Type4me
Today’s project was designed to solve the need to enter, using a keyboard, the same sequence of characters (a password, a greeting…) many times.
New PIC microcontrollers from Microchip
Microchip has just expanded its K50 line of the PIC18 family with the new version of two widely used PIC microcontrollers, 18F2550 and 18F4550, that now add a “K” in their names: http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en558862 http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en558861 The most interesting feature – these microcontrollers are often used as usb devices – is the ability to use an RC internal oscillator also for USB…
A digital signal injector
Take a look to the Kidogo project, by Dilshan R Jayakody, an engineer from Sri Lanka; it is a very useful digital signal injector with 8 channels: The project is composed by two elements: a board, with Microchip’s PIC18F2550 and USB interface; a software (Kidogo Player) running on a PC that allows to “draw” digital signals. Kidogo…
MPLAB X 1.0!
After some beta versions, today on Microchip forum has been announced the availability of version 1.0 for the development environment MPLAB X. Many new features are present, you can find an overview on product’s homepage; surely the most important is the adoption of a modern IDE, based on NetBeans. Le’ts download!
PIC32 in DIP package
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…