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Arduino Uno Specs: Everything you wanted to know about the Uno but were afraid to ask! Did you know there are FIVE unused features in the Arduino Uno?
Arduino IDE: The Simplest Guide to using the IDE. How to Easily program the Arduino Uno. How to get the Bootloader into the Arduino Chip and how to program chips that are not included in the IDE.
An Arduino Reference: Your Essential Guide to Arduino functions.
They don't
always work the way you think. Find out the pitfalls, and exactly how
these functions should be used, so you can avoid endless debugging and
create your projects fast.
Arduino Temperature Sensors: Arduino Temperature Sensors For Simplified Measurement. How to use Arduino Temperature Sensors for Easy Temperature Measurement from standard room temperature to 1000's of Degrees Centigrade.
Arduino Current Sensors: Your Guide to Arduino Current Sensors for the Arduino. How to measure current from 100nA, to 3.2A, to 8.2A using three different types of sensor, simply by choosing the correct chip.
Arduino Voltage Sensors: The Easiest ADCs to use with Arduinos. ADCs are one of the most useful modules allowing you to easily read analogue voltages inside a digital system.
Arduino Port Expanders: How to Increase the Number of Pins using a serial interface such as I2C or SPI. Some chips are far more capable than others - find out which in the link.
ATtiny85: A Power Packed Arduino in a Tiny 8 Pin Chip. The smallest Arduino Chip! FOUR features you missed! Find How Good It is and how you can Easily program it over USB with no USB Hardware!
PCF8574: This may
be the simplest (internal architecturally speaking) port expander
- easy to program and works very well. There are no internal control
registers yet it has full bi-directional capability (they call it quasi
bi-directional - but still useful). How is this magic achieved?
Magnetometer Tilt Compensation - how to use a HMC5883L or QST5883L and an ADXL345 (accelerometer) to tilt compensate a digital compass.
HMC5883L - How to use this magnetometer as a compass (actually how to get any reading out of it at all!).
INA219 - A digital (I2C)
Current meter; Measuring current and power used. This is for low volt
systems <=26V but gives highly accurate current voltage and power
measurements.
ACS712 - A Hall Effect medium current (±5A, ±20A,±30A) measuring device which It can also withstand 2100Vrms!
ACS758 - A Hall Effect High current (50A~200A) measuring chip with analogue output. It can also withstand 700Vrms!
MCP4725 - A digital (I2C) controlled DAC and a look at the related MCP4726.
MCP4728 - A 4 output digitally controlled DAC (I2C).
MCP4922 - A two output digitally controlled DAC (SPI). How fast does it go?
PCF8591 - A 4 input I2C ADC. This is an ADC with 8 bit resolution and has a differential input capability, and also includes a DAC.
TP4056 - How to use this Lithium ion/poly battery charger the right way.
DW01A - Lithium ion/poly battery protector. This is used in the TP4056 board.
ADXL345 - How to use the ADXL345 accelerometer to measure roll and pitch.
ADS1115 - How to use this 16 ADC to measure 7.8uV. This is a precision device that you can use to make accurate measurements. It can even measure a small range of negative voltage - useful for sink/source current measurements.
MCP3008 - Find out if this ADC is as good as it claims. Do you need a 10 bit; 8 channel ADC with a high sample rate? This could be the right one. Find out how to optimize it for the best sample rate here.
AD9833 - Make a signal generator using the DDS chip to 12.5MHz. Outputs sine, square and triangle waves with a resolution of 0.1Hz.
MAX7219 - How to drive 8x8 led displays using this chip.
DS18B20 - Use the one-wire thermometer to measure accurate temperature; multi drop and long distance.
DHT22 - Also DHT11 (lower spec) - Measure humidity and temperature.
TCS230 - Let your microcontroller see colour!
HD44780 - LCD display driving. Usually a 16 character by 2 line display but can be 20x4.
MCP23017 - A 16 bit port expander (I2C) with comprehensive interrupt system.
MCP23017 Interrupts - Using multiple MCP23017 with interrupts.
BMP280 - Barometric pressure measurement.
Battery Charger - How to charge standard AA batteries.
Pulse Rate - Measurement See your pulse rate using infrared sensors.
Rotary Encoder - How to use them and make even noisy ones behave!
Arduino Joystick - Making the joystick easy to use with a useful library.
