tinyAvr Microcontroller Projects for the Evil Genius (ELECTRONICS) - Softcover

Gadre, Dhananjay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071744541 ISBN 13: 9780071744546

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics, 2011

Synopsis

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CREATE FIENDISHLY FUN tinyAVR MICROCONTROLLER PROJECTS

This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to conceptualize, build, and program 34 tinyAVR microcontroller devices that you can use for either entertainment or practical purposes. After covering the development process, tools, and power supply sources, tinyAVR Microcontroller Projects for the Evil Genius gets you working on exciting LED, graphics LCD, sensor, audio, and alternate energy projects.

Using easy-to-find components and equipment, this hands-on guide helps you build a solid foundation in electronics and embedded programming while accomplishing useful--and slightly twisted--projects. Most of the projects have fascinating visual appeal in the form of large LED-based displays, and others feature a voice playback mechanism. Full source code and circuit files for each project are available for download.

tinyAVR Microcontroller Projects for the Evil Genius:

• Features step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations
• Allows you to customize each project for your own requirements
• Offers full source code for all projects for download

Build these and other devious devices:

• Flickering LED candle
• Random color and music generator
• Mood lamp
• VU meter with 20 LEDs
• Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometer
• RGB dice
• Tengu on graphics display
• Spinning LED top with message display
• Contactless tachometer
• Electronic birthday blowout candles
• Fridge alarm
• Musical toy
• Batteryless infrared remote
• Batteryless persistence-of-vision toy

Each fun, inexpensive Evil Genius project includes a detailed list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions for easy assembly. The larger workbook-style layout and convenient two-column format make following the step-by-step instructions a breeze.

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 272 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Create FIENDISHLY FUN the tinyAVR MICROCONTROLLER PROJECTSThis wickedly Inventive guide Shows you how to conceptualize Build and Program 34 of tinyAVR Microcontroller Devices that you CAN USE for either entertainment or practical Purposes . After covering the development process. tools. and power supply sources. tinyAVR Microcontroller Projects for the Evil Genius gets you working on exciting LED. graphics LCD. sensor. audio. and alternate energy projects.Using easy-to-find components and equipment. this hands-on guide helps you build a solid foundation in electronics and embedded programming while accomplishing useful-and slightly twisted-projects. Most of the projects have fascinating visual appeal in the form of large LED-based displays. and others feature a voice playback mechanism. Full source code and circuit ...

About the Author

Dhananjay V. Gadre is a scientific officer with the Instrumentation Program of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune, India. He has a M.Engr. from the University of Idaho and a M.Sc. from the University of Delhi. Dhananjays interests include computer architecture, communication networks, hardware-software co-design, programmable logic devices and Hardware Description Languages. He is a licensed radio amateur (VU2NOX). He has written articles for a number of electronics magazines, including Electronics World. He is also the author of Programming the Parallel Port: Interfacing the PC for Data Acquisition and Process Control (R&D Books, 1998).

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0071744541
• ISBN 13: 9780071744546
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272