WOW- Electronic Skills Using Surface Mount Devices (SMDs)

Nowadays, electronics components are getting smaller and smaller. Devices with the through-hole leads are rarely seen in most consumer electronics. Electronics hobbyists find difficulties in securing some through-hole type because new design packages are widely used. New packages are in a very small size such as the surface-mount devices (SMD). Hobbyists are having too hard to deal working on these small components. For those who did not attempt to work on small electronic component packages such SMDs, SMTs, etc, this video will provide you the first step in developing your electronics skills using SMDs.

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WOW-UCPRO - PIC Microcontroller Programmer Project

UCPRO - PIC Microcontroller Programmer Project

The Final Product of the design:

I build this MCU programmer to program PIC MCU’s. My own version is almost 100% similar to the programmer sold in the market. The documentation of this project is available in the following link:

http://www.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit%20/ezpic/index.html

The Printed-circuit layout (Component Placement View):

The Component Placement side layout (Component Placement View):

The near-completion of the circuit (Component Placement View):

Ready-to-use actual PCB layout (download PDF):

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WOW- My Earlier Microntroller Project

My Earlier Microntroller Project

I build a microcontroller project for the general purpose applications. Most of these components are ordered from a supplier in the United States. The microcontroller devices help save cost, time and effort to build electronics projects. Microcontroller a.k.a. MCU is the brain of all smart electronics system. Examples of electrical appliances or electronic systems are microwave oven, washing machine, CD players, MP3 players, cellphones, etc.

In this project, I studied deeply on how to manipulate data and processing of the MCU. Using light-emitting diodes or LEDs, demonstrate the response of it. Commonly used microcontrollers nowadays are PIC from Microchip, ATMEGA from ATMEL, and AVR. There are other electronic manufacturers producing MCUs such as STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Panasonic, Cypress Semiconductor, and many more.

If any project is requiring a short development time, there are lots of MCU development boards available in the market. There are many devboards to choose depending on the application requirements.

From the video shown, an up/down counter is incorporated in the MCU project. I work on this project for my hobby and robotic projects.


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