An interactive Lab Manual for the Microcontrollers class that I developed in Flash.
It features all the topics necessary to start making projects with PIC microcontrollers.
"KokruoBoy" - Mobile console made with a PIC microcontroller programmed in C, soldered from scratch
just before presenting the project
Support circuits for the microcontroller, inputs, oscillator circuit, power source...
Handling a SD Memory card with a PIC Microcontroller - Reading and Writing FAT32 sectors on a 2Gb SD memory card with a PIC microcontroller.
Serial RS-232 Communication between 2 Microcontrollers - One PIC reads a character from a PS/2 keyboard and sends it to another PIC via serial RS232 communication.
RoboBeast - Programmed in NI Labview to me controlled via bluetooth, and receive RF video signal and ultrasonic radar signals. It also had an autonomous mode to evade obstacles and recognize an area. The claws for fliping over other robots where not installed yet.
RoboBeast - Part of the code in Labview
Robobeast Monitoring Panel - Either on manual or autonomous mode, it could monitor obstacle radar signals (green graph there), battery power level, bluetooth link status, video signal and mode indicator.
Microprocessors 1 class - Me teaching the engineering students how to programs in C, to make graphic user interfaces with microcontrollers.
Interactive Circuits Laboratory guide, to learn how to use the NI ELVIS device. Developed in Flash when I worked as a Mechatronics Lab Officer for UNITEC
My Student's Project: Animated LED cube - A 8x8x8 LED cube that could display animations that moved to the rythm of music. Had to use multiplexors and buffers to control 512 digital outputs with just 16 pins
PSP Repairs - changing the broken joystick of my PSP
My Student's homework - My student's homework, programming and making a graphic LCD clock with a PIC microcontroller from scratch
Working at Cerveceria Hondurena S.A. - That's the paletizer robot stacking up Coca Colas in pallets.
Motoman robot at Valencia, Spain
Working at Cerveceria Hondurena S.A. - That's the paletizer robot stacking up Coca Colas in pallets. I made a new FB for the PLC and modified the SCADA in order to palletize the new 1.25 Liter bottle format.
Wireless communication between Microcontrollers - One PIC gets the temperature reading from a sensor and transmits it via wireless Zigbee protocol IEEE 802.15.4, to another PIC. The receptor PIC displays the temperature on a LCD.
Wireless IEEE 802.15.4 PIC communication Demo - Transmitting a tempreature reading from one PIC microcontroller to another via wireless link to another PIC. Full-Duplex is also easily implemented from here on.
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My Mechatronics projects as Student and Professor
Portable gaming consoles are cool pieces of engineering... why not try making one?!
Microcontrollers are one on my favorite fields, and teaching the Microcontrollers 1 and 2 courses at UNITEC was a memorable experience. Domotic wireless sensors, pocket calculators, LED, Cube equalizers were part of the menu.
