This tutorial shows how to connect and interface 8-bit PIC microcontroller family with LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screens based on HD44780U or compatible controller. Even it is very old, the HD44780U controller or similar is widely used in character type […]
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This MPLAB project shows how to build a simple real time clock using PIC12F1822 microcontroller and DS3231 RTC chip (or DS1307 RTC) where time and date are displayed on 16×2 LCD. The DS3231 as well as the 16×2 LCD are
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This post shows how to use PIC16F887 microcontroller USART module in order to receive and send data from and to PC serial monitor software (hyper terminal, Arduino IDE serial monitor tool, mikroElektronika USART Terminal …) or any device that uses
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This post shows how to decode IR (Infra-Red) remote control that uses the Philips RC5 protocol using Microchip PIC16F887 8-bit microcontroller. Decoding results are printed on 16×2 LCD screen. The compiler used in this project is Microchip MPLAB XC8 (MPLAB
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This topic shows how to decode IR (Infra-Red) remote controls which use NEC protocol (NEC and extended NEC) using PIC16F887 microcontroller. Results are displayed on 16×2 LCD screen. The compiler used in this project is Microchip MPLAB XC8 (MPLAB X
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The HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor module can measure distances form 2 cm to 400 cm (4 m) with an accuracy of 3 mm. The HC-SR04 module includes ultrasonic transmitter, ultrasonic receiver and control circuit. This post shows how to make a
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This project shows how to control a DC motor speed and direction of rotation using PIC16F887 microcontroller and L293D motor driver chip. The L293D quadruple half-H drivers chip allows us to drive 2 motors in both directions. With one PWM
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The DS18B20 temperature sensor is a 3-pin electronic component (like a simple transistor) from Analog Devices (formerly Maxim Integrated) which uses 1-wire protocol to communicate with master device (microprocessor, microcontroller ….). The DS18B20 sensor provides 9-bit to 12-bit Celsius temperature
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This post shows how to build a real time clock with 2 alarm functions and temperature monitor using PIC16F887 microcontroller and DS3231 RTC IC. Time, date, alarms and temperature are displayed on 20×4 LCD screen. Time, date and alarms are
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The LM35 temperature sensor is a three pin device (VCC, OUT and GND) with an output voltage linearly related to Centigrade temperature. Since the LM35 output varies with dependent to the temperature we need an ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) module to
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