Category: AVR Stuff

Arduino an Explanation – AVR @ Heart

I have been asked again and again by my friends and students to use Arduino or not and some people who are using AVR asked me if Arduino is better and some who were using Arduino asked the same about AVR. Well, here it goes, [this is all that I know, haven’t researched or confirm any…

August 13, 2015
Simulating Arduino [Steps for Windows/PC]

This is a STEP-by-STEP post, no-nonsense approach to simulating an Arduino on your PC, for those who don’t have the actual Arduino hardware, but have the following Required Software: Arduino [Free] Download from http://arduino.cc Proteus [NOT-Free] (I am assuming you have a licensed version from school or something (google maybe) From here on, I will…

June 30, 2013
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…

February 22, 2013
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…

February 11, 2013
Vero-BoArduino

Recently I have been using Arduino more and more, and since I don’t own any actual Arduino boards I had to put the hex generated by the Arduino IDE to my custom AVR Boards either manually or by using the “Upload Using Programmer” option in the IDE. With a USBasp programmer, you can program an…

January 2, 2013