Wire up your microcontroller to power and ground according to its circuit diagram.
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Observos which combines an ATMEL microcontroller (with integrated wireless) with a host of on-board sensors.
In lieu of a human operator, the machine is activated using a specially programmed Arduino microcontroller.
Olympia Circuits was founded by Peter Gould and Kevin Warner to develop Arduino and other microcontroller projects.
Historically microcontroller firms such as Microchip, Atmel, stmicroelectronics and NEC have created their own architectures and design tools.
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Launched yesterday at Maker Faire Bay Area, it's the company's first product that extends beyond single microcontroller boards.
Arduino is the now-famous microcontroller that has set a portion of the maker community free to design amazing creations.
This means a single analog input of the microcontroller is shared among all the input channels (except the 3-axis accelerometer).
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Improving on a good idea, however, is truly the ultimate homage, according to the makers of the new Pinoccio microcontroller.
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The Arduino Esplora is a microcontroller board derived from the Arduino Leonardo.
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In this case, we used a BX24 microcontroller from BasicX.
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That microcontroller communicates via Bluetooth with a smartphone that sits in the front of of the boat, safely cocooned inside an Otterbox case.
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Actually piloting the robo-bug is achieved through a smartphone app, but an on-board ARM-based microcontroller makes small adjustments to ensure stability during flight.
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This latest release is a modular software solution that can run on an embedded microcontroller or host processor, which provides greater implementation flexibility than its predecessor.
The sensor itself is a strip of plastic filled with flexible sensors connected to a small microcontroller module with three indicator LEDs and a micro-USB port.
The company was letting visitors try out its new talking-shoe concept, with a custom-made microcontroller (along with assorted SparkFun pieces) on the tongue of a pair of Adidas.
LightUp even offers an Arduino-compatible microcontroller block to help kids start coding -- clip the programming wand to the block, hook it up to your computer, and away you go.
Four additional microcontroller pins choose which channel to read.
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Motorola recently announced an aggressive plan to push its Nitron line of microcontroller chips, which it sells for about 70 cents each, into products ranging from TV remote controls to coffee pots.
The microcontroller also delivers performance that stacks up well with an Arduino Mega but at a smaller size -- the Pinoccio only measures a couple of inches long and an inch wide.
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Only a few of these modular components have been designed so far: the AVR-X (an Arduino-compatible microcontroller), FRAM-X (512 byte chunks of stackable Ferroelectric RAM) and ADC-X (an 8-channel analog to digital converter).
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My maker friend, Danny Rexin, spent some time with the Arno and his review may help you decide if you want to purchase an Arno: Microcontroller Review: The Arno From Olympia Circuits.
By integrating Intrinsic ID's PUF technology into its secure microcontroller SmartMX2, NXP significantly enhances the chip's security architecture and strengthens applications such as NFC-enabled mobile payment, electronic ticketing, and eGovernment and cyber security services.
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The base is connected to a 10K ohm reistor which is connected to the serial data output pin of your microcontroller (ours is pin 1 aka TX aka the pin on the upper left).
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The microcontroller-driven stage allows anyone to quickly create a piece of miniature theater using handcrafted puppets and an impressive selection of buttons, knobs and switches -- all lovingly handcrafted out of wood on this prototype.
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Although he confesses to being a "coding novice, " Langevin taught himself how to use Arduino -- a very cheap and increasingly popular microcontroller -- so that he could get his prosthetic hand to move.
The sensor data are processed by a microcontroller on the glove then sent via Bluetooth to a mobile device, which translates the positions of the hand and fingers into text when the pattern is recognized.
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But in spite of Arduino's near ubiquity these days, we'll admit that we were a bit taken aback when the familiar blue microcontroller made an appearance on a lab desk during our conversation with NASA "lighting guy, " Dr. Eirik Holbert.
From a man who had used it to create a "smart" cat feeder able to recognise each of his cats and give them the correct amount of food, to quadcopters used to transport things from one African village to another, access to a cheap microcontroller was creating a buzz in the maker community, he said.
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