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...
View ArticlePIC Microcontroller project – 24 hour clock and thermometer displayed via...
I got to thinking that an interest in hi-fi can be a bit geek ( in a good way ) so I thought one of my latest geek projects might be of interest to some of you. You could build the project ‘as is’...
View Article18 PIN PIC Development Board
The PIC 18 PIN (DIP) Development / Evaluations Board demonstrates the capabilities of Microchip’s 8-bit microcontrollers, specifically, 18 Pin PIC16F1847. It can be used as a standalone demonstration...
View ArticleElectronic Quiz Buzzer Circuit Diagram using PIC Microcontroller
Usually high level quiz competitions are very much time-oriented as it becomes significant to determine who has answered first. So here we’ll see how to make a buzzer system that helps to decide the...
View ArticlePIC Microcontroller Architecture and Applications
PIC microcontroller was developed in the year 1993 by microchip technology. The term PIC stands for Peripheral Interface Controller. Initially this was developed for supporting PDP computers to control...
View ArticleAutomatic Temperature Control System using PIC Microcontroller – XC8
An automatic temperature control system has the ability to monitor and control the temperature of a specified space without human intervention. The primary purpose is to manage the temperature of a...
View ArticlePIC – First Project
Programming in PIC microcontroller can be done by using assembly language or by using Embedded C because of the ease of writing code.We have used done the programming through Embedded C language.For...
View ArticleLow cost temperature data logger using PIC and Processing
This project describes an easy and inexpensive way of adding a digital thermometer and data logging feature to a PC. It involves a PIC microcontroller that gets the surrounding temperature information...
View ArticleThermometer with PIC Microcontroller
In the last tutorial we learn about the multiplexing technique used with seven segment displays. We learnt how it saves i/o line by using persistence of vision. Only one digit is lit at a time, but to...
View ArticleExtend I/O Ports using PIC Microcontroller
The mikroC PRO for PIC provides a library for communication with the Microchip’s Port Expander MCP23S17 via SPI interface. Connections of the PIC compliant MCU and MCP23S17 is given on the schematic at...
View ArticleCreate Musical Tone using PIC Code
The mikroC PRO for PIC provides a Sound Library to supply users with routines necessary for sound signalization in their applications. Sound generation needs additional hardware, such as piezo-speaker...
View ArticleConnect Ethernet controller with PIC Code
The ENC28J60 is a stand-alone Ethernet controller with an industry standard Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). It is designed to serve as an Ethernet network interface for any controller equipped with...
View ArticleUART Communication using PIC Code
The UART hardware module is available with a number of PIC compliant MCUs. The mikroC PRO for PIC UART Library provides comfortable work with the Asynchronous (full duplex) mode. You can easily...
View ArticlePIC Evaluation/Development Board Implementation using pic-microcontroller
Abstract The objective of this project is to produce a PIC evaluation/development board to be used by future ECPE senior design project teams. Many project implementations call for some sort of...
View ArticleConnect Matrix Keypad with PIC Controller Code
The mikroC PRO for PIC provides a library for working with 4×4 keypad. The library routines can also be used with 4×1, 4×2, or 4×3 keypad. For connections explanation see schematic at the bottom of...
View ArticleConnect I²C with PIC
The I²C full master MSSP module is available with a number of PIC MCU models. mikroC PRO for PIC provides library which supports the master I²C mode. Important : Some MCUs have multiple I²C modules....
View ArticleSerial Data Logger with PIC microcontroller
The data logger consists of a simple op-amp amplifier circuit that amplifies the signal and sends it to be digitized by a PIC16F688 microcontroller, serialized, and sent to the computer’s serial port...
View ArticleSeven Segment Display Thermometer with PIC Microcontroller
The seven segment display is one of the most popular numeric displays used in many microcontroller applications because it’s cheap, robust and reliable. The seven segments actually consists of 8 LED...
View ArticleIntroducing PIC Microcontroller projects
PIC Microcontroller Development Tools History PIC microcontroller Development Board (Completed on 2006-10-28) The ultimate PIC Microcontroller development board. After years of programming PIC...
View ArticlePIC based WWVB clock
Introduction There are many DIY versions of WWVB clock designs available on the web. Commercial “atomic” clocks are inexpensive and widely available, but I wanted to try my hand at designing one to...
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