µ[micro]electronics info - My projects

Breadboard dual power supply

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:52:17 +0000

Dual power supply (5V + 3.3V) for your breadboard, based on Linear Technology's LT1529 low dropout regulators.

Serial SRAM

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:42:07 +0000

Microchip Technology Inc.announced a family of 8- and 32-Kbyte stand-alone serial SRAM devices, which increase a system’s available RAM memory by adding small, inexpensive external devices.

My first experiments with accelerometers

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:59:06 +0000

...or Would you like to built your own Wiimote? :)

Thermometer with DS1820 + ATtiny15

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:47:42 +0000

This is my very first construction with the cheap Atmel's ATtiny15 and the DS1820 thermometer. The main goal was the BIG display from the 7-segment LED modules. (And cheap + simple construction, of course...)

Nokia Color LCD - using 4096 colors in 8bit mode

admin — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:25:25 +0000

How to manage Nokia 6100 LCD to use 4096 colors without any limitations? It's easy... You can use my library for free.

As I promise in my previous article , here is my improved LCD C library for using with the Nokia 6100 Series LCD.

Main feature in this library is method to use full 4096 colors in the 8bits (256col) mode. It is enabled by simple hack, based on the color lookup table and the LRU cache.

Cheap LCD display with 4096 colors for embedded projects

admin — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:19:32 +0000

How to use the color LCD from the Nokia 6100 mobile phone with your own microcontroller project? Inside: Description of full-color (4096 colors) LCD mode, connecting the display to the µC and free graphics library to download.

Doorbell with PIC

admin — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:30:51 +0000

This article describes the construction of the "audio sample playing doorbell".