Microcontrollers

Mikroelektronica, beign the nice guys they are released another free e-book about programming PIC microcontrollers this time it’s about programming in C. The title is, unsurprisingly: PIC Microcontrollers – Programming in C What are microcontrollers, anyway? Electronics built in one single chip capable of controlling a small submarine, a crane or an elevator… It’s...
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This is a converter I wrote with the graphics library for the PIC16F microcontrollers. Others work but this one works for sure. If you want to see the source code (I’m not particulary proud of it )  drop a comment and I’ll send it to you. If the bitmap is smaller than 128×64 it...
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Not that I’m not happy with the default mikroC library for the KS0108 graphic displays, as I always I wanted something with the source available. Considering that I’m a beginner with microcontrolers having the source available to hack around is a very valuable learning tool. The project is based on the source found here:...
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I have a small example that should get you going with the PIC 12F675 microcontroller and mikroC PRO. I am using the EasyPIC5 development board but I am sure you can adapt it to many development systems. It’s just a small introduction you can use as a tutorial on getting started with a comon,...
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Finally, after years of putting it away, after a few design changes and a fried motherboard I have a linux jukebox. Well, not a jukebox but more an internet radio. When I first had the ideea I noticed an old ~ ’50s Blaupunkt Radio my father had in his basement. I investigated if the...
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My favourite microcontroler for now is PIC16F887. I will soon try to build some projects using the 18F series, but for now my Nixi clock and planned LED cube I will use th e16F887. No, I didn’t gave up, I plan to start work on the nixie projects ASAP. Program Memory Type Flash Program...
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Yes, I know, mikroC has it’s own ADC library, but as always I am a sucker for open source. So I decided to write my own adc read function, so I can better understand the PIC ADC converter operation. And, in the good spirit of open source I decided to share my code. The...
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As you might have noticed from my posts I am always in for a free lunch. So, this would be free lunch for your brain. Even if you don’t use or plan to use Mikroelektronika products you might want to know that they have a free book about PIC microcontrolers on their website: here....
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This is a small project I did for school. I am using the easypic 5 board from mikroelectronica to display a linegraph of the temperature read every second by the DS1820 sensor and displays it on the KS0108 based GLCD. I am using the OneWire and GLCD libraries that come with the mikroC compiler....
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Attaching an LCD screen to a pc is a pretty easy job. I am working on a jukebox that I wanted to a screen attached to. Although a HD44780 based LCD can be attached to the parallel port with almost no additional parts I wanted a more flexible solution, and I thought about microcontrollers...
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