Category: Mcu
Send Texts or Make Calls With This Tiny GSM Board
@ blog.tindie.com This quad band GSM board is claimed to be the worlds smallest of its kind. We have no way to verify this bold claim but let’s all agree that this is a pretty small board that lets you send texts and make calls. The GSM feature is an addition to the OLEDiUNO Cube...
Continue ReadingOpen Source Meets Hardware: Open Processor Core
SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, had recently announced the availability of its Freedom Everywhere 310 (FE310) system on a chip (SoC), the industry’s first commercially available SoC based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set...
Continue ReadingSlave Flash Trigger
A Programmable Optical Slave Flash Trigger for Digital Cameras with PIC 12F675 Slave Flash Trigger -...
Continue ReadingPicoDetector : a simple metal detector
Bruno Gavand build a simple metal detector using PIC12F683. He writes: The idea of this circuit is to hack PIC oscillator circuit, by replacing the crystal by a coil : the frequency of the oscillator then depends on presence of metal near the coil, just like in a classic metal...
Continue ReadingBFuse: Electronic Fuse for Breadboard
Jakub Polonský created this solution to make breadboard prototyping safer for components: adjustable and programmable electronic fuse especially designed for breadboards – a breadboard fuse, or BFuse BFuse: Electronic Fuse for Breadboard -...
Continue ReadingPIC SD CARD DATA LOGGER
"pinko" has designed a simple datalogger based on a PIC microcontroller that logs data on a SD Card. He writes: Some time ago I decoded to make a simple general purpose Data Logger with the following parameters for the project. it should have very simple design that should be...
Continue ReadingDesigning a simple and cheap temperature logger
pickandplace.wordpress.com writes: I started with making the TMP102 temperature sensor work. Nothing to say in particular, it’s just an other I2C-small-package-sensor. Or rather SMBus, but apart from the minimum speed clock requirements on the SMBus, the two protocols are...
Continue ReadingBlue IR: Build your own universal remote
Sarunas built this device to replace a bunch of different remote controls with a smart phone. Controlling TV, HiFi, DLP and similar IR controllable stuff is easy and fun from a smart phone using previously built smart remote, until it runs out of battery. Despite that Bluetooth Low...
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