tinyAVR Microcontroller Projects for the Evil Genius

This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to conceptualize, build, and program 34 tinyAVR microcontroller devices that you can use for either entertainment or practical purposes. After covering the development process, tools, and power supply sources, tinyAVR Microcontroller Projects for the Evil Genius gets you working on exciting LED, graphics LCD, sensor, audio, and alternate energy projects.

Using easy-to-find components and equipment, this hands-on guide helps you build a solid foundation in electronics and embedded programming while accomplishing useful--and slightly twisted--projects. Most of the projects have fascinating visual appeal in the form of large LED-based displays, and others feature a voice playback mechanism. Full source code and circuit files for each project are available for download.

tinyAVR Microcontroller Projects for the Evil Genius:

• Features step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations
• Allows you to customize each project for your own requirements

• Offers full source code for all projects for download Build these and other devious devices:

• Flickering LED candle
• Random color and music generator
• Mood lamp
• VU meter with 20 LEDs
• Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometer
• RGB dice
• Tengu on graphics display
• Spinning LED top with message display
• Contactless tachometer
• Electronic birthday blowout candles
• Fridge alarm
• Musical toy
• Batteryless infrared remote
• Batteryless persistence-of-vision toy Each fun, inexpensive Evil Genius project includes a detailed list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions for easy assembly. The larger workbook-style layout and convenient two-column format make following the step-by-step instructions a breeze.

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Auteur

Dhananjay V. Gadre is a scientific officer with the Instrumentation Program of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune, India. He has a M.Engr. from the University of Idaho and a M.Sc. from the University of Delhi. Dhananjays interests include computer architecture, communication networks, hardware-software co-design, programmable logic devices and Hardware Description Languages. He is a licensed radio amateur (VU2NOX). He has written articles for a number of electronics magazines, including Electronics World. He is also the author of Programming the Parallel Port: Interfacing the PC for Data Acquisition and Process Control (R&D Books, 1998).

Contenu

Introduction
Ch. 1 Tour de Tiny
Ch. 2 LED Projects
Ch. 3 Advanced LED Projects
Ch. 4 Graphics LCD Projects
Ch. 5 Sensor Projects
Ch. 6 Sound Projects
Appendix A Embedded C Jump Start for tinyAVR
Appendix B Using Eagle and Other Project Tools