Cheap light-based PC to microcontroller communication
We’ve seen some pretty cool projects that use blinking lights on a PC monitor to transfer data to a microcontroller. We did a little research, and here are some example projects we’ve found. This...
View ArticleFTDI releases the FT311D USB host IC which provides easy communication with...
FTDI released the FT311D USB host IC for easy communication with Android devices. It features 7 GPIOs, one I2C peripheral, one UART, one SPI, and 4 PWM peripherals. The device acts as a USB host to...
View ArticleAmazing new touchscreen interface
Fujitsu Laboratories: Touchscreen interface for seamless data transfer between the real and virtual worlds This new gadget comes directly from Fujitsu Laboratories. They developed what seems to be the...
View ArticleMSP430 optical mouse chip interface – phase 1
JWoodrell over at the 430h forum shares his experience interfacing an optical mouse IC (AVAGO ADNS-2051) to an MSP430G2553: My current plan is to gut optical mice for their sensor + lense i can get...
View ArticleInterfacing the ADS8328 to an MSP430
juani_c has written an article detailing how to interface the ADS8328 to an MSP430: The ADS8328 is a high-speed, low power, successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC)...
View ArticleInsomni’hack CTF 2014: Bus Pirate used as a serial interface to communicate...
Bus Pirate was used to communicate to a MSP430 microcontroller at Insomni’hack CTF2014 challenge. q3k of DragonSector writes: The devboard is obviously a Texas Instruments MSP430 launchpad. Attached...
View ArticleA Haskell interface to the Bus Pirate binary interface
Ben Gamari writes, “This package provides a simple, type-safe interface for working with the Bus Pirate’s binary interface.” Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping....
View ArticleUSB to RS485
Marko Pavlin has published a new build: Testing of sensors with RS485 using PC without proper interface is not possible. Since RS232 interfaces are very rare, the interface should be hooked to USB....
View ArticleATtiny based bidirectional motor control using L293D
Rahul over at Xanthium has posted a tutorial on interfacing ATtiny with L293D: In this tutorial we will learn to interface L293D with ATMEL ATtiny microcontroller and control them bidirectionally.The...
View ArticleTiny, isolated USB to Xcvr interface (PTT, Audio, CAT, …)
Mare writes: I will describe here the USB interface between the radio station and the computer which I recently developed and tested. This post is a continuation of the first part, where I described a...
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