This howto shows what you need to project a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) known also as a battery back-up.

MPLAB IDE has enjoyed many years of evolution cracking Microchip’s popular catalogue of micro controllers and digital signal controllers.

Mike is going to show you how to use your Nerdkit microcontroller kit to make music. For NerdKits with Atmel AVR ATtiny26L.

Skimming the latest Maxim Design Guide, interfaces section, I run into this title: "Add USB to Anything".

Fluorescent lamp inverter for efficient lighting systems. This Application Note explains how to drive an 8W fluorescent lamp from a 12V source.

Usually a traditional control system requires a regulated power supply (5V/3.3V), controlling the lighting loads via an opto-coupler. Another approach is interfacing the microcontroller directly to the main supply. Philips Semiconductors/NXP released several application notes for the latter approach, which was named as easytriac. It allows a low-end microcontroller to be embedded into the casing of each incandescent, CFL or LED lamps.

In the world we live today, the cost is considered one of the most important characteristics of a product. No wonder then, keeping production costs down is an important part of the manufacturing of a product. This concept has also been extended over the development costs. In many cases, especially for projects which pioneer a specific filed of electronics, the development costs represent a significant part of the final price of a product. Keeping them down would obviously make the managers happy and win a pat on the back for the engineers (stop hoping for a pay raise!)