microcontrollers

MEET THE STM32 “BLACK PILL” DEVELOPMENT BOARD

MEET THE STM32 “BLACK PILL” DEVELOPMENT BOARD

After playing second (maybe third?) fiddle for a while to a range of maker-friendly boards from Arduino and others, STMicro finally got it right with the STM32F103C8T6 Arm Cortex-M3 microcontroller-based “BluePill” development board which can be programmed using the Arduino IDE. As all good hardware requires, a new version of the board which is being called the “Blue Pill 2” or “Black

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AVR8JS – OPEN SOURCE ARDUINO SIMULATOR BASED ON JAVASCRIPT

AVR8JS – OPEN SOURCE ARDUINO SIMULATOR BASED ON JAVASCRIPT

One of the things I love about JavaScritpt is the fact it keeps finding applications in different domains. One such use is in Arduino, with Espruino (open-source JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers), and an interesting new one is the AVR8js. AVR8js is an open-source Arduino simulator based on JavaScript that can run in the cloud or virtually anywhere javascript runs. Arduino has

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Using the 433MHz RF Transmitter and Receiver with Arduino

Using the 433MHz RF Transmitter and Receiver with Arduino

Introduction While building microcontroller based projects, there are occasions where communication will be required between two devices, either in a duplex/transceiver based operation (where both devices can transmit and receive at the same time) or in a simplex-based operation where communication is one way (Receiving device cannot transmit and the transmitting device cannot receive). Several

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A data acquisition system on a chip 1

A data-acquisition system on a chip

Multifunction data-acquisition systems have been around for a long time as stand-alone instruments, plug-in cards, cabled computer peripherals, and embedded in systems. Such systems are often designed with separate ADCs, DACs, and digital I/O devices. Many microcontrollers include ADCs and DACs, but that locks you into using that device. The AD5592R from Analog Devices combines

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Open V The Open Source RISC V 32bit Microcontroller

Open-V, The Open Source RISC-V 32bit Microcontroller

Open source has finally arrived to microcontrollers. Based on RISC-V instruction set, a group of doctoral students at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia have been working on an open source 32-bit chip called “Open-V“. Onchip, the startup of the research team, is focusing on integrated systems and is aiming to build the first system-on-chip designed in Colombia. The

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VERSATILE AND OPEN SOURCE LIPO BBATTERY BREADBOARD POWER SUPPLY 2

VERSATILE AND OPEN SOURCE LIPO BBATTERY BREADBOARD POWER SUPPLY

Orlando Hoilett from Calvary Engineering LLC designed a  versatile Li-Po battery breadboard power supply and wrote an Instructables on it. This power supply outputs 3.3V to the breadboard and takes input from a single-cell LiPo battery. The breadboard power supply also has the ability to charge the battery without needing to separate it from the circuit board. More importantly, this

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