Here's a little information about me and this site:
Electronics and computing has always been one of my interests ever since I
was at school. At that time all you had were the discrete 74 series TTL and
4000 series CMOS chips and I remember being fascinated by those strange little
boxes with legs! and learning about each one.
At college I took A level
electronics and passed with an A grade, then onto a university course in
electronic engineering where I achieved a BSc 2.1 with honours (Bachelor
of Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom).
From there I went into an electronics career starting out in communications
(at GEC Hirst Research Center) where we designed and built a
multi drop (single wire) telephony system using FPGAs using VHDL and
Verilog.
Then some very annoying projects in a very old system of Windows Basic -
sometimes it is better to start over than re-do existing s/w that takes ages to
understand and then be limited by the language you are forced to use! Rant
over!
Then onto many different projects including military stuff using an 196KC
embedded microcontroller programmed in C. After this using Altera 10k series
and VHDL for a mobile telephone tester system.
Of course this is a small summary! There was a recession in the middle where I had time to build an 8051 assembler and lots more.
One trouble when doing hardware or software in industry is you tend to
be labelled as either a hardware or software engineer - the trouble is I am
equally fascinated with both.
This is one of the reasons that this site was made - it allows me to
combine
hardware and software skills to develop interesting
projects! Plus you get to share in these projects and
hopefully learn a bit
of software / hardware along the way.
I hope you enjoy the projects on the site and use them to learn about programming and hardware and especially those magical microcontrollers.
How this site was created
This bit is not about me but about this site. When I first got into creating a presence on the web I completely failed (as most people do) and was only able to create a useful site by following the solid advice given by Ken Evoy and Team.
However credit must be given for, in my opinion (and experience),"The only website business building system that works". If you are interested in building your own online business then I suggest you click the link and find out how to do it right; by-the-way do not follow any other system - you will likely fail. If you do try another system, and inevitably fail, remember what I said and come back here (after about 2-6 years of pain).
Here's a bit more about how I made this website:
My Solo Build It Review written by John Main (Webmaster of best-microcontroller-projects.com).
Note: Except for the above link: Nowhere else will you find me talking about SBI on this site, as his desire is for as many people as possible to succeed online and that means providing information you want (not business building).
Best Regards John Main
Webmaster of https://www.best-microcontroller-projects.com.
With the ADXL345 acellerometer you can detect up to 16g! You can also find out how to use it for tap detection and more.
HMC5883L - How make a digital compass, Find out the differences between the HMC5883L and the QMC5883L and whether they are compatible.
Easily use an ESP8266 with the Arduino IDE and program your first sketch into the ESP8266
The MCP4725 chip is a 12 bit DAC with memory that outputs voltage that you can use for many dfferent purposes. Find out what they are in this page.
PCF8591: A four input ADC with single DAC. How good is this 8 bit ADC, and should you use it in your next project?
Arduino Nano ISP: How to program an ATmega328P using an Arduino Nano as the ISP programmmer. One common problem: Programming a sketch into the chip without a reset control - solved here.
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