PCB Designing: 20 Essential Tips for Success

Creating a printed circuit board (PCB) is like building the brain of your electronic gadgets. To help you design a functional and reliable PCB, here are twenty important things you should keep in mind, explained in simple terms: Placing Components in the Right Spots: Think of your PCB like a puzzle. Each electronic part, called a component, has its own special place on the board. Just as you wouldn't mix up puzzle pieces, don't mix up your components. Proper placement ensures...

August 11, 2023By Ligo GeorgeElectronics, PCB Designingpcb, PCB Design, PCB Designing, PCB Manufacturing, SMT, SMT Assembly0 CommentsRead more...

PCB Prototyping Simplified by PCBWay

Join me as I recount a personal journey that completely revolutionized my electronics engineering experience. At the outset of my ventures in the world of electronics, crafting PCBs proved to be an arduous and time-consuming task, putting my patience to the test with toner transfer methods and the complexities of local manufacturing. However, the challenges didn't stop there; I constantly found myself racing against time to procure elusive components, leading to frustrating delays in my projects. While there were various tools...

August 11, 2023By Ligo GeorgeElectronics, PCB Designingpcb, PCB Design, PCB Designing, PCB Manufacturing, SMT, SMT Assembly0 CommentsRead more...

PCB Manufacturing Simplified by JLCPCB

During the beginning of my electronics engineering journey I used to make PCBs at home using toner transfer method. Later I used to do screen printing and also manufacture PCBs locally. Then I used to assemble components myself. In all these methods PCB manufacturing itself is a time consuming process. Sometimes some components won't be readily available in the market which will further take more time to arrange. Recently I have come across

September 7, 2021By Ligo GeorgeElectronics, PCB Designingpcb, PCB Design, PCB Designing, PCB Manufacturing, SMT, SMT Assembly0 CommentsRead more...

Remote Debugging of Embedded Systems

Most of us are working from home during this COVID-19 pandemic situation. I have personally struggled to debug some of my hardwares remotely. Today I am going to introduce a completely new method for remote debugging of embedded systems. Using this method you can debug a remote system as if it is connected to your local computer. Here we are using a software named, USB Network Gate developed by...

October 28, 2020By Ligo GeorgeElectronics, PromotionalDebugging, Embedded, IAR, Network, USB0 CommentsRead more...

Microcontroller vs Microprocessor

The term microprocessor and microcontroller can be confusing for those who are new to this field. I recommend you to read our articles What is a Microcontroller ? and What is a Microprocessor ? to understand more about microcontroller and microprocessor. Both microcontroller and microprocessor are programmable multipurpose silicon chip, clock driven, register based, accepts binary data as input and provides output after processing it as per the instructions stored in the memory....

April 25, 2020By Ligo GeorgeElectronicsMicrocontroller, Microprocessor1 CommentRead more...

Digital Alarm Clock using PIC Microcontroller and DS3234 RTC

Here is a digital alarm clock made using PIC 18F4520 Microcontroller and DS3234 RTC (Real Time Clock). This project is for educational purposes or can be used as a reference for integrating DS3234 RTC. DS3234 is a very accurate RTC IC with integrated on chip temperature compensated crystal oscillator. It can be integrated with a microcontroller using SPI bus. This project is developed using MPLAB XC8 compiler.

Components Required

PIC 18F4520 MicrocontrollerDS3234 RTC20MHz Crystal 4x3 Keypad16x2 LCD10KΩ preset5V buzzerLEDBC547...

April 11, 2020By Ligo GeorgeEmbedded, PIC Microcontroller, ProjectsDS3234, Embedded, Microcontroller, MPLAB, MPLAB XC8, PIC, PIC Microcontroller, Proteus, RTC, SPI, XC814 CommentsRead more...

What is a Microcontroller ?

A microcontroller is an integrated circuit (IC) which is small, low cost and self contained computer designed to handle a specific task in embedded systems. In simple words, a microcontroller (MCU or Microcontroller Unit) is a small computer integrated in to a single chip. We can also explain it as programmable silicon chip which is clock driven, register based, accepts input and provides output after processing it as per the instructions stored in the memory. A computer is a general...

March 27, 2020By Ligo GeorgeElectronics8051, ARM, AVR, Microcontroller, PIC0 CommentsRead more...

Seeeduino XIAO – Smallest Arduino Board

Today we will learn about Seeeduino XIAO, the most smallest Arduino compatible board as of today.

Introduction

Seeeduino XIAO is manufactured by SeeedStudio and is the smallest member of Seeeduino family. XIAO is powered by Microchip's ATSAMD21G18A-MU, which is a powerful and low power ARM® Cortex®-M0+ microcontroller. By seeing the picture itself we can understand...

February 27, 2020By Ligo GeorgeElectronics, News, PromotionalArduino, Seeeduino0 CommentsRead more...

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Components Required

Introduction