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.
As electronics engineers, we always depend upon meters/instruments to measure and analyse the working of a circuit. Starting with a simple multimeter to a complex power quality analysers or DSOs everything has their own unique applications. Most of these meters are readily available and can be purchased based on the parameters to be measured and their accuracy. But sometimes…
One common feature that is used in almost every embedded application is the ADC module (Analog to Digital Converter). These Analog to digital Converters can read voltage from analog sensors like Temperature sensor, Tilt sensor, Current sensor, Flex sensor and much more. So in this tutorial we will learn how to use ADC in STM32F103C8 to read Analog voltages…
Line follower robot is one of the popular robotics projects among students and beginners because of its simplicity. It follows a line, either black or white, depending on how you program your microcontroller. Here we make a line follower robot using MSP430 launchpad from Texas Instruments, which follows the black line. If you are new to MSP430 launchpad, …
After being inspired by RYNO motors and other self-balancing scooters from Segway, I always wanted to build something of my own Arduino Segway Robot. Thinking for a while, I decided to build a Self Balancing Robot using Arduino. This way I would be able to grasp the underlying concept behind all these scooters and also learn how the PID algorithm works.
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MSP430 is a powerful platform provided by Texas Instruments for embedded projects, its versatile nature has made it to find ways into many applications and the phase is still going. If you have been following our MSP430 tutorials then you would have noticed we have already covered wide a range of tutorials on this microcontroller starting from the very basics.…
Raspberry Pi is known for its computational power and its vast application in the field of IoT, Home Automation etc. However for any electronic system to interact with the real world and get information about it, the system has to use sensors. There are many types of sensors used for this process and the required sensor is selected based on the parameter to be measured and…
Although Raspberry Pi and Arduino are two different hardware in terms of their applications and structure, but they both are considered as two competing open source hardware platforms. They both have very strong community and support. Today we will slightly change things, and show you how we can take advantage of both of them. If you have both Arduino and…
The STM32 Development Board housing the STM32F103C8 Microcontroller is getting increasingly popular thanks to its ARM Cortex M3 architecture, it has high operational speed and more peripheral options. Also since, this board can be easily programmed using the Arduino IDE it has become a preferable choice for many hobbyists and engineers…
The Oscilloscope is one of the most important tools you will find on the workbench of any electronics engineer or maker. It is primarily used for viewing waveform and determining voltage levels, frequency, noise and other parameters of signals applied at its input that might change over time. It is also used by embedded software developers for code debugging and technicians…
We are moving towards the World of Internet of Things (IoT), a technology which is going to play a very important role in the consumer and industrial electronics. Sending an Email from any Microcontroller or Embedded system is one of the very basic thing which is required in IoT. Here we create a demo IoT project where we use ESP8266 and MSP430 Launchpad…
Have you ever thought about jamming the Wi-Fi connection network? Now days Wi-Fi password hacking is very common, so by jamming the Wi-Fi network you can block or jam any Wi-Fi connection, and no one is able to connect to that Wi-Fi network even after knowing the password. This can be done with a tiny Microcontroller ESP12E, which is also referred as Wi-Fi module or NodeMCU…
For any microcontroller project, interfacing a display unit with it would make the project a lot easier and appealing for the user to interact with. The most commonly used display unit for microcontrollers is the 16×2 Alpha numeric displays. These types of displays are not only useful to display vital information to the user but can also act as a debugging tool during the…
