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Making your own AVR Programmer
on Oct 11, 2008 in controller atmega micro development board avr programmer make Having worked on a parallel port bot before,I wanted to move on to something more complicated.Making intelligent bots,that work on only sensors,somehow didn't appeal to me and I wanted software to play some role on it...So I decided to work on a micr...
Writing code for your AVR Micro-controller
on Oct 15, 2008 in controller atmega fun robotics engineering micro development board avr beginners programmer Ok, now that you've made the programmer, I am sure you will be raring to go and program the microcontroller with it.Before you begin to do anything, check this :1. Check the continuity(using the multimeter) of various pins of the parallel port with t...
LCD Interfacing
on Dec 13, 2008 in controller atmega interfacing LCD fun engineering development board avr beginners Often, when you are working with micro-controllers, you might feel the need to see what conditions are being executed or what input the micro-controllers are taking. For that, you can always use LEDs, but then LEDs are a very clumsy and confusing way...
Fuse Bits : Changing your MCU speed and JTAG
on Dec 15, 2008 in speed controller atmega fun fuse bits engineering avr beginners jtag mcu When you begin with micro-controllers, and you are reading the datasheets or tutorials, you are very likely to have come across the term "Fuse Bits" which relate to the MCU speed and JTAG.Being beginners and not having the slightest idea about both,...
Data Communication : UART
on Jan 2, 2009 in VJTI USART controller atmega fun robotics engineering micro avr UART mcu One useful feature of a micro-controller is that it can send and receive data to and from another micro-controller or computer. This is particularly useful when we are using plenty of micro-controllers and data-communication between them is needed. A...