MAX6675 - How to measure temperature from 0ºC to 1024ºC
Logic level converter - How to convert logic levels using a MOSFET Trick!
SSD1306 - How to write text and graphics to this 1" display.
How to install and use the Digispark Attiny85
ATtiny Programmer - How to program ATtiny series chips using an Arduino Uno (or other Uno) as an ISP programmer.
How to unbrick an ATtiny chip
- Includes turning the ATtiny programmer into an High Volt Programmer
(HVP) with 4 components and a power supply as well as a program to set
fuse values from the serial command line.
Arduino Nano ISP - How to burn a
bare-board Arduino using an Arduino Nano. You end up
with about 4 components - just use a USB to serial adapter and a 5V
power supply.
ATtiny Ultra Low Power
- If you are looking to get maximum use out of a battery then you need
to know how to lower the power usage of an ATtiny chip. Here you can see
the effects of clock speed and supply voltage and how to use Burst mode
effectively.
Three switch debouncing methods on Arduino : One is amazing and not to be missed!
Arduino Capacitive Sensor Sense objects using only a wire and an ADC input.
Arduino ADC - How it works; Find out its resolution and more.
Should you should divide by 1023 or 1024 in ADC calculations?
Arduino voltage reference - The internal voltage reference is often overlooked. Find out how to use it and make it accurate and reliable.
Arduino Analog Output - How to smooth PWM signals and create sine waves.
Arduino EEPROM - How to read and write EEPROM.
EEPROM has a lifetime - make sure you don't use it up all at once!
Arduino toggle switch - How to create a toggle switch operation using a standard single push button switch.
Arduino Absolute Value - is abs() simple - it should be! - there are pitfalls!
Arduino delay() - How to delay the processor so a human can see events!
Arduino digitalWrite() - How to write a binary signal to the 0-5V output pin.
digitalWrite
is a very useful generic function but you can operate 17 times faster
using direct write macros - all explained in the link above.
Arduino millis() - Time events using milliseconds without stopping the processor.
Arduino pulseIn() and pulseInLong() - How to measure pulse inputs.
ESP8266 Arduino IDE - Learn how to program an ESP8266 using the Arduno IDE.
NodeMCU Firmware - Return the LUA scripting language back into an ESP8266.
ESPLorer - How to use ESPLorer to upload lua scripts to an ESP module.
NodeMCU Examples - from simple LED blink to wifi use.
PIC Introduction - An introduction to PIC
Microcontrollers.
PIC Programming - All about programmers, ICSP and
ICPROG
PIC Compilers - Find out why you should use a PIC compiler.
Basic compiler - learn about a free PICBSIC compiler.
PIC Tutorials - More formal tutorial information on microcontrollers and protocols.
Schematic tool -A useful tool for drawing,
netlisting electronic schematic diagrams.
Books - Some useful books.
16F877 : 50MHz LCD frequencycounter.
16F877 : 50MHz 7 segment frequencycounter.
16F877 : LCD and Keypad using one 8 bit port (noglue logic).
Direct jump to locked page (needs unlock code)
16F88 : Ultrasonic range finding project.
16F88 : A Real Time Clock (DS1307) using I2C.
16F88 : Driving an LED dot matrix.
16F88 : Universal Infrared Receiver (UIR).
12F675 : Tutorial 12F675 : RS232 Serial transmitter12F675 : Serial Temperature Logger
12F675 : EEPROM Temperature logger
12F675 : Servo motor - serial control
Devices | ||
12F675 | 16F84 | |
Hardware | ||
PIC Introduction | ICSP | Interrupts |
Software | ||
MikroC compiler | ||
Protocols | ||
I2C | RS232 | Setting up RS232 |
SPI | ||
Techniques | ||
Frequency counting | Ultrasonic range finding | Software Tri PWM |
Multiplexing | CCP (capture) | Soft PWM |
Timer 1 (polled) |
All about programming PIC Microcontrollers.
PIC micro programming methods.
Frequency
counter techniques: Direct and Reciprocal counting methods.
Simple multitasking method (works for 12F675 and larger).
Microcontroller Debugging methods (also general debugging methods).
Hardware interrupts - a short introduction.
How to use the MC78M05BDTRKG voltage regulator.
A new C course showing you how to use C to program a microcontroller (no
previous programming experience needed).
Pic C Course (digital download).
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