Electronic articles
Here you will find articles related to electronics, which includes programming of embedded controllers. These articles will generally be of a technical nature, and includes How-To documentation.2024
2023
- Reflow soldering hot-plate (30 Dec 2023)
- Trying out Arduino (01 Dec 2023)
- Pulse counter (15 Aug 2023)
- LED matrix control firmware (14 Aug 2023)
- Firmware-based night light (12 Aug 2023)
- Hard-wired night light (25 Jun 2023)
- Capacitive dropper circuit (21 May 2023)
- Lithium-ion power pack (05 Apr 2023)
- Molex mini-connectors (01 Mar 2023)
- High-voltage power interface (06 Feb 2023)
2022
2021
- Manual EEPROM reader/writer (10 Oct 2021)
- Joule thief (09 Oct 2021)
- AT28C64B EEPROM programmer (26 Sep 2021)
- 74HC595 serial-to-parallel chip (22 Sep 2021)
- Manual LCD Control (09 Jul 2021)
- Analogue circuit de-bouncing (06 Jun 2021)
- AC power control, 3rd gen. (09 May 2021)
- Atmel AT28C64B EEPROM (07 May 2021)
- PCF8574 I/O Expander (13 Mar 2021)
- LCD timer enclosure (07 Mar 2021)
- MOSFET transistors (06 Feb 2021)
- Cortex-M4 mini-evaluation board (05 Feb 2021)
- CD4510B BCD counter (02 Feb 2021)
- Triac triggering pulses (31 Jan 2021)
- Prototyping boards (24 Jan 2021)
- I2C slave device (17 Jan 2021)
- 50% duty-cycle 555 oscillator (16 Jan 2021)
- Hard-wired triac control, 2nd gen. (03 Jan 2021)
2020
- Triac circuit evaluation (26 Dec 2020)
- Hard-wired triac power control (05 Dec 2020)
- Hot-plate temperature experiments (07 Nov 2020)
- USB-I2C adapter, Revision 2 (06 Nov 2020)
- NXP USB try-out, take 3 (10 Oct 2020)
- MCP3428 temperature circuit (09 Oct 2020)
- 4-bit I/O Expander (19 Sep 2020)
- Hard-wired duty-cycle counter (18 Sep 2020)
- 5-volt mains adapter (11 Sep 2020)
- Solid-state AC control (05 Sep 2020)
- 5-volt Buck converter (30 Aug 2020)
- Power relay switch, 2nd gen. (12 Aug 2020)
- Power relay switch (08 Aug 2020)
- LCD timer, 2nd gen. (03 Aug 2020)
- NXP USB try-out, take 2 (02 Aug 2020)
- Thermocouple control (31 Jul 2020)
- MicroMatch ARM adapter respin (12 Apr 2020)
- Reflow soldering (14 Mar 2020)
- Kinetis KE04 breakout (02 Mar 2020)
- CAT24C512 EEPROM chip (01 Mar 2020)
- NXP LPC11Uxx USB try-out (29 Feb 2020)
- RS232 line driver (08 Jan 2020)
- Lead-free solder (07 Jan 2020)
2019
- MicroMatch ARM connectors (11 Dec 2019)
- ARM I2C Master (01 Dec 2019)
- LCD dot-matrix display, 2nd gen. (13 Oct 2019)
- KiCad 4 vs. KiCad 5 (11 Oct 2019)
- QFN chips (07 Sep 2019)
- LCD Timer, Part 3 (13 Apr 2019)
- Repairing Logitech M570 Trackball (12 Apr 2019)
- ARM programming connections (27 Mar 2019)
- Self-made RF modules (17 Mar 2019)
- Wireless counting buttons (14 Mar 2019)
- LCD Timer, Part 2 (24 Feb 2019)
- LCD Timer, Part 1 (10 Feb 2019)
2018
- Pure vs. inline assembly (12 Dec 2018)
- 17-segment LED mainboard (25 Nov 2018)
- LED matrix tile (24 Nov 2018)
- 16-bit serial-to-parallel (17 Nov 2018)
- USB-I2C adapter (28 Oct 2018)
- Bootstrap ARM Cortex-M4 PCB (19 Sep 2018)
- LCD dot-matrix display (17 Sep 2018)
- I2C register-enabled slave (15 Sep 2018)
- Bootstrapping ARM Cortex-M0 (11 Aug 2018)
- 17-segment LED module (10 Aug 2018)
- 555-driven sounder (27 Jul 2018)
- LED matrix display, 2nd gen. (15 Jul 2018)
- RS232 LCD display rework (09 Jul 2018)
- Counter-comparitor signalling (01 Jul 2018)
- Variable frequency buzzer (24 Jun 2018)
- Cypress 20-bit I/O Expander (22 Jun 2018)
- Serial-I2C adapter (06 May 2018)
- SN74HC161N binary counter (28 Apr 2018)
- PIC16F630 de-bouncer (27 Apr 2018)
- LCD time display PCB (26 Apr 2018)
- 17-segment LED display (21 Apr 2018)
- PIC16F88 LED alarm clock (01 Apr 2018)
- 74HC238 expander (30 Mar 2018)
- SOT-323 transistors (24 Mar 2018)
- PIC16F88 Timer PCB (19 Mar 2018)
- LCD display & driver (15 Mar 2018)
- PCA9655E breakout (04 Feb 2018)
- PCA9671 breakout (03 Feb 2018)
- PIC16F88 8-segment LED timer (28 Jan 2018)
- Darlington array measurments (07 Jan 2018)
- TCA9535 expander breakout (06 Jan 2018)
- Bluetooth LCD mark-2 (05 Jan 2018)
2017
- MCP23017 8-segment LED timer (28 Dec 2017)
- Bluetooth-driven LCD display (24 Dec 2017)
- 7-segment LED display (22 Dec 2017)
- RS232-driven LCD display (01 Dec 2017)
- NXP NT3H2211 NFC tag (14 Nov 2017)
- PIC16F630 timer (11 Nov 2017)
- Darlington switch array (07 Nov 2017)
- SMD resistor array (04 Nov 2017)
- RS232 wire-line (01 Nov 2017)
- Timer-based LED control (30 Oct 2017)
- LED matrix display (22 Oct 2017)
- PIC12F1822 I2C-RS232 bridge (15 Oct 2017)
- Transistors (24 Sep 2017)
- Chip programming seat (22 Sep 2017)
- I2C primer (24 Aug 2017)
- Driving DEM16217 LCD display (18 Aug 2017)
- LED display (part 2) (31 Jul 2017)
- LED display (part 1) (20 Jul 2017)
- Running PIC16F630 code with gpsim (15 Jul 2017)