A forgotten or unknown administrator or supervisor password on an IBM ThinkPad can cause great concern if you cannot access it and it has important data. Unlike the power-on password, you cannot reset ...

For novices: yet another Embedded C Programming Tutorial based on 8-bit AVR micro-controllers, using Microchip/Atmel Studio (not Arduino IDE). The software development environment (PC application) ...

There are several ways to program AVR microcontrollers. We are programming it with USBASP v2.0 serial programmer. For demonstration we will use ATmega16 Microcontroller and Atmel Studio. We will test ...

Atmega16 has four dedicated PWM pins. These pins are PB3(OC0), PD4(OC1B), PD5(OC1A), PD7(OC2). Also Atmega16 has two 8-bit timers and one 16 bit timer. Timer0 and Timer2 are 8-bit timers whereas ...

Hobbyking/Turnigy ave just released a radio called 9XR which has a port for a programmer and an installed backlight. This is a very welcome addition since it makes programming the radio very easy for ...

The ATMega168 is a great general purpose 8-bit AVR microcontroller from Atmel. It has 23 GPIO pins, but sometimes (as I have found) you can run out of I/O pins as your design grows. This happened to ...

There are many reasons to build your own Arduino circuit on a protoboard or a custom-designed printed circuit board. At the heart of the Arduino platform is an AVR microcontroller, in usual way you ...

Atmel’s XMEGA series of microcontrollers are neat little pieces of hardware; with a very fast clock, a ton of IO, USB, and up to 8 UART ports, these neat little chips serve as a nice bridge between ...

We love looking at hardcore electronics projects with a beefy microcontroller and hundreds, if not thousands, of lines of code at its center. But everyone needs to get there somehow. This tutorial ...

The ODYSSEY - X86J4105, is based on Intel Celeron J4105, a Quad-Core 1.5GHz CPU that bursts up to 2.5GHz. It has all the great features that a standard Computer needs, including an 8GB LPDDR4 RAM, ...