Zaid Pirwani

an all-round Engineering and Technology Geek, founder EjaadTech and Pop Up Learning – currently, IT Manager at FESF

Category: AVR Stuff

  • LASER Ball [How-to]

    LASER Ball [How-to]

    Who can argue with a DIY Instructable when it has all the things that I love – LASERS, Arduino and Infrared. So without further ado, I present here Laser Ball, inspiring me to do a bit more work on Arduino. A complete guide on ho to make one yourself is provided at the instructables site,…

  • LCD Interfacing with AVR – [Library Explanation]

    LCD Interfacing with AVR – [Library Explanation]

    A few days ago, I posted a video+post about how to interface AVR with a text LCD (link: LCD Interfacing with AVR – [VIDEO + FILES]), but I had no time to explain some of the modifications which can be done in the library to get desired results. In this post I will try to…

  • LCD Interfacing with AVR – [VIDEO + FILES]

    LCD Interfacing with AVR – [VIDEO + FILES]

    My friend asked me to make a demo video for him on how to interface AVR with a Text LCD using a LCD Library available freely(links below). After procrastinating as much as I could, I finally made the video, prepared it for upload, finalized the files etc and now here is this post… I will…

  • Unsuccessful Installation [Better]

    Unsuccessful Installation [Better]

    So today, I was playing with AVR, USB, USB AVR Devices, etc; you know electronics and stuff. While trying out the AVR device I had maed on Windows 7, I was supposed to install some drivers etc, so I downloaded the driver, extracted it and ran, what I got after that was an unsuccessful installation…

  • AVR Fuse-Bit Fixer

    AVR Fuse-Bit Fixer

    All the time working and learning on AVRs, I made a lot of mistakes, partly to not checking for the correct the voltages, not putting limiting resistors or shorting stuff out, etc. So, I got myself a lot of BAD/DEAD AVRs, some were completely DEAD, but some had a problem which prevented me from programming…