Category: Mcu
Easy Planter – A Simple Way Of Monitoring Plants
Easy Planter is a plant monitoring device able to sense temperature, humidity, pressure, moisture, light etc. A small bluetooth low energy plant sensor that easily fits into a plant pot. It can monitor temperature, humidity, pressure, moisture, light, and has I2C extension pins so...
Continue ReadingAn Introduction to MSP430 Launchpad
Rahul Sreedharan introduces us to TI's MSP430 microcontroller using LaunchPad board. In this tutorial we will be exploring the workings of a MSP430 based microcontroller from Texas Instruments. MSP430 is developed by Texas Instruments as an extremely low power 16 bit architecture for...
Continue ReadingATtiny based bidirectional motor control using L293D
Rahul @ Xanthium has posted a tutorial on interfacing ATtiny with L293D: In this tutorial we will learn to interface L293D with ATMEL ATtiny microcontroller and control them bidirectionally.The microcontroller used here is ATtiny2313A which is interfaced to two L293D motor control...
Continue ReadingPIC Programmable Relay Switch
Raj @ embedded-lab.com published a revised version of an old project, a programmable Relay Switch based on PIC16F1847 (or PIC16F628A) that can be used is various automation applications and you can independently set ON and OFF timer with maximum time interval 99 hours and 59...
Continue ReadingCreating your first IoT Ethernet Device – IoT, Home Automation
In this series of tutorials SteveQuinn show us how easy is to build a IoT Ethernet Device using ESP8266-01 WiFi module and how interface BMP085 barometric sensor, DS1307Z RTC, ILI9431 and log the data on a SD card. As mentioned, this Instructable is split into two parts. Part (A)...
Continue ReadingAVR vs PIC: The case of the candle
A self-igniting candle implemented using AVR and PIC microcontrollers. This project has two variations, one using an ATTiny25, the other using a PIC12LF1822. In a series of minimalistic devices, this electronic candle periodically measures ambient light levels. Once it detects...
Continue ReadingESP8266 Bread Board Testing
This instructable shows how to test an ESP board on bread board without soldering, especially for ESP-07 and ESP-12(E) and may be ESP-03. ESP8266 Bread Board Testing -...
Continue ReadingEmbeddedLab introduces us TI’s Tiva C MCUs
Shawon Shahryiar @ embedded-lab.com introduces us to Tiva C series microcontrollers from TI. The Tiva C series MCUs are high performance ARM Cortex M4F micros. Now what does that mean? Generally speaking the ARM Cortex M series is meant to be used in place of (or simply replace)...
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