Just like a PC’s USB port, the serial port on a PC can also in some cases serve as a power supply. A USB port can provide as much as 500 mA at 5V, but a serial port provides less power. Even with the ...

As promised, this part starts with a simple programming tutorial on the PIC12F675 microcontroller which shows you how to program and use it as a simple LED flasher. It’s assumed that you have ...

In last week's installment, we showed how to get started with Csound. This week we take it to the next step by constructing a homemade MIDI controller circuit and use the new device to control Csound ...

Khoa wanted to give a friend a microcontroller programmer (cache), but didn’t want to spend the money. He found almost every part he needed inside of a broken monitor he had in the closet. The only ...

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2003--Data I/O(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:DAIO), the leading provider of manual and automated programming systems today announced support for Flash-based ...

A complete microcontroller development kit for little more than the cost of a bare chip? That’s what STMicroelectronics is promising with their STM8S-Discovery: seven dollars gets you not only a board ...