. The PIC will output serial commands as a transmitter that tell the Arduino system to pause an LCD screen from updating a counter value. This project is intentionally designed to be simple because there are many simple ideas at play and it’s important for you to understand each one.”