Category: Projects
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Project Files: Tachtastic – AVR Tachometer
On demand of a site-visitor (Mohsen) I have uploaded all the relevant files that I had for the project Tachtastic: AVR Tachometer, you can download and view them. The files are more than a year old and show how I coded back then and were not meant for uploading – but now that I have…
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Phase and Integral Cycle AC Power Control with Arduino
What you see above is a project made for my Power Electronics Course, last term, finally completed and submitted. It is an AVR based board having 2 optically-isolated TRIACs for AC Power Control and implements both Phase Control and Burst Fire Control on each of the TRIACs. Controllable by an NEC IR Remote, shows status…
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Pakistan’s Independence Day 2012 – LED Matrix Display
I finally completed writing code for a Marquee Display and since I used the morning of 14th August to write this code, the least I could do was to celebrate Pakistan’s Independence Day as the first message and test for my code. The code has DEFINE(s) for Display Length, Message Length, Speed Control and a…
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UART Library [Quick Tutorial]
Having easy UART Functionality can be of great use in AVR Projects, even if they don’t need the UART fucntionality, the UART can be used as a great debugging tool (sending program status to the UART as a console). Peter Fleury has a AVR UART Library as well along with his AVR LCD Library which…
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L297-L298 Stepper Driver V2 – Vero-Board [Gallery]
Some might say I am getting obsessed with stepper motor drivers… Just finished making 3 Stepper Motor Drivers on Vero-Board using the all too common stepper driver duo the L297 and L298 ICs, stepper motor wires connect to these boards via an RJ45 connector as the wires need to go through a good length, I…