| Here’s a microcontroller that’s supposed to talk to a device over a SPI bus. You’ve set up the MCU’s SPI peripheral and wrote a test progra...
| Here’s a microcontroller that’s supposed to talk to a device over a SPI bus. You’ve set up the MCU’s SPI peripheral and wrote a test progra...
| The “legacy” serial port is still used a lot for interfaces between electronic devices and PCs. Here we present a compact implementation, ba...
| Since the DB25 / DB9 serial port has disappeared on modern PCs, it is getting complicated to connect up legacy equipment with RS-232 connect...
| Tiny low power radio (LPR) modules operating at UHF ISM frequencies like 433 MHz and 868 MHz are available on the market that are ideal for...
| This small module has been designed to individually control five LEDs used to illuminate model buildings. The control signal is sent over a...
| This neat design allows you to use a standard USB memory stick to store data in a microcontroller-based system. Memory sticks provide a larg...
| Two years ago, I presented here the USB/TTL serial conversion cables from FTDI — wonderful communication and debugging tools. The increasing...
| The programmer described here reads and writes to the Xilinx family of serial PROMs. The PC software is written in Turbo Pascal and the prog...
| Many motherboards these days only offer limited space for expansion cards, and integrated sound chips are generally not so well suited to hi...
| In last month’s article we took a look at the background and specification of the OBD-2 diagnostic connector fitted to new cars. Now, as pro...