Category Archives: PIC-on-The-Go

USB Side-Project

Sometimes I get a little bit inspired by things on the internet. The internet isn’t all bad.   Here are some projects, pictures, or schematics that I like: http://old.bennahill.com/tsunami/ http://www.piclist.com/techref/io/usb/pcbmaleconn.htm http://vonkonow.com/wordpress/2012/03/usbserial-pcb/ http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/datasheets/Prototyping/PowerCell-v13.pdf (That’s mostly a reference for me, for later)     Pretty regularly, I have need of a cheap microcontroller that does one thing only,… Read More: USB Side-Project »

Travel-PIC

With the huge popularity of Arduino in the past few years, everything that can be advertised “Arduino-compatible” is being commoditized to such a huge degree that it can be hard to find price-competitive components that do not have that distinctive Arduino pin layout.     An example is this TFT touchscreen LCD. It’s like, 6 bucks, which… Read More: Travel-PIC »