AVR Microcontroller Circuits
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AVR ISP interface (optional but handy if you don`t like the boot loader, are too poor for a JTAG or AVR studio just crashed and disabled the on chip debugging ;) ) The following is the up to date bill of materials for the latest version of the PCB. The parts.... -
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LED displays are nothing more than sets of Light Emitting Diodes. The difference is that they have different shapes in order to display specific information. So driving LED displays is the same as regular LEDs. This is simple connection when there are enough.... -
To drive relay you need more than 20mA the current can one pin drive. This is why you cannot connect relay directly to microcontrollers pin. To drive relay you need to connect simple amplifier made of one transistor. This circuit is more general as instead.... -
Diode D1 and resistor R1 provide the VDD isolation when programming the 24 pin devices. The jumper J3 must be shorted for 24 pin devices, and open circuit for 28 pin device programming. Following EEPROMs are pin compatible with their EPROMs version, .. -
IR remote control is a device you can find everywhere where you can find TV, VCR or home theatre. Why not to use one of them for controlling your own devices like light, air conditioning etc. As we know remote control devices uses IR light. This is invisible.... -
In many situations you need some kind of human interface to your microcontroller project. In this example is interfacing AVR microcontroller to standard PC AT keyboard described. According to keyboard timing diagram in bellow picture the keyboard transfers.... -
This simple AVR Programmer able to transfer hex programs to most ATMEL AVR microcontrollers. It is more reliable than most other simple AVR programmers available out there and can be built in very short amount of time. This Programmer support the AVR.... -
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface has become extremely popular, due to its simplicity for end user applications (Plug and Play without restart). For developers, however, USB implementation into end systems has been more complicated compared to e. g..... -
This is the second part of my USB tutorial for ATtiny2313 and V-USB library. In the first part we learned how to get 3. 3V from USB to power our circuits. In this part, we will expand our setup with following parts: Update: Some people have noted that the.... -
In previous article about the Atmel AVR We have only blinked with LEDs, without influence of events outside the microprocessor. All ports operated only as outputs, there was no input. Now we will show how to connect control buttons to the microcontroller and.... -
This is probably the simplest possible digital voltmeter with Atmel AVR microcontroller and LCD display. The circuit is controlled by a microprocessor IO1 - AVR Atmel ATmega16A, ATmega16L, ATmega16, ATmega32A, ATmega32L or ATmega32. Below is a program to.... -
This is a very simple digital thermometer with an Atmel AVR microprocessor, measuring the temperature in range of 2 to 99 °C (degree Celsius) with a resolution of 1 °C. The circuit is controlled by a microprocessor IO1 - Atmel AVR ATmega8, ATmega8L or.... -
Now you can burn microcontrollers in your home with less cost of making AT89S51 series microcontroller burning IC kit. AT89Sxx series IC`s have inbuilt ISP (In System Programming) module so we can burning microcontroller easily. Here is the simple board.... -
This is an easy to build X-Y oscilloscope. To try this an ATmega324P and two KAD0820 (same as National Semiconductor`s ADC0820 ) were used. Originally this oscilloscope was built around an AT90S4414 hence the external AD converters. Some rose and Lissajous.... -
Nowadays, USB is the most popular connection connection between PC and peripherals such as AVR programmers, printers, scanners etc. For that reason I had to modify my old serial AVR In-System-Programmer (ISP) to work with USB connection. You can say, "use a.... -
FT232RL USB to Serial UART (TTL) Adapter is a simple and inexpensive way to connect PIC, AVR or ATMEGA MCUs to a PC or Mac via USB connection. FT232RL is an impressive chip because it implements full v2. 0 USB protocol, needs no external crystal, has.... -
This is simple to build AVR programmer for Atmel microcontrollers from AVR family. The microcontrollers must support serial programming. AVR programmer is connected to a PC through the RS232 serial interface and can be used with the PonyProg or Avrdude.... -
