Arduino with 74HC595 and 7-Segment
74HC595 is a discrete shift register IC that can be easily integrated with Arduino platform. Usually shift registers are used to convert a serial data to a parallel output. Additional shift registers can be connected in series extending the number ...
Dual Voltmeter Amperemeter LCD
In this post a simple Digital Dual Voltmeter and Ampere meter design will be shown. It uses PIC16F876A microcontroller and 2x16 LCD display and has 2 input channels for measuring voltage in 0-25v range and current up to 500mA. The ...
LCD Voltmeter based on Arduino
This post is about building a simple 0-5V 3 digit voltmeter using Arduino UNO compatible board and 4x20 LCD display. This design should also work on all similar boards, I’ve tested it on Arduino Mega and UNO boards. No additional ...
Solar Tracking System
This post is about designing a simple PIC microcontroller based Solar Tracking system. It requires some basic electronics skills and good motor coordination. This design uses 2 unipolar stepper motors and 4 IR-850nm LEDs as sensors to follow the sun ...
Basic counter with RGB LED 2812 Pixel Matrix Shield
In this post I’ll show how to interface a Keyestudio 40 RGB LED 2812 Pixel Matrix Shield with Arduino UNO compatible board. Each LED on this shield has an integrated chip WS2812 and can be individually controlled. Attached Arduino code ...
Arduino with DS3231 Real Time Clock
In this post I’ll show you how to interface a RTC module DS3231 Real Time Clock with Arduino. This particular module uses I2C protocol to transfer current time to a micro controller. DS3231 library and header files should be installed ...
Basic LCD Frequency Counter with Raspberry Pi
Basic Frequency Counter with Raspberry Pi can be built in less than 15 minutes and does not require any additional components. The input signal is a square wave with 3v amplitude connected to one of Raspberry I/O pins.Design schematic is ...
PIC16F877A Digital Clock
This is PIC16F877A microcontroller based digital clock with 7-Segment display. For this project LTC3710HR was used, however the schematic can be easily adjusted to incorporate larger displays.LTC3710HR is 0.3 inch quadruple digit multiplex common cathode display.Main consideration for choosing the display ...
Digital Alarm Clock
Digital Alarm Clock design based on PIC16F876A will be demonstrated in this post. Various modules from earlier project were implemented in current design hardware and source code. For example it uses the same 7-Segment Display and multiplexing routing as in ...
3.5 Digit Dot Matrix LED Display
In this post I'll show you how two QDSP-L149 5x7 dot matrix LED Displays can be used to create a 4 Digit display module. The trick is to change the roles of rows and columns. So now each 5x7 Dot ...
