Below section covers a list of simple microcontroller projects to learn and work with the concepts of various microcontrollers and architectures. These microcontroller based projects are covered with detailed explanation of working of hardware, circuit diagrams, software and codes.
Microcontrollers are widely used in various industries, electronic products, automobiles etc.. to perform computing or logical operations. With this huge importance the demand of microcontrollers in industries is prominent and hence as electronics engineers it is important for us to learn how to use them. There are a large number of semiconductor companies manufacturing a variety of microcontrollers, the most popularly ones are 8051 microcontrollers, AVR microcontrollers, PIC microcontroller, TI Microcontrollers, Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc.
In this project we are going to make a low range ammeter using ATMEGA8 microcontroller. In ATMEGA8, we are going use 10bit ADC (Analog to Digital Conversion) feature to do this. Although we have few other ways to get the current parameter from a circuit, we are going to use resistive drop method, because it’s the easiest and simplest way to get current parameter.
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In this tutorial we are going to establish a serial communication between two ATMEGA8 microcontrollers. The communication established here is UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) type. By this serial communication data can be shared between two microcontrollers, which is required in various embedded systems.
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Line follower Robot is a machine which follows a line, it may be a black line or a white line. Basically two types of line follower robots are: one is black line follower which follows black line and second one is white line follower which follows white line. Line follower actually senses the line and run over it. In our previous projects, we have made a black line…
In this project we are going to make a vibration alert system with ATMEGA8 microcontroller. This can also be used as a theft alert system, for that we are going to interface tilt sensor with ATMEGA8. A tilt sensor is shown in below figure.
We can see there is a cylinder in the picture, in that cylinder there will…
Often we see visitor counters at stadium, mall, offices, class rooms etc. How they count the people and turn ON or OFF the light when nobody is inside? Today we are here with automatic room light controller project with bidirectional visitor counter by using Arduino Uno. It is very interesting project for hobbyists and students for fun as well as learning…
We all are quite familiar with voting machines, even we have covered few other electronic voting machine projects previously using RFID with 8051, AVR microcontroller, and Raspberry Pi. In this project, we have used the arduino uno board to build a simple electronic voting machine. If you are looking for a similar Fingerprint based biometric voting machine…
Heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure monitoring are very important parameters of human body. Doctors use various kind of medical apparatus like thermometer for checking fever or body temperature, BP monitor for blood pressure measurement and heart rate monitor for heart rate measurement. In this project, we have built an Arduino based heartbeat monitor which…
In this tutorial we are going to interface a joystick module with atmega8 microcontroller. A JOY STICK is an input module used for communication. It basically makes easy the user machine communication. A joystick is shown in below figure.
The joystick module has two axis - one is horizontal and other is…
In this project we are going to interface a ROTARY ENCODER with ARDUINO. ARDUINO UNO is an ATMEGA controller based development board designed for electronic engineers and hobbyists. In ARDUINO we have 20 I/O pins, so we can program 20 pins of UNO to be used as either input or output.
A ROTARY ENCODER is used to…
In this tutorial we are going to interface FLEX sensor with ATMEGA8 microcontroller. In ATMEGA8, we are going use 10bit ADC (Analog to Digital Conversion) feature to do this job. Now the ADC in ATMEGA cannot take a input more than +5V. We have also covered how to interface flex sensor with Arduino, you can also check out that tutorial if intrested.
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In this tutorial we are going to interface a 4x4 (16 key) keypad with ARDUINO UNO. We all know keypad is one of the most important input devices used in electronics engineering. Keypad is the easiest and the cheapest way to give commands or instructions to an electronic system. Whenever a key is pressed in keypad module the Arduino Uno detects it and shoes the…
In this tutorial you will learn to make direct connection between your Arduino and Matlab, so that you can program your Arduino directly through Matlab. It is very useful when you are working on complex robotics like Robotic Hand, Humanoid etc. as you can process your complex program on your PC in Matlab and then directly program the results in Arduino.
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