Here is a very simple project of controlling a small DC-motor (taken from an old personal cassette player) with ATmega8. The ATmega8 is having three PWM channels, out of which two are used here. PWM waveforms are fed to MOSFET (RFD3055) H-bridge. Here,.... -
A PB-12N23PW-05Q buzzer and I`m trying to use it with ATmega 162. I can`t connect it directly to pin, because from what I`ve read from 162`s datasheet, it can source at most 20 mA. The buzzer takes 50 (or around 25, if we take a look at the graph), so I.... -
The 5 V from USB seems to be powering the led on my laptop power brick. Hence even when I switched the power brick off at the wall outlet, the led is still on. When I unplug the USB it goes off but comes back on again as soon as I plug it in. Do Ijust but a.... -
An Atmega32A chip and I`ve been trying to program it with a usbasp for quite a few hours. I can change the fuses and write the program, but verification fails. The chip can be erased and fuses can be changed, my only problem is with the verification. The.... -
Designing a controller PCB for a 10x10 white LED matrix clock (inspired by the tutorial here ). It`s based off an ATmega328 AVR IC and Maxim DS3234 SPI RTC. However, I`m stuck: I have no idea how to control my custom non-standard 10x10 LED matrix. Originally.... -
On the bottom you will see a 74AC125 which is a Quad Buffer with Tri-State Outputs. I`ve seen quite a few buffers like this on programmers. but im not exactly sure what they do Im assuming whatever "CTL" is controls the "state" of the buffers. but what.... -
Building a serial servo controller to learn about electronics and assembly language as part of my hexapod robot project. Quite early on I decided that I needed more I/O channels than my ATTiny2313 that I was using at the time supported so I investigated some.... -
If I use the internal 1. 1V reference for the ADC, and my Analog input exceeds 1. 1V, lets say 2. 5V, is that harmful to my microcontroller Or will ADC value simply clip (to 0x3FF) at 1. 1V Speaking from experience alone, not from datasheet references, so be.... -
Arduino Uno has a ATMEGA328P-PU microcontroller, and bunch of other stuff on the board. I`d like to program the chip without the Arduino software, and only the minimum of other components. I want to eventually create things without the cost of Arduino, and I....
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This project fits more for custom made battery casing that can have more space to hide things inside. This switch with few alterations can be used for any other project as well but is designed based on e-bike needs! This project use a clever functionality of.... -
The circuit described here uses ultrasonic oscillations and operates based on the propagation velocity of these oscillations in the air. Thus, we can easily determine the distance of two points if the time within which the wave travels this distance is.... -
Sometimes the precious metals are hidden too deep and are not detected except with complicated devices. In many cases, however, small pieces of precious metal buried near the surface can be detected by relatively simple means. Everyone is very attractive to.... -
Many times for various reasons we forget or can not water the plants that we have in our homes. And many humidity sensors units just notify us with a beeping sound or with a flashing light, that the pot needs watering. But what if we are away from home? This.... -
The principle behind a metal detector is really very simple. Proof of this is the circuit that follows, in which it proves that the construction of a metal detector can be done in the minute, with few components that we find very easily everywhere. With the.... -
The sub-harmonic bass generator is a sound producing unit for guitars. The sound it produces looks very much like that of the bass guitar. The octave generator is sometimes quite unusual since it does not produce any of the usual ways of coloring the sound,.... -
In the past the sounding (sea bottom measurement) was done with the "bullet", that is, with a heavy lead object that the seamen plucked into the sea hung from a calibrated rope. As soon as the "bullet" reached the bottom, the depth appeared directly from the.... -
This Amplifier was designed to have the following specifications: Distortion less than 0.1% at full power of 100W even at 20KHz. Power has to be attributed to an extended bandwidth. The output transistors must be protected against short circuits. The power.... -
A series of LEDs serve to alert the gardener when plants need water. Using two conventional digital integrated LEDs and a series of LEDs, we make a very useful device for gardening. The device detects the amount of water in the pot and alerts the grower.....
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