Saturday, 11 August 2012

UPCOMING!!..A Simple Smart Distribution Panel

FEELING TOO LAZY TO PROGRAM IT!!..LoLz
FEATURES
  • Uses push buttons for switching circuits
  • Over voltage and under voltage protection
  • Over current protection
  • Automatic transfer to alternative power source
  • LCD display of which circuits are ON/OFF as well as some circuit parameters

Friday, 13 July 2012

Something SIMPLE!!...REMOTE POWER SUPPLY & PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM

Something SIMPLE!!
REMOTE POWER SUPPLY & PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM
This system senses pressure and power availability from three remote areas. The based station collates the data sent from the remote units, this data can be sent via radio or cables, depending on the distance. The base station formats and displays the data on the LCD....
If all the pressures are within range(in this case less than 20kpa) and there is no power outage in any of the remote areas, The GREEN LED will light up, else the RED LED will.


The Various Partz...

POWER MONITORING UNIT!!
*Some work still to be done read RED TEXT ON PICTURE
Basically, voltage transformation, rectification and filtering.
 

PRESSURE SENSING UNIT!
Implemented  with MPX4250
 

RTUs
Sense Power and Pressure and send data to Base station...
*A waste of microcontrollers I think!!


Base Station & HMI
The Base Station basically controls the HMI(LCD, BUZZER, & LEDs) based on the information it receives.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Easy....Simulate Your Microcontroller PROJECTS!!

Proteus Virtual System Modelling (VSM) combines mixed mode SPICE circuit simulation, animated components and microprocessor models to facilitate co-simulation of complete microcontroller based designs. For the first time ever, it is possible to develop and test such designs before a physical prototype is constructed.
This is possible because you can interact with the design using on screen indicators such as LED and LCD displays and actuators such as switches and buttons. The simulation takes place in real time (or near enough to it): a 1GMHz Pentium III can simulate a basic 8051 system clocking at over 12MHz. Proteus VSM also provides extensive debugging facilities including breakpoints, single stepping and variable display for both assembly code and high level language source.

Best Microcontroller Programming Tool.......Well to ME!

Great Cow BASIC is a BASIC compiler for PIC and AVR microcontrollers. It lets you to program in BASIC instead of having to learn assembly. It's also completely free!

Great Cow BASIC has been written with three main aims - to remove the need for repetitive assembly commands, to produce efficient code, and to make it easy to take code written for one chip and run it on another. It hides many of the more confusing parts of microcontroller programming, making it suitable for beginners and those who don't like assembly.

The syntax of Great Cow BASIC is based on that of QBASIC/FreeBASIC, but with some alterations to suit the vastly different system that it compiles for. Great Cow BASIC will allow you to program most 8 bit PIC microcontrollers (10F, 12C, 12F, 16C, 16F, 18C and 18F chips), and also includes near-complete support for most AVR microcontrollers (Classic AVR, Tiny AVR and Mega AVR).