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MSP-EXP430F5529 USB Experimenter’s Board for HALF price!

Posted on September 1, 2011 by R-B Leave a comment

TIDeals is offering 50% discount on MSP-EXP430F5529 USB Experimenter’s Board (Normally, it’s $149, and $74.50 after discount), and that includes free international shipping too. From MSP-EXP430F5529 Experimenter Board User’s Guide, “The MSP-EXP430F5529 Experimenter Board is a development platform based on the MSP430F5529 with integrated USB. The Experimenter Board showcases the abilities of the latest family of MSP430s and is perfect for learning and developing USB-based applications using the MSP430. The features include a 102×64 dot-matrix LCD, microSD memory card interface, 3-axis accelerometer, five capacitive-touch pads, RF EVM expansion headers, nine LEDs, an analog thumb-wheel, easy access to spare F5529 pins,

Mini development board for 32-bit PICMicro

Posted on June 17, 2011 by R-B Leave a comment

MikroElektronika recently released a mini development board (MINI-32) containing PIC32MX534F064H microcontroller. It operates on 3.3V power supply. The on-board voltage regulator allows the board to be powered directly from USB cable. The board is equiped with SMD crystal oscillator, and 32.768KHz crystal which can be used for internal RTCC module. It has reset button and three signal LEDs. Board comes preprogrammed with fast USB HID bootloader, so no external programmers are needed for development. It could be a very good development board for experimenters who love to do experiments on breadboard. Read More

Microchip and Stratford Digital releases 16-bit microcontroller development platform for Educators

Posted on June 15, 2011 by R-B Leave a comment

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, and Stratford Digital, today announced a full, turnkey, 16-bit microcontroller development platform that enables educators to quickly and easily integrate Microchip into their curriculum. The PIC24-based platform includes two boards—the MX PIC24 Module (part # TSTR001) and MX Educational Target Board (part # TSTR002)—and a free software download of an Educator’s Lab Manual, including 10 unique labs on topics ranging from “Intro to Microcontrollers,” to timers, Pulse-Width Modulation and Analog-to-Digital Converters, to power management. Microchip will be demonstrating the platform at its booth, # 647, at the American

Can’t access to Microchip’s website this morning

Posted on May 25, 2011 by R-B 7 comments

When I tried to access microchip.com this morning, the page didn’t show up. This is what I have been seeing. I can’t access to any information and datasheets. Is anybody else having the same issue? Sorry, it was my bad, I have this problem with one of my machines, but it’s working good on other machines. I should have checked this before.

How to make a contact-less digital tachometer using IR-light reflection technique

Posted on April 21, 2011 by R-B 41 comments

Tachometer is a device that measures the rotational speed of any shaft or disc. The unit of the measurement is usually revolutions per minute or RPM. The traditional method of measuring RPM of a rotating shaft was based on velocity feedback concept where a dc generator is hooked to the rotating shaft so that the voltage induced across the generator’s terminals is proportional to the speed of the shaft. Today, we are going to make a digital tachometer based on a PIC microcontroller that requires no physical contact with the rotating shaft to measure its rotational speed. The physical contact

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