Tag: Microcontroller
$2 Arduino – ATMEGA328 as a stand-alone
In this tutorial you will learn how to use ATMEGA328 microcontroller as standalone Arduino. This way you can minify your next arduino project. They cost only 2 bucks, can do the same as your Arduino and make your projects extremely small. We will cover the pin layout, how to make...
Continue ReadingGenerating Analog Voltage with Digital Circuit
Maurizio show us how to generate an analog voltage using a microcontroller and some resistors. The purpose of this article is how to generate analog voltage with digital circuit. Although the market provides today a very broad range of dedicated digital-to-analogue converters,...
Continue ReadingSolarBoost – Make Your Own USB Solar Mobile Charger
SolarBoost is an open source smart interface that allows you to build your own powerful and portable solar charger for your phone and other mobile devices. It has two USB ports and can provide 5V @ 2A at each of them and is controlled by a 8-bit 32MHz Microchip PIC microcontroller. It...
Continue ReadingGetting Started With the ATMega328P
Here is a detailed guide on how to get started with ATMega328P microcontroller. The guide goes in details on how to setup it on a breadboard and how to upload your first code on it. and blink a led. The real benefit of using this microcontroller is that it’s only $4 US, whereas...
Continue ReadingLow voltage power supply
Dilshan Jayakody has build a low voltage power supply that is able to provide four outputs: 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V and 3.3V. This power supply can be used to power low voltage mcus, CPLDs and analog ICs. He writes: In this post we introduce simple and flexible, regulated low voltage...
Continue ReadingEspruino: JavaScript for Things
Espruino is the world's first JavaScript microcontroller. With it you are able to develop intelligent devices quickly and easily. Espruino is a small computer that anyone can use to control things around them. Its JavaScript interpreter gives you instant feedback so that you can...
Continue ReadingPULPino – An open-source microcontroller system based on RISC-V
PULPino is an open-source microcontroller system, based on a small 32-bit RISC-V core developed at ETH Zurich. The core has an IPC close to 1, full support for the base integer instruction set (RV32I), compressed instructions (RV32C) and partial support for the multiplication...
Continue ReadingHow to Implement Embedded Ethernet
Maurizio @ dev.emcelettronica.com has tipped us with his latest article on how to implement embedded Ethernet on any mcu. The article shows the basic principle of Ethernet implementation. Usually We need embedded systems inside devices, particularly the so-called intelligent devices,...
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