Beaglebone Black PWM on Ubuntu 16.04 Using Device Tree Overlay
Now we'll use the Beaglebone Black PWM in controlling a servo motor PWM, which is short for pulse width modulation, is widely used for controlling motors (dc and servomotors)...
Beaglebone Black: Controlling On-board LEDs
In this post, I flashed a LED connected to one of the Beaglebone Black's GPIO pins Here I will flash the user or on-board LEDs on the device using the same method we did on the...
Beaglebone Black Blink LED using C++
The first thing I did when I had my Beaglebone Black (BBB) was toy with it using C++ The "hello world" of embedded programming is LED blinking so that's what I did Note that the...
Using PIC Timer with PIC16F84A
In this tutorial, I will discuss how to use the PIC16F84A microcontroller timer module for a variety of applications including turning a LED on and off without the use of a...
Programming the STM32F1 Discovery
So I got this STM32F1 discovery board about a year ago but I haven't had the time to play with it There are a number of reasons why I purchased it: 1) I wanted to start studying...
PIC Interrupt with PIC16F84A
So far we have discussed how to code microcontrollers sequentially, ie, the device performs the code from top to bottom and may branch out to labels (via goto) or subroutines (via...
The PIC16F84A - A Beginners Microcontroller
We'll start with the PIC16F84A - aka the beginners microcontroller This MCU from Microchip has been around since 1998 and is the successor to the very first serially programmable...
An Introduction to PIC Assembly Language Programming
Most people have nightmares about PIC assembly language programming while some would say it's a waste of time I've experienced both so I agree PICs can be programmed much easier...