Interfacing Servo Motor with PIC Microcontroller – MPLAB XC8

Servo Motor Servo Motor is an ordinary geared dc motor equipped with closed loop servo mechanism which uses position feedback to control exact angular position of the rotor. These are commonly used in robotic arms, legs etc. Servo Motors do not rotate continuously, their rotation is limited to fixed angles. Usually these motors have rotation limit from 90º to 180° and some special have limits 360° or more. Servo Motors usually have three wires. RED and BLACK wires are used to...

August 24, 2014By Ligo GeorgeMPLAB XC8, PIC Microcontroller, TutorialsMicrocontroller, MPLAB, MPLAB XC8, PIC, Proteus, Servo Motor, Tutorials8 CommentsRead more...

Interfacing LCD with PIC Microcontroller – MPLAB XC8

In this tutorial we will see How to Interface a 16x2 character LCD module with PIC 16F877A Microcontroller using MPLAB X IDE and MPLAB XC8 C Compiler. 16x2 Character LCD is a very basic and low cost LCD module which is commonly used in electronic products and projects. 16x2 means it contains 2 rows that can display 16 characters. Its other variants such as 16x1 and 16x4 are also available in the market. In these displays, each character is displayed...

August 18, 2014By Ligo GeorgeMPLAB XC8, PIC Microcontroller, TutorialsEmbedded, Microcontroller, MPLAB, MPLAB X IDE, MPLAB XC8, PIC, Proteus, Tutorials, XC8136 CommentsRead more...

Interfacing HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor with PIC Microcontroller

HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor is a popular and low cost solution for non-contact distance measurement function. It is able to measure distances from 2cm to 400cm with an accuracy of about 3mm. This module includes ultrasonic transmitter, ultrasonic receiver and its control circuit. HC-SR04 module has 4 pins : VCC - 5V, +ive of the power supply TRIG - Trigger Pin ECHO - Echo Pin GND - -ive of the power supply TRIG and ECHO pins can be used to interface this module with a...

August 12, 2014By Ligo GeorgeEmbedded, MikroC, MPLAB XC8, PIC Microcontroller, PIC Microcontroller, ProjectsHC-SR04, Microcontroller, MikroC, MikroC Pro, MPLAB, MPLAB XC8, PIC, Tutorials, Ultrasonic, XC8226 CommentsRead more...

Using Push Button Switch with Arduino Uno

In this tutorial you will learn how to read the status of a digital pin of Arduino. I hope that you already go through our first tutorial, Getting Started with Arduino Uno - LED Blinking. In this example, a push button switch and an LED is connected to Arduino Uno. When we press the switch, LED will glow for 3 seconds. A pin is configured as Input Pin to connect switch...

July 25, 2014By Alisha TomyArduino, TutorialsArduino, Arduino Uno2 CommentsRead more...

Getting Started with Arduino – LED Blinking

Arduino Uno R3 Arduino Uno is the best development board for beginners in the field of embedded systems. We can program Arduino board with less technical knowledge and programming skills. This tutorial is intended to beginners in the field of Arduino. Hope you already have an Arduino board. Then you have to download Arduino Software and Driver. You can download it from Arduino Website.

Installing Arduino Driver

Now connect the Arduino to your computer using a USB cable....

July 17, 2014By Alisha TomyArduino, Electronics, TutorialsArduino, Arduino Uno0 CommentsRead more...

Using Push Button Switch – MPLAB XC8

Push Button Switch I hope that you already go through the first tutorial of MPLAB XC8, Getting Started with MPLAB XC8 - LED Blinking. In that tutorial we learn how to use an output pin by driving an LED. In this we will learn how to read an Input pin using a push button switch. We already seen that TRIS register is used to set direction of each IO...

July 15, 2014By Ligo GeorgeMPLAB XC8, PIC Microcontroller, TutorialsMicrocontroller, MPLAB, MPLAB XC8, PIC, Proteus, Tutorials, XC823 CommentsRead more...

Arduino Uno

Arduino Uno R3 The Arduino Uno is the most popular one among other Arduino development boards. It is based on the microcontroller ATmega328. The factor which make Arduino Uno differ from others is that it does not use FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead it uses a microcontroller Atmega16U2 (Atmega8U2 up to version R2) which is programmed as USB-to-serial converter. Its peripheral features includes 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can provide PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16MHz crystal oscillator, a...

July 5, 2014By Alisha TomyArduino, Electronics, TutorialsArduino, Arduino Uno0 CommentsRead more...

Getting Started with MPLAB XC8 Compiler – LED Blinking

In this tutorial we will learn How to Blink an LED with PIC Microcontroller using MPAB XC8 Compiler. Recently Microchip released a series of development tools including MPLAB X IDE and MPAB XC Compilers. MPLAB X IDE is a software that runs on a computer intended to develop applications for Microchip's Microcontrollers and Digital Signal Controllers. It can be used with Windows, Mac and Linux Operating Systems. It...

July 1, 2014By Ligo GeorgeMPLAB XC8, PIC Microcontroller, TutorialsEmbedded, Microchip, Microcontroller, MPLAB, PIC, Proteus, Tutorials, XC850 CommentsRead more...