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Digital Voltmeter LED Display

Here is another modification of a digital voltmeter. This time with 7 – Segment LED Display. These circuits seems to be more popular than other designs so I’ve decided to  publish another variant. You can find 4 variations of digital voltmeter on ...
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Digitally Controlled Power Supply 2

This is an update to a recent post on a subject of building a Digitally Controlled Power Supply. In part 1 a basic configuration was presented. In this version a numbers of modifications were made to software/hardware to produce a more advanced ...
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Sine wave generator PCF8591 I2C Arduino

The topic of this post is building sine wave generator based on Arduino UNO and PCF8591 8-bit A/D and D/A converter. For similar design with PIC micro-controller look at this link. Raspberry Pi version based on MCP4725 DAC available at ...
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RFID Security Access Using Arduino

In this post I’ll show you how to build a RFID reader for security access based on Arduino MEGA board. The code I've used is a modified version of a design that was published at Arduino project hub. I added ...
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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 ...
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Arduino 7-Segment LED Display MAX7219

MAX7219 is a serial input/output common-cathode display driver. It can interface the microcontroller to 7-segment numeric LED displays, bar-graph displays, dot matrix display or  individual LEDs. This IC has some very useful features like built in decoder, multiplex scan circuitry, ...
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7-Segment Display Counter with Arduino

Recently I’ve published a basic Binary to Hexadecimal converter design based on Atmega 2560 chip. The same set up can be used for building a simple UP/Down counter with Arduino Mega compatible board. 7-Segment display and its I/O stayed the same ...
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3 Digit Up Down Counter PIC16F877A

3 Digit Up Down Counter shown here is based on PIC16F877A microcontroller. The count is shown on the 2x16 LCD display and the direction is controlled by a switch connected to bit 3 of PORTA. With minimal changes the attached ...
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Simple Digital Voltmeter

Simple digital voltmeter can be built by using PIC microcontroller and a few discrete components. PIC16F877A 10 bit ADC module was used for this purpose, we’ll work only with 8 upper bits to translate input voltage to digital form and ...
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Arduino Ohm Meter

Arduino Ohm Meter is one of the simplest circuits that can be built with minimal number of required components. As can be seen from design schematic a standard 2x16 LCD display and 3 resistors are all you need to complete ...