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Because I have not tested all electronic circuits mentioned on this pages, I cannot attest to their accuracy; therefore, I do not provide a warranty of any kind and cannot be held responsible in any manner.
Microchip PIC
Software DTMF decoder
6. September 2009 - 11:52 — adminDTMF (the phone dialing tones) is often decoded with a special IC. Here is a pure SW implementation in the PIC18F877 chip.
Bus Pirate 2 - the USB version
27. June 2009 - 15:57 — adminThe Bus Pirate is a universal bus interface that talks to most chips from a PC serial terminal, eliminating a ton of early prototyping effort when working with new or unknown chips. Now with USB capabilities in the version 2.
USBPicProg
25. June 2009 - 20:08 — adminUSBPicProg is a simple, open source USB in circuit programmer for Microchip PIC processors.
PIC32 board
16. June 2009 - 21:50 — adminA PIC32 board, providing PIC32 pins in a DIP format, simplifying the development.
PIC frequency counter
2. June 2009 - 21:02 — adminA small frequency counter with a cheap PIC microcontroller and a few seven-segment LED digits with frequency range up to 50MHz.
DIY "wooden" laptop
17. March 2009 - 22:01 — adminA little bit weird, a little bit cool stuff - you decide! Here is a do-it-yourself laptop based on PICAXE 28.
microPONG
12. March 2009 - 20:12 — adminAnother tiny PIC-based PONG game... I hope you're not tired with all the Pongs yet! :)
MIDI expander with old ISA-BUS soundcard
15. February 2009 - 16:30 — adminAn interesting article about utilizing an old ISA soundcard as a MIDI expander.
