These are the projects I recommend building instead of just buying something off the shelf.

You've got no excuse not to try them.

Abstract: The 89S52 microcontroller (MCU) is very popular among the students, teachers, amateurs, engineers, scientists, and hobbyists for building electronics projects and consumer products.

The Intel MCS-51 (commonly termed 8051) is a single chip microcontroller (MCU) series developed by Intel in 1980 for use in embedded systems. 8051 are first-generation microcontrollers that sparked ...

Before we dive deep into the 8051 microcontroller, let’s first explore the fundamental components: the microcontroller itself, the CPU (central processing unit), memory, and the bus system that ...

Choosing the appropriate device as the foundation for your new design can be overwhelming. The need to make the right balance of price, performance, and power consumption has many implications.

This project includes inverse assemblers for the Intel 8031 and 8051 microcontrollers and high-speed variants to be used with older Hewlett-Packard and Agilent logic analyzers. The inverse assembler ...