getting started

The STM8 is a series of 8-bit Microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics that has become a common choice of Microcontroller for cost-sensitive product development. I have previously work with AVR, PIC, and a few other ARM Cortex Microcontrollers, but surely in some applications, they become overkill and increase the BOM cost considerably…

Many of us should be familiar with the popular microcontrollers and development boards like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP8266, NoduMCU, 8051, etc. In fact, for most people, Arduino would have been their first development board, but as we dig deep and begin professional designs, we will soon realize the limitations of Arduino (like cost, versatility, stability, speed, etc.) and…

Arduino has been the go-to development platform for fast prototyping and idea validation. Many of us would have started with the Arduino UNO development board, but today as we progress towards the Internet of things, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, and other futuristic technologies, the humble Arduino UNO could no longer cope up with its 8-…

Servo motor works on the principal of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) and its angle of rotation is controlled by the duration of the pulse applied to its control pin. Here in this tutorial we will control a servo motor with ATtiny13 microcontroller using PWM technique. So before going any further we will first learn about PWM, Servo Motor and how to program ATtiny13 with…

We are all familiar with AVR and PIC based microcontrollers as they are widely used but ARM based microcontrollers are getting popular nowadays because of their cost and speed. Texas Instruments' Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad (EK-TM4C123GXL) is one of them, it is a low cost development board based on ARM Coretx-M4F Evaluation Board. This beautiful shiny Red board is…

There are several ways to program AVR microcontrollers. We are programming it with USBASP v2.0 serial programmer. For demonstration we will use ATmega16 Microcontroller and Atmel Studio. We will test the programmer with a blink sketch.

Below are the steps to burn the code into Atmega ICs using USBASP JTAG and Atmel Studio:

STM32 Microcontrollers which uses ARM Cortex M architecture is now becoming popular and are used in many applications because of its feature, cost and performance. We have programmed STM32F103C8 using the Arduino IDE in our previous tutorials. Programming STM32 with Arduino IDE is simple, as there are lots of libraries available for various sensors to perform any task, we…

Simulink has becomes most used engineering software package in last few years among academies and industries. Simulink comes integrated with MATLAB software which is used for modelling, simulating and analyzing the dynamic systems. Simulink provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) as block diagrams to build your model like you are building on using…

Every electronics engineer loves to break electronics things and explore what is present inside it. Recently I opened an LED TV and found ARM Chip inside it. ARM based microcontrollers are heavily used in various types of embedded products and systems. They comprise many advanced features that make them powerful and superior to other microcontrollers such as…

Note: This tutorial was written after Arduino has officially launched its support for ESP32 boards. So if you have followed the old method of using GIT to install the boards then you would have to follow these steps again (highly recommended) if you need support for new libraries. If you are working with ESP32 for first time you do not have to worry about this.

Arduino would have been the first board for many hobbyists (including me) and engineers out there when they started with electronics. However, as we start building more and dig deep we would soon realise that Arduino is not industry ready and its 8-bit CPU with a ridiculously slow clock, it does not give you enough juice for your projects. Hopefully though, we have the new…

The MSP-EXP430G2 is a Development Tool a.k.a LaunchPad provided by the Texas Instruments to learn and practice on how to use their Microcontrollers. This board falls under the MSP430 Value Line category where we can program all the MSP430 series Microcontrollers. Learning how to use TI Microcontrollers would definitely be a mighty tool up in our…