Nowadays most popular microcontrollers are working on 3.3V but many liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for them are usually on 5V, because they are centered on Hitachi’s de facto standard LCD controller – the HD44780 chip. Presented here is a simple yet effective trick to convert the standard 5V type LCD to a 3.3V one! As… [Read More]
Mini Solar Garden/Street Light
Here’s another do it yourself project of an automatic mini solar garden/street light. This design belongs to the ‘renewable energy’ category, and is wired around a handful of inexpensive electronic parts. This nifty light circuit has two key components: a solar panel with a peak output voltage of about 6 V, and a Li-Ion battery… [Read More]
Active Heat sink Fan Controller
Active heat sink fan controller presented here is a very simple yet highly useful circuit for automatic control of cooling fans in active heat sink units. The circuit is realized using easy-to-use inexpensive parts and the design is centered around a standard 10K NTC thermistor. See the tried and tested circuit diagram of the 12V… [Read More]
Stand-alone PWM Power Driver
Do you remember the feeling of building your own power electronics projects with a nifty analog chip? Something like DC-AC power inverter based on the SG3525? The SG3525A is a pulse width modulator integrated circuit designed to offer improved performance and lowered external parts count when used in designing all types of switching power supplies…. [Read More]
TL431 & Li-Ion Battery
TL431 is a cheap ‘n’ cheerful yet reliable programmable precision shunt regulator chip available in 3-pin TO-92 package. This monolithic IC voltage reference operates as a low temperature coefficient zener which is programmable from Vref to 36 V with only two external resistors. In this article, you can find two simple circuits built around the… [Read More]
Using Real Time Clock (RTC) DS3231 with 8051 Microcontroller
You might be seeing a wall clock running with a 1.5V battery or a digital watch running with lithium or silver oxide. But, an interesting thing is, if you want to tick a clock in real time applications, the only solution is to use RTC (Real Time Clock) to get Date and Time. In the… [Read More]
Interfacing RTC DS3231 with 8051 Microcontroller
Have you ever thought how your computer and smart gadgets displays time? This is done using an RTC (Real Time Clock). This tutorial explains DS3231 RTC interfacing with 8051 using I2C. After the end of the tutorial, you will know how to write an embedded c code for DS3231 RTC using I2C protocol. To show… [Read More]
USB OTG Power Guard
As you may well know, you can borrow USB standard 5 volt dc supply from any smartphone equipped with USB on-the-go (USB OTG) port. USB OTG is a hardware (and software) standard that allows you to connect a device to your smartphone/tablet through the micro USB port. Almost anything that uses a USB connector can… [Read More]
Universal 2S Li-Ion/LiPo Charger Module
This is a simple and 100% safe universal linear charger module for 2S Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) and Lithium-Polymer (LiPo) batteries with the recommended constant-current/constant-voltage (CC/CV) charging algorithm. Initially charging takes place in the current mode and after reaching the target voltage the charging goes into voltage mode. At the moment the current is small, the battery… [Read More]
Little Rescue Light
During an unexpected blackout in particular, a simple light source can be a handy aid. With only two transistors, one photo resistor, and a few other components you can build an automatic emergency light. Here’s the circuit of my recently built, battery operated, little rescue light that lights up automatically in dark times! Circuit Diagram… [Read More]
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