Thursday, January 17th, 2013
The December 2012 issue of the Australian electronics magazine Silicon Chip features the USB Power Monitor. It uses a PIC18F45K80 to monitor the power consumption of a USB device. The board acts as a bridge between the host and the device with a USB A male on one side, and...Tags: PIC18F, power monitor, USB
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Thursday, December 13th, 2012
Need a switch that turns on and off at set times? Here is a project by Victor that does exactly that. It's PIC18F4550 based and uses a DS1307 real time clock chip to keep time. A small 12 volt relay acts as the switch. This project, like others before, has...Tags: PIC18F, Timer switch
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Thursday, June 7th, 2012
Exapod built a 8x16 ping-pong ball LED matrix display. The ping-pong balls are used as diffusers for green LEDs. Two MAX7219 8bit serial LED drivers control the lights. A PIC18F2553 drives the MAX chips with text received over a Bluetooth module. I finally finished my 8x16 ping pong ball matrix...Tags: LED Matrix, PIC18F, pin-pong
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
JTR released a major updated to the open source USB stack that's been brewing in the forum. It's been designed to work with a generic echo demo, the Bus Pirate v4, the USB IR toy, the LCD Backpack, the Locgic Shrimp, and the Logic Sniffer. So far only the CDC...Tags: Open source USB, PIC12F, PIC18F
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