This project is a full color LED-controller that can be configured via a USB connection. The color of the connected LEDs (common anode only) depends on the selected operating mode:Slow color change (ca. 40 minutes),Fast color change (ca. 2 minutes),Temperature base color (temperature range adjustable),Constant color 1,Constant color 2.Constant color 3 and Constant color 4. [...]

The USB Performance monitor is a PIC18F2550 based device which shows the performance of your computer using two analogue meters and a RGB LED. The design is based around a stock Hi-Fi VU-meter which is controlled using PWM from the PIC18F microcontroller. PIC based USB device The hardware is based around the PIC18F2550 microcontroller which [...]

With the coach who started today we bring you a small number of items you can enjoy an 8-bit PIC Performance: the 18F2550. In this first installment will discuss the construction details and particularities of this coach. With the basic and necessary features of today, the development tool will help us to have a working [...]

The little clock is a clock pretty special. In addition to the time (as any clock that is worthy of the name), also shows the room temperature.The clock can indicate the hour and minutes with four 7-segment LED display in the format “HH: MM”, where “:” core consist of two small 3mm LEDs. These displays [...]

We live surrounded by batteries. Everywhere you look there are batteries.Excessive load time can end up destroying the battery. So how do we know when fully charged? Voltage Analyzer With that we show you, this is no longer a problem.The analyzer circuit is built around an LM324 quad operational amplifier (impossible not to have a [...]

This project uses a Microchip PIC microcontroller, a serial EEPROM and a thermistor to create a temperature recorder. The temperature is measured and stored at user programmable intervals; this can be from 1 second to 256 seconds. The time interval is set by programming it and the start time into the EEPROM. The PIC is [...]

This is a good looking and practical device that can be useful in many areas where countdown timer is needed. This project is based on the PIC16F84A microcontroller. The time range can be adjusted between 1 and 999 seconds.   This project  has 3 buttons and one of them is named Set Button. In order to [...]

Whenever I’m away from home for an extended period of time, I would charge my phone and mp3 player from my laptop.  This way, I get about 3 or 4 full charges out of the laptop battery and I could leave the phone and mp3 player chargers at home. The device is based around a [...]

This project Temperature Display using an LM 35 temperature sensor and no less than 70 LEDs driven by a pair of 74ls47′s. Watch out for the format of the drill file, the decimal place is not included and the right 3 digits of each coordinate are fractional. The PCB is single sided and uses SMT [...]

Project separated into two PCBs (PSU+PIC and UI board). The PIC microcontroller PIC12F675 does all the hard work, it emulates remote controller by sending some custom RC5 codes, measures ambient light level and decides whether it is day or night and receives trigger-signal from the IS471F sensor. On this PCB there is a power supply [...]

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to make my own microcontroller-based prototyping board. My original motivation was the unjustified high costs for even the simplest boards (a basic Arduino for $30 – why???) and the challenge of designing something that anyone can make at home within a few hours, with parts that can [...]