A reason probably reduced the use of the 32 bit family of Microchip’s PIC microcontrollers in hobbistic projects is that those microcontrollers were available only in packages hardly hand-solderable. Starting from November, are now available the first PIC32 in DIP package, at the moment I’m writing: PIC32MX110F016B PIC32MX210F016B PIC32MX120F032B PIC32MX220F032B All in a 28pin package. The main differences between the…
In this article, I’m going to show you how to receive data from serial port, plot them in a chart and send to Pachube.
Sometimes you need to use a device – found in a project downloaded from Internet – in one of your projects; here’s how to do it in Eagle:
OpenHardware, an organization that exists to support, assist, and promote the idea of open hardware has just made available the first issue of its online magazine: even if its layout is quite “home-made”, the magazine is full of interesting topics! http://openhardware.org/journal/
ArduRGB it’s a simple project to show how to drive an RGB led with Arduino. In the GitHub repository you can find the Arduino sketch and a sample program written in C# and in the forum you can ask for informations,requests… [highlight color=”yellow”]Warning: the program described below is designed for a common cathod led, if you need to use…
iTeadStudio has a PCB service similar to the one I described in a previous post. Some days ago, they added a very interesting offer: for 5$ more than the basic cost, you can get 8 (versus 10 in green version) PCB in different colors (black, blu, red, white, yellow). Prices in detail: 8 PCB, max size 5cm x…
After having learned how to list serial ports in our personal computer, in this part 2 we’re going to use them…
If you work on electronic projects, you often need to make them talk with a personal computer: the easiest way to do that is use a serial port (real or emulated by one of those USB->serial adapter you can find in stores or embedded in prototyping platform like Arduino). This tutorial will show you how to write, in…
Among the many online services for PCB manufacturing, I was impressed by the SeeedStudio‘s offering: they aggregate many orders to offer professional service at a very competitive price. I tried out the service ordering 10 PCBs, maximum size 5x5cm, with a price of 9.90$ + 3.52$ for shipping (to Italy) – less then 10 euro. SeeedStudio…