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 ...
Photoresistor Light Sensor Arduino
A simple light sensor can be built using a photoresistor and Arduino UNO board. Similar design is available here. This design requires only a few additional components like 10k resistor and a 10k potentiometer to adjust the light intensity level ...
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 ...
LED Aquarium Lighting
Recently I was asked to build an aquarium lighting controller prototype to provide variable brightness during its operation and ability to program ON/OFF times. 25 blue and white diffused 10mm LED were used to illuminate the aquarium. The main requirement from ...
Interfacing VFD with PIC Microcontroller
Vacuum fluorescent display can be a good alternative to a Liquid-crystal displays in some applications. They have a number of advantages over LCD like extended temperature range and excellent contrast in high brightness environment. The main disadvantage is higher power consumption ...
AD9850 PIC16F Interface
A simple wave generator should be a part of every electronics enthusiast toolset. Basic Sine/Square output in reasonable frequency range will be sufficient for general use. Luckily such generators are available in form of a very popular AD9850 module. Search ...
High Power LED Controller
This post is about building a simple LED controller circuit. Several articles were published on this subject. Here is just one link to similar design that can be useful. Search the site for more information. Current design relies on well-known technique to ...
PCF8574 I2C 8-bit I/O expander
In this post we’ll review a simple interface for PCF8574 I2C 8-bit IO expander IC and PIC microcontroller. For similar Arduino based implementation click this link. The format of present post is similar to 2 recently published tutorials about I2C ...
Humidity and Temperature Sensor DHT11 with Arduino
Interfacing Humidity and Temperature Sensor DHT11 with Arduino platform is the topic of this post. I’ve published a number of designs with various temperature sensor, both digital and analog. Here you can see how to use LM75A digital sensor with ...
8×8 LED Dot Matrix Display with Arduino
In this article I’m going to show you how an 8x8 LED Dot Matrix Display can be driven by MAX7219 with Arduino.There are 2 similar designs. PIC16F876 version is available at this link ,for circuit based on 74HC595 click here.For this project ...
