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Embedded Lab projects built by Kevin Murphy

Posted on January 8, 2012 by R-B Leave a comment

Kevin Murphy from New Boston, Michigan is a regular reader of Embedded Lab. He adapted our digital timer project to fulfill his need of a programmable timer switch for his darkroom. Here are some pictures that he has sent us showing how his assembled PCB of this project look like. He also received a PCB for the 18-pin PIC16F board from us last week. The following pictures shows his assembled breadboard module for PIC16F628. Thank you, Kevin for sharing these pictures with us.

Breadboard module for 18-pin PIC16F microcontrollers (PCB version)

Posted on December 25, 2011 by R-B 5 comments

Because of their compact size, ease of use and many built-in peripherals, the 18-pin PIC16F series processors (PIC16F628A, PIC16F88, and now PIC16F1827/47) have always been my favorite microcontrollers. Many of my projects and tutorials written in this blog also use PIC16F628A and PIC16F1827 microcontrollers. As I will be using them more in the future too, I thought of making some PCB versions of my breadboard module for PIC16F628A with some modifications. I used Iteadstudio’s PCB prototyping service for this, and I would say the PCBs turned out really well for the price I paid. I used their 2 layer 5cm x 5cm

Build a digital spirit level using a SCA610 accelerometer

Posted on December 9, 2011 by R-B 4 comments

A bubble or spirit level meter is a handy tool to find whether a surface is horizontal or vertical. It is often carried by civil engineers, mechanical engineers, surveyors, carpenters, and many other professionals whose work involve precise alignments of horizontal and vertical planes. Original spirit levels had two banana-shaped curved glass vials at each viewing point and were much more complicated to use. Mechanical spirit level meters are still available both in 1D and 2D formats. However at present time their electronic counterparts have also emerged and are even available in modern Android equipped cell phones. It’s from there I got

00 to 99 minute timer using PIC16F628A microcontroller

Posted on November 29, 2011 by R-B 31 comments

Last week I was browsing my old backup hard drive and I found a source code for a very simple PIC based digital timer that I made a couple of years ago. The actual hardware of the project isn’t with me anymore. I might have lost it when I moved from my old apartment into my new home. However, I thought this might be a good practice project for beginners and so I am sharing it here. I am not going to build it from scratch again; I will rather demonstrate it using my DIY PIC16F628A breadboard module and I/O board.

Revised version of LM35 based digital temperature meter

Posted on November 6, 2011 by R-B 39 comments

This is a revised version of my LM35 based digital thermometer project that I posted last year. Although it is one of the simplest projects, it is very popular among newbies who are just starting to learn microcontrollers. There was a little flaw in the original project as pointed by some readers. I was using a 1.2 V reference for A/D conversion with PIC16F688 microcontroller. However, the PIC16F688 datasheet says Vref should be equal to or higher than 2.2 V to ensure 1 LSB accuracy of A/D conversion. Here, I am rewriting the same project but this time I am using

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