VL53L0X is a LIDAR based sensor which measures the distance between an object and a sensor. It measures distance up to 2m. This laser ranging sensor operates in a range of 2.5 to 3.6 volts and uses a time of flight principle for measuring distance. The sensor consists of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). This … Read more
HMC5883L is a magnetometer module developed by Honeywell using anisotropic magnetoresistive technology. It is a multichip module that behaves as a digital compass IC to find the direction and measures the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field along the X, Y and Z-axis. HMC5883L module converts the magnetic field into differential voltage output on … Read more
The TEENSY 3.6 development board consists of a 32-bit ARM Cortex M4 programmable microcontroller. It is Arduino compatible having 180MHZ processor along with a floating-point unit. It has a bootloader so you can easily program it through High-speed on-board USB port. In other words, it has an onboard programmer and debugger. Therefore, we don’t need … Read more
LT3750 is a flyback converter which can charge capacitors of any size. This chip uses a patented boundary mode control scheme. This scheme reduces the size of the transformer integrated into chip and losses due to transition. It has a wide range of input voltages and charges high voltage capacitors rapidly and quickly. Recommended Components … Read more
OP07 is a precision operational amplifier IC consisting of a single operational amplifier inside a chip. The OP07 operational amplifier has a slew rate is the rate of 0.3-V/μs. It performs a low noise operation and has a wide input voltage range. It has features of internal frequency compensation and offset nulling. Recommended Components The … Read more
The DAC0808 IC is a monolithic digital to analog converter which takes an 8-bit digital data as an input and sends an analog signal at the output. It has high accuracy and utilizes very low power. Electronic devices like music players, televisions, mobiles, CD players gaming systems, etc. use this chip for the conversion of … Read more
In this tutorial, we will learn to interface DHT22 temperature and humidity sensor with pic microcontroller. We will begin with an introduction of DHT22, its pinout diagram, Features, internal circuit. After that we will discuss interfacing circuit diagram. At the end of tutorial, we see programming examples in MPLAB compiler and MikroC Pro for pic. … Read more
In this tutorial, you will learn how to interface the MAX7219 8-digit 7-segment controller IC with PIC Microcontroller. MAX7219 has a built-in circuit to control 8 seven-segment displays. Firstly, it communicates with microcontrollers over SPI communication. Hence, only three pins are required to control 8 seven-segment displays. Secondly, we can use MAX7219 to control dot … Read more
Learn to interface 74HC595 with a 7-segment display and Pic microcontroller. By using a 74HC595 shift register to drive 7-segment displays with PIC16F877A microcontroller, we can save GPIO pins of PIC microcontroller. In this tutorial, we learn to interface single-digit and 4-digit 7-segment with PIC16F877A microcontroller using a serial-in and parallel-out shift register IC. Recommended … Read more
In this in-depth guide, we will see how to interface 74HC595 shift register with pic microcontroller. 74HC595 is a serial-in and parallel-out shift register. It takes data serially and provides data parallelly through 8 data lines. In this tutorial, we will see how to send data to 74HC595 from PIC16F877A to control eight LEDs. We … Read more