In this article, you will learn how to design a digital thermometer using a PIC microcontroller and MCP9700. You will learn how to interface MCP9700 with a PIC16F877A microcontroller and how to measure temperature using the MCP9700 low power voltage output temperature sensor. Before reading this article, you should have an idea of LCD interfacing … Read more
This article will teach you how to interface the PIC16F877A microcontroller and the ATmega88 AVR microcontroller with the temperature sensor DS18S20. It includes the complete circuit diagram and code for both microcontrollers. The code for interfacing the DS18S20 with the PIC microcontroller is written using MikroC for PIC, while the code for the AVR microcontroller … Read more
Zero crossing detector circuit is designed to detect the zero crossing of a sine wave. It is used for AC Power control circuits. If you are an electronics engineer and you are working on power electronics projects, you may come across many situations where you have to read the frequency of a sine wave or … Read more
Demand of electrical energy is increasing day by day. So different power sources are being used in modern power system. Researchers are trying to make power systems more and more efficient. Solar tracking system is also a part of that research to make power sources more efficient. Solar tracking is used to extract more power … Read more
The article explores a solar tracking system using a PIC microcontroller. Readers will gain an understanding of what a solar tracking system is, the necessity for such a system, the current methods in use, the process of designing a solar tracking system, a circuit diagram, and writing code for a solar tracking system using a … Read more
In this tutorial, you will learn to interface oa servo motor with the PIC16F877A microcontroller. This tutorial covers the programming required to control the servo motor, as well as the hardware connections between the servo motor and the PIC16F877A microcontroller. Let’s start with a basic introduction to the servo motor. Then, I will move forward … Read more
In this tutorial, you will learn a very simple method of interfacing a keypad with a PIC microcontroller. Interfacing a keypad with any microcontroller such as PIC16F877A microcontroller involves connecting the keypad to the microcontroller’s GPIO pins and writing a program to read the keypad inputs. Therefore, you should know how to use GPIO pins … Read more
Automatic control of street lights is designed to turn on and off street lights automatically. This project checks the amount of light. If the light is 80 percent available, it automatically turns off street lights. But, if the amount of light is less than 80 percent, this project will automatically turn on street lights. One … Read more
The wireless temperature sensor has been designed to measure temperature from a remote location and send it to your mobile device through the SIM900D GSM module. We use the PIC16F877A microcontroller to measure temperature using an LM35 temperature sensor. Then, we interface the microcontroller with the SIM900D GSM module to send the temperature via SMS … Read more
Send SMS using a GSM module and PIC microcontroller: This article explains how to send SMS using a GSM module and PIC microcontroller. It also covers the use of AT commands for sending and receiving SMS. I have already posted an article on GSM module interfacing with PIC microcontroller. I suggest you go through that … Read more