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Microchip PIC
Game with LCD from Nokia 3310
21. May 2008 - 11:36 — adminSimple and cheap graphic game system with LCD from Nokia cellphone.
EchoMP3 - small MP3 player
17. May 2008 - 14:16 — adminCheap and excellent MP3 player based on VS1002 MP3 decoder, PIC18F45x microcontroller and LCD display from Nokia 3310 cell phone.
MP3 software decoder for dsPIC33
14. May 2008 - 13:55 — adminA great thing: software-based MP3 decoder for dsPICs, published under GPL.
WinUSB - USB library for PICs from Jan Axelson
14. May 2008 - 12:22 — adminWinUSB a generic driver for devices that don't fit a defined USB class. The driver was introduced with Windows Vista and is also usable on Windows XP systems. The driver is not usable on earlier Windows editions. The driver supports control, bulk, and interrupt transfers.
WinUSB is a .NET host application for accessing devices that use the WinUSB driver. Each includes an example INF file to match the device's Vendor ID and Product ID to a device interface GUID. There are two variants - VB.NET and C#
Two frequency counters with PIC
11. May 2008 - 16:56 — adminTwo simple frequency counters with PIC microcontrollers.
PIC Countdown timer
7. May 2008 - 20:35 — adminHere is a PIC16F84 countdown timer for PCB exposure unit
TCP/IP stack on Microchip PIC24
30. April 2008 - 20:42 — adminPIC24FJ64GA002 + ENC28J60 hobby project
Accelerometer again...
26. April 2008 - 15:32 — adminI've published the article about AVR-based accelerometer a few days ago. Here is another stuff with Microchip PIC.
Microchip Technology Offers Integration’s EZLink™ Development Kit via microchipDIRECT for Sub-GHz Wireless Networking
24. April 2008 - 13:10 — adminMicrochip Technology Inc. today announced the availability of Integration Associates’ EZLink™ Development Kit (Microchip part # TDKEZ915) for $240 on the www.microchipdirect.com e-commerce Web site.
This kit augments the wireless products offered by Microchip, by providing wireless customers an option for easy sub-GHz RF modem development. The EZLink radio module contains an onboard PIC18F2520 8-bit Flash microcontroller and Integration’s IA4421 EZRadio® transceiver.
