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Great How-To’s and guides to help get your designs happening
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Beginning in KiCAD for Windows to Design Schematics
KiCAD is a free, open-source software for designing electronic schematics and PCB layouts.
This article will guide you through the steps of installing and starting to use KiCAD to develop, document and prepare for manufacture your electronic design.
Setting up Visual Studio Code for Arduino Programming
Today I decided to stop using the Arduino IDE and instead use the Arduino add-in for Visual Studio Code from Microsoft.
Having worked with Netbeans, MPLAB X and Visual Studio in the past, the Arduino IDE (version 1.8.1) really does not help with development.
Adding ARM Toolchain to MPLAB X Compilers
Coding for Amtel's SAMD in MPLAB X Being experienced in the PIC range of microcontrollers, using MPLAB's IDE is a comfortable environment to work in. However, until recently to develop for the Atmel ARM-Cortex chips meant needing to work in a second, less familiar IDE...
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Computer Presence Detector Project
Walkthrough the steps and mistakes as I build a presence detector using the Kemet pyroelectric...
Dual Motor PWM Control with Forward and Reverse Over WiFi
Understanding how to control a motor with a PWM signal is a very good skill to add to your toolkit...
Beginning in KiCAD for Windows to Design Schematics
KiCAD is a free, open-source software for designing electronic schematics and PCB layouts. This...
Setting up Visual Studio Code for Arduino Programming
Today I decided to stop using the Arduino IDE because it sucks! Having worked with Netbeans, MPLAB...
Adding ARM Toolchain to MPLAB X Compilers
Coding for Amtel's SAMD in MPLAB X Being experienced in the PIC range of microcontrollers, using...
Microcontroller Programming
Introduction to Programming in Assembly on the PIC18F452
We have provided a series of videos to walk your through programming in Assembly language on the Microchip PIC18F range of microcontrollers.
Computer Presence Detector Project
Using the Kemet pyro to detect when you leave your computer and automatically lock it and a short time later power off the peripherals, keeping your data safe and saving power.
Auto turns monitors on and prompts for a password when you return.
Dual Motor PWM Control with Forward and Reverse Over WiFi
Step by step how to control a motor with a PWM signal via a H-bridge on an ESP8288 using a WiFi interface. Covering principles of PWM signals in software and hardware, WiFi remote control and how a H-bridge works.