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1-07-2015 | This time we will look at the second of the three possible interfaces the SERCOM module is able to implement, I2C. For our first experiments...

1-07-2015 | Of course, you need a good deal of additional circuitry to safely measure the voltages and currents involved. With a microcontroller and the...

30-06-2015 | This simple Platino-based Transistor Tester is designed to test transistors in a simple and portable way. Since it is tedious to read the ma...

24-06-2015 | The Wino board is an Arduino-like stackable development system which is both smaller and cheaper than Arduino units and features built-in Wi...

4-06-2015 | For simplicity, most ICs — and in general any design upwards from a certain complexity — rely on clock ticks: a CLK signal governs the entir...

4-06-2015 | If you’ve developed with PICs or dsPICs, you’ve probably worked with the MPLAB IDE. It’s already been 4 years since MPLAB was replaced by MP...

4-06-2015 | Resolving the position of free roaming robots can be quite challenging. You can only expect to get accuracy of around 6 to 10 meters by usin...

19-05-2015 | If you want to learn more about radio telemetry programming using the PIC18F series, then Dogan Ibrahim’s new book is the one for you. Micro...

13-05-2015 | Christof, Field Application Engineer at Microchip, explains us how to quickly simulate, compile and implement control algorithms for our des...

1-05-2015 | Accurate timing is very important in the digital world. For that reason we turn in this installment of our course to the SAM D20’s timers, i...