Category Archives: AVR

Updates on projects with AVR microcontrollers. Anything AVR related.

LC7981/HD61830 Driver for EL Backlit Samsung LCD

I’ve found the time to post this LC7981/HD61830 driver (only graphics mode implemented) