In this article Steven Moughan shows us how to setup for PIC microcontroller development on Linux. Steve writes the following…
PICs are great, they really are… they have great features, decent instruction sets,
there’s lots to choose from, their manufacturer released a great IDE (MPlab) what could go wrong? Unfortunately the PIC is somewhat lacking when […]

In this article Frank explains the code used in the Wii Nunchuck Mouse article. Each piece of the code is explained clearly. If you want to understand how the Wii Nunchuck Mouse works or learn about programming then this is a good article to read.
Coverage includes the Arduino microcontroller code and the Autoit scripts […]

In this short article Frank provides example code to use the Nintendo Wii Nunchuck as a mouse. In this previous article we looked at the Nunchuck and an adaptor board I purchased from Todbot. I also mentioned making a mouse device using the Nunchuck using ideas from Bernard’s Accelerometer Based Mouse article. Frank has done […]

My son is about to graduate as an Electronics Engineer and is doing a project involving DSP and RF (radio frequency). He needed a good source for an LO (local oscillator) for his radio and ended up purchasing an interesting kit at AmQRP. This kit uses an Analog Devices AD9850 DDS chip which you have […]

Bernard introduces us to the dsPIC microcontroller. He shows us his Arduino like project board for a dsPIC and gives advice on software development tools.
This article was submitted by Bernard Klinc as part of the “Hobby parts for articles” program. Bernard received a graphic LCD module for this great article. You may remember Bernard […]

I did some more scrounging to create a mini Locnar using the LEDs from a Glade Light Show air freshener. The wall wart had previously been scrounged from this air freshener for the bread board power supply. Now we reuse part of the circuit board with the LEDs combined with what we learned in […]

In this article Juan Mateos creates a PIC version of the Tengu companion. Tengu was originally developed by Crispin Jones as a USB controlled LED matrix that made faces and lip synced to music or other sounds it hears with a built in microphone. Juan created a PIC microchip version as an exercise to […]

In this article I describe the simple setup and explain the code to drive analog meters using PWM outputs from an Arduino and the LCD Smartie program. I also replace the meter face to show the proper scale. Replacing the meter scale is very easy to do with most meters and can really add some […]

A uCHobby reader informed us of a design contest Renesas is running with prizes of $15,000 in cash. Renesas provides a free $80 evaluation board to work with as part of the contest so no one actually looses. Thanks to Daniel Johnson for passing the news.
The theme of the contest is applications for their new […]

Daniel Joliffe has been updating the Freeduino site. One of the exciting changes is that he has free advertising for sites devoted to DIY and open hardware. I am honored to be one of the sites given this opportunity.
Featured sites include the main Arduino site, Libelium, Modern Device Company, NKC Electronics, PHAndeson, RepRap, The Shoppe […]