Yearly Archives - 2013

proteus

Getting Started with Proteus – Beginners Tutorial

Proteus is a design software developed by Labcenter Electronics for electronic circuit simulation, schematic capture and PCB design. Its simplicity and user friendly design made it popular among electronics hobbyists. Proteus is commonly used for digital simulations such as microcontrollers and microprocessors. It can simulate LED, LDR, USB Communication ... You can buy Proteus from Labcenter Electronics. Switching LED using Push Button Switch First we can start with very primitive circuit for switching an LED using a Push Button...

May 4, 2013By Electronics, Tutorials6 CommentsRead more...
AT89C51

LED Blinking using 8051 Microcontroller and Keil C – AT89C51

8051 Microcontroller is a programmable device which is used for controlling purpose. Basically 8051 controller is Mask programmable means it will programmed at the time of manufacturing and will not programmed again, there is a derivative of 8051 microcontroller, 89c51 micro controller which is re-programmable. AT89C51 89c51 is 8-bit device means it is capable of doing 8-bit operations.  It have 4 ports which are used as input or output according to your need. This device also have Timer, Serial Port interface and Interrupt controlling you can use these according to your need. The datasheet may be downloaded...

May 4, 2013By 8051 Microcontroller, Electronics, Tutorials, , , 38 CommentsRead more...
pcb

PCB Designing using OrCad Layout 10.5

OrCad is a highly developed and complex software that provides affordable and high performance PCB designing tools for small and industrial PCB designers. But for an electronic hobbyist, OrCad may seems to be highly complicated and time consuming when compared to other PCB designing tools. OrCad 9.2 is the commonly used version but it is not compatible with 64 bit and the next best choice is OrCad 10.5 as higher versions of OrCad are highly complicated. Thus in this tutorial, we will show...

May 3, 2013By Electronics, OrCad, Tutorials, 0 CommentsRead more...
GLCD

Interfacing GLCD with PIC Microcontroller

I have already posted about Interfacing character LCD with PIC Microcontrollers. By using GLCD (Graphical LCD) we can present information in a better and user friendly way by using any patterns or shapes. Graphical LCDs are preferred where both character and graphical representation are required. Compared to Character LCD, GLCD is a bit complex and we need a powerful graphic library. MikroC PRO for PIC Microcontrollers provides powerful built in libraries for...

May 1, 2013By MikroC, PIC Microcontroller, Tutorials, , , , , , 16 CommentsRead more...
Inverter

Low Power Square Wave Inverter using CD4047

Inverter is a electrical device that converts DC Power to AC. We usually use the word Inverter for the device used in our households for mains power back up. It stores electrical energy in a battery and discharges it when need. Our household inverters mainly have two parts, Battery Charging Circuit and Inverter Circuit. Battery charging circuit charges the battery when power is available, which may be mains power, solar power or any other sources and the Inverter Circuit convert...

April 13, 2013By Electronics, Hobby Circuits, 1 CommentRead more...
Solar Tracker

Solar Tracker system Using LM358

We all know that a Solar Panel can be used to convert light energy to electrical energy. The amount of converted energy depends on the amount of light falling on the Panel. Generally Solar Panels are stationary devices which is fixed at a position. The produced electrical energy can be increased if we move the solar panel as the movement of the Sun. Here is a simple low cost Solar Tracker circuit which automatically moves the solar panel in the...

April 6, 2013By Electronics, Hobby Circuits, Projects, 64 CommentsRead more...
Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks

There is no iota of doubt that modern world is heading towards smart and bright future which very strongly presents the need of smart environment. The concept of smart environments highlights the requirement of gathering the data from the real world with the help of sensors just like human beings receive the sensory data from the surroundings using sense organs and using that collected data for diverse application areas including environmental, medical, military, transportation, entertainment, crisis management, homeland defence, and...

April 6, 2013By Electronics, , 0 CommentsRead more...
Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

Interfacing Ultrasonic Distance Sensor : ASCII Output with PIC Microcontroller

In some of our projects, we may want to measure the distance of an object from a point. Ultrasonic Distance Sensors are the best sensor which provides stable, accurate, precise, non-contact distance measurements from 2cm to 4m. Ultrasonic Sensors can be used to measure distance between moving or stationary objects. Being very accurate and stable, these devices find large number of applications in robotics fields. For example it can be used as an excellent replacement for IR sensors in  a Micromouse. In...

March 7, 2013By Embedded, MikroC, PIC Microcontroller, PIC Microcontroller, Projects, Tutorials, , , , 92 CommentsRead more...
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