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Reading Time: 16 minutesIntroduction: From Code to the Real World Up until now, we’ve been working inside the microcontroller. Now it’s time to look outwardly at the connections we can make to a microcontroller with other devices. In Section 1, we explored the fundamentals using the Arduino Uno—learning how to write code, control pins, and begin thinking like […]
Reading Time: 50 minutesIntroduction In Part 5, of the Circuit Component Super Series, we introduced microcontrollers as the control layer — the decision-making core that transforms simple circuits into intelligent systems. Now it’s time to go deeper and understand how it works internally. This article breaks down the fundamental building blocks you’ll encounter in nearly every microcontroller project: […]
Reading Time: 29 minutesIntroduction In Part 5, of the Circuit Component Super Series, we introduced microcontrollers as the control layer — the decision-making core that transforms simple circuits into intelligent systems. Now it’s time to go deeper and understand how it works internally. This article breaks down the fundamental building blocks you’ll encounter in nearly every microcontroller project: […]
Reading Time: 13 minutesIntroduction The following is Part 5, of a planned 12 part super series on the topic of components. We started with what components are and then we learned how to decipher their symbols to read circuit schematic diagrams. After learning about circuit symbols and diagrams, we put components to work by building an analog circuit […]
Reading Time: 13 minutesProject Name: OwlBot Project Description: In this section of Part 6, we create the connectors we need to connect the OwlBot’s components to the Arduino shield board and daughter-board. Project Difficulty: Moderate Project Note: For this part of the project we will be using a soldering iron and heat-gun. Use caution when handling hot items. […]
Reading Time: 39 minutesIntroduction Okey dokey, we’re back on track again. We kinda took a big detour there for a while after Part 3 of this series titled How Components Work Together. We got into a discussion on astable multivibrators, then we answered some questions on our last project — the LED blinker circuit — and we gained […]
Reading Time: 22 minutesIntroduction Welcome back! In this series, we’re still continuing our goal to understand analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) of a PIC microcontroller, and how to program one to accept and convert an analog input. It is my personal goal to help guide you to do this in a way that I learned from a terrific book I […]
Reading Time: 23 minutesIntroduction The following content is intended to be a companion to the LED blinker circuit we created from our article titled, “How Components Work Together in Real Circuits.” The sole purpose of this discussion is to work as an extended topic for that article to help you understand your circuit better, to help clarify what’s […]
Reading Time: 17 minutesIntroduction The following content is intended to be a companion to the LED blinker circuit we created from our article titled, “How Components Work Together in Real Circuits.” The sole purpose of this discussion is to work as an extended topic for that article to help you understand your circuit better, to help clarify what’s […]
Reading Time: 15 minutesIntroduction The following content is intended to be a companion to the LED blinker circuit we created from our article titled, “How Components Work Together in Real Circuits.” The sole purpose of this discussion is to work as an extended topic for that article to help you understand your circuit better, and to help clarify […]
