Seven Segment Display Thermometer with PIC Microcontroller
The seven segment display is one of the most popular numeric displays used in many microcontroller applications because it’s cheap, robust and reliable. The seven segments actually consists of 8 LED...
View ArticleLab 4: Interfacing a character LCD using PIC16F688
Description HD44780 based LCD displays are very popular among hobbyists because they are cheap and they can display characters. Besides they are very easy to interface with microcontrollers and most of...
View Article4 Bit LCD interfacing and programming with PIC Microcontroller
LCD displays operate in two modes 4 bit and 8 bit mode. We all might have been familiar with 8 bit mode which is used widely in several systems. But 4 bit mode is something which many of us is not...
View ArticleTransmitting and receiving data using UART protocol PIC Microcontroller
UART or serial communication is one of the important protocol used by the Microcontrollers to transmit and receive data from the external devices. Almost every controller is equipped with this protocol...
View ArticleInterfacing LCD and Keypad with PIC16F877A Microcontroller
Interfacing LCD and Keypad are one of the important interfacing concepts of PIC microcontroller since both the input and output element can form a complete embedded system design. This tutorial is...
View ArticleHow to create custom characters on 16×2 LCD using PIC18F4550
The 16×2 character LCD can also be used to display custom characters other than numerals, alphabets & special characters. Refer LCD interfacing with PIC. Some special shapes like hearts, arrows,...
View ArticleLecture 43 : Interfacing PIC16F877 Microcontroller with an LCD
Aim To interface LCD (Displaytech 162A) with PIC16F877microcontroller and to display “IITK” in the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). Components/Softwares MPLAB IDE (PIC microcontrollers simulator) PIC...
View ArticleMaking “The LCD Expansion Board” for PIC18F4520 using pic microcontoller
In this tutorial I you show you how to make a very useful expansion board for our PIC development board. It will be a Do It Your self (DIY) LCD Expansion board. The expansion board can be plugged into...
View ArticleEasy Debugging Terminal using PIC16F84
Introduction This LCD terminal provide two modes of operation by selecting jumper J1. When J1 is open the terminal operate as a normal ascii display terminal, when J1 is closed the terminal displays...
View Articled.i.y. Handheld Multichannel Analyzer (MCA) based on 16F877 PIC...
Some time ago I was developing a medical instrument which required histogramming, which got me in the mood to retake my own PIC MCA project(http://home.comcast.net/~prutchi/index_files/scint.htm ). I...
View ArticlePIC16F877A (with LCD) not working
I have designed a PIC18F877A micro controller project to read temperature from an LM35 using ADC, display it on an LCD and transmit it to a serial port. When the program starts, sometimes it shows a...
View ArticleHow to display text on 16×2 LCD using PIC18F4550 Microcontroller
Several automated and semi-automated devices require a message to be displayed in order to indicate their working status. In continuation to LCD interfacing with PIC18F4550, this article explains how...
View ArticlePIC Microcontroller project – 24 hour clock and thermometer displayed via...
I got to thinking that an interest in hi-fi can be a bit geek ( in a good way ) so I thought one of my latest geek projects might be of interest to some of you. You could build the project ‘as is’...
View ArticleMicrocontroller based Data Logger
Description: This project is a fine combination of analog and digital electronics. This project is designed so as to fulfill the requirements of the industry applications, home applications. The...
View ArticlePROJECT FINAL WRITE-UP
Our efforts in this project were to create a version of a Microchip mid-range PIC microcontroller in verilog to run on an Altera DE2 board. It was primarily planned to create a machine that would...
View ArticleHow to Use Interrupts in PIC16F877A Microcontroller
How to Use Interrupts in PIC16F877A Microcontroller In this tutorial we will learn how to use an External Interrupt in PIC Microcontroller and why/where we will need them. This is a part of the...
View ArticleHow to Save Data using EEPROM in PIC16F877A Microcontroller
Saving Data using EEPROM in PIC16F877A In this tutorial we will learn how easy it is to save data using the EEPROM present in the PIC16F877A Microcontroller. In most real time projects we might have...
View ArticleDigital Speedometer and Odometer Circuit using PIC Microcontroller
Digital Speedometer and Odometer Circuit using PIC Microcontroller Measuring the speed/rpm of a Vehicle or a motor has always been a fascinating project for us to try. So, in this project we are going...
View ArticleDisplay custom characters on 16×2 lcd using Microchip Pic16f877 Microcontroller
Here is a simple project on how to build/generate/make custom characters in 16×2 lcd and then print/display them on lcd using microchip pic16f877 microcontroller. Character lcd contains a set of ascii...
View ArticleInterfacing PIC16F84 with DS3231 RTC
This post shows how to make a real time clock and calendar using PIC16F84 and DS3231 RTC. The DS3231 uses I2C protocol to interface with the master device which is in this example the PIC16F84A MCU. In...
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