Steve's Electronic and Microcontroller Projects and Info.Steve's Electronic and Microcontroller Projects and Info.Don't ignore the Texas MPS 430 series - they've got potential (10 years life on one lithium cell! - can't get them from Maplins yet thou). My favourite for the last 3 years now is the Atmel AVR series micros - betters the PIC series and cheaper too.
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Ultrasonic Range-finding, Proximity detection and Inter-Mobile robot communications
Thermal and Textural Feedback for Telepresence
Weather station
Keyboard interfacing info. and Viewer Software - My PC AT keyboard code viewer; uses a 16C84 and 20x2 LCD display (can use 16, 24, 32, or 40 x 2 LCD displays by changing one line). Also gives example LCD driver code, queuing code, and wait macro. (Ver 1.11). Now with circuit diagram in GIF.
Character LCD tester - This code was originally written for people having a problem with their circuitry when building my AT keyboard viewer, and is also useful for checking an LCD and wiring is working correctly; uses a 16C84 and character LCD display.
Low level code for driving a Character LCD from the Atmel AVR microcontrollers - In case AVR'er were feeling left out - I would have more code for the AVR on this page, (as they are currently my favourite for medium complexity designs), but a). I'm too busy, and b). Most of the code is for my employer.
Graphic LCD tester - Quick test circuit and code for Toshiba T6963C based graphic displays. Tested on a 240x64 display, but should work with all other sizes.
My small mobile robot - work in progress
Bourns ACE 128 Decoder routines - Short routines to decode the Bourns(tm) 128 position Absolute Contacting Encoders (ACE(tm)). The offical way to decode them is to use a 256 byte look-up table, but for a PIC this can be too much code space for comfort, so try these shorter decoder routines. Also:-
The PIC look-up table version for the Bourns ACE copied straight from the data sheet; for those with wads of PIC memory!
Various data loggers circuits, code and a run-down of the storage devices worth using, with logged capacities upto 100 of MBytes
version 0.11 - Demo Code for reading a Dallas DS1820 digital temperature sensor, and displaying the sensor's ID and temperature on a 2 x 20 (or larger) character LCD (temperature is shown both as raw data, and as a degrees C temperature to 2 decimal places of resolution) Uses a 16C84, gives example code for reading any dallas one wire bus chips, extending temperature resolution, multiplying and dividing. Circuit diagram GIF included.I am available for small amounts of consultancy / contract work...for the right money. However it has to be interesting!
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