Temperature Controlled Fan
Here is another fan controller design based on PIC microcontroller, this time it's temperature controlled and can be used to monitor Hard Drive temperature and adjust the fan speed accordingly or as a case fan controller. This post following recently ...
LCD voltmeter based on ADS1015 with Raspberry Pi
LCD voltmeter with Raspberry Pi and ADS1015 is the topic of this project. Similar design for Arduino platform is available at this link. ADS1015 is a 12 bit ADC chip with 4 analog input channels. The interface with Raspberry Pi ...
Stepper Motor Controller with Arduino
Basic Stepper Motor Controller can be built with Arduino board and a few additional components like MOSFET switches and a potentiometer to control unipolar stepper motor speed and direction. The principle of operation is relatively simple. When a potentiometer is ...
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 ...
Digital Voltmeter VFD Display
This is a new revision of 10 bit Digital Voltmeter. For Arduino based voltmeter click here. Recently I’ve published a few voltmeter designs ranging from a simple LED display voltmeters with 8 bit of resolution to a more complex with 10bit ...
Arduino Up Down Counter LCD
Up Down Counter design based on Arduino MEGA compatible board is the topic of this article.it uses 2x16 LCD display to show the counter values and 4x3 keypad to input initial 3 digit number.The counter will count Up/Down according to ...
Raspberry Pi and 74HC595 Shift Register
Raspberry Pi I/O capabilities can be expanded by adding one or cascading a number of shift registers. In this design 74HC595 example is shown. 74HC595 is a very popular and relatively cheap IC. There are assembled modules based on this ...
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 ...
Arduino Base Converter with 4×4 Keypad and I2C LCD
Arduino hexadecimal to binary Base Converter is a simple design that can be built using 4×4 Keypad and I2C LCD display module. Arduino MEGA board was chosen as a target device. This circuit will wait for a single digit to ...
Thermocouple Amplifier MAX31855 with Arduino
Interfacing a Thermocouple with Arduino platform can be easily done by integrating a MAX31855 to your project. This IC is a Cold-Junction Compensated Analog to Digital Converter amplifier especially design for use with a Thermocouple. The converter provides 14-Bit of ...