USB Data acquisition with PIC18F4550

Monday, October 31st, 2011

This project is simple and small component count USB data acquisition or USB DAQ. The main core of USB device is PIC18F4550 .The firmware for PIC modified from Microchip CDC library. When connect this USB Data acquisition with PC then windows ask for driver after driver installed(only first time) you will have a new COMx [...]

LCD Clock-Calendar with 16F628

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

The reason why I’m using a LCD display is because it allow me to display many characters and it doesn’t need to be “refreshed” as 7-segment Led displays. Also, the interface requieres less I/O pins. For this project I used a 16×1 LCD Display with 4-bits interface. 22pF capacitors keeps the clock accurate. Read the [...]

A/D converter 16Bit with LCD and PIC18F2550

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

The analog to digital converter (ADC) is a commonly required in most of the projects. Analog voltage measurement can be done using the ADC hardware built in together in a PIC. The picture below show a simple setup for measuring the voltage through the adjustment of the potentiometer. PIC used in this example come with [...]