March 12, 2010, 9:47 pm
After going through some of the tutorials on Arduino’s site, I really started to appreciate what a powerful platform Arduino really is. A lot of seemingly complex software/hardware interactions can be made quite easy with relatively few components and little coding. As one of my first Arduino based projects, I built a simple power inverter driven by Arduino. Continue reading ‘A Power Inverter with Arduino Pulse Source’ »
February 20, 2010, 9:31 pm
Using PC’s parallel port is a convenient way to control a stepper motor. For unipolar stepper motors, up to two motors can be controlled with the 8bit data line. Continue reading ‘A Parallel Port Stepper Motor Driver With Discrete Components’ »
February 4, 2010, 9:48 pm
Using DTR (data terminal ready) and RTS (request to send) pins of a PC serial port (RS-232) without actually using the serial data pins, we can interface at least two relay devices with a computer. Windmeadow Labs has an excellent article on how to achieve this using a bipolar transistor (BJT). Here I will show you a similar relay control circuit built using an opto-isolator and a MOSFET. Continue reading ‘An Isolated MOSFET Serial Port Relay Controller’ »
January 6, 2010, 7:46 pm
A touch sensitive on/off switch can be made with a single MOSFET. The following schematics illustrate such a switch using only a power MOSFET (IRFZ22). Continue reading ‘The Simplest MOSFET On/Off Switch’ »