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320×240 color LCD with touchscreen controlled by AVR

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320×240 is quite big screen that can fit many interesting projects. Especially if control is done via touchscreen. Well controlling such LCD require some control. Patrick have been developing Hitachi TX14D11VM1CAA control software for Atmega162 and recently he released first release.   Display is controlled by S1D13705 LCD controller while touch screen values are read with LTC1298(ADC). Atmega162 board also can read Compact Flash card information(including image drawing) and present it on LCD screen. You can download zipped project from AVRFreaks or from authors page when it will be available. Continue reading

Numeric Simon memory game on Olimex PIC-MT Dev Board

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If you have a Olimex PIC-MT Dev Board near by, you may want to try this popular Simon memory game modification that has been developed by geeksinside. Geeksinside did a review of the Olimex PIC-MT development board so you may easier to decide if it fits your needs. Or there is another option. They are currently running a tips contest this month and giving away a second Olimex PIC-MT. So don’t hesitate and try your luck. Continue reading

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AVR USBtinyISP programmer and SPI interface

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Seems like everyone is shifting their own ISP programmers from COM and LPT ports to USB. And there is a reason for this – computers arre getting mobile, LPT and COM ports becoming obsolete. But almost everywhere you can find USB port, so it is logical to have USB programmer rather then old style. ladyada have developed very tiny USB ISP programmer which also can serve as USB-SPI interface. Thisis really low cost and low component count programmer built under Attiny2313 AVR microcontroller. It is compatible with AVRDUDE and AVRStudio and works under Windows, Linux and MacOS.   This is not the fastest programmer but it can guarantee write speed of1 Kb/s and read speed of 2Kb/s. Other good feature is that it comes with both – 6 and 10 ISP connector types. You can build this adapter easily as all necessary files are available for download, or you can simply order a kit. Continue reading

32bit single board computer on 68HC000

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While looking for better performance than 8 bit microcontrollers Wichit Sirichote have constructed 32bit single board computer on old 68HC000 chip. He spend couple of months to finish his project and made quite powerful kit that is capable to run embedded linux.   Computer board features 68HC000 32 bit microcontroller running at 8 MHz speed, 256kB of FLASH memory and 256kB of SRAM. Other features include: GPIO: 8-bit output port, 8-bit input port, UART: 6850 9600 8n1, RTC: DS12887, Glue logic: DTACK, memory/io decoder, Xilink XC9572 CPLD, Monitor program: zBug V1.0 for 68000-Based Single Board Computer. There is also CPLD Xilinx 9572 used in board computer for decoding memory and generating necessary logic signals. Author intended to use this board to run GCC compiler. If you want to give a try – all files are available for download, but keep in mind that it is not easy project for beginners. Continue reading

Very simple countdown timer with 7 segment displays

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This is very simple countdown timer implemented on 89C2051 microcontroller. One button is used to set time up to 99 seconds, another is for starting timer. Time is displayed on two 7 segment LED displays.   Buttons and display scanning share same pins so algorithm has to check buttons and display time on LED displays in a row sequence. Source code is included that allows yo modify program and compile. Continue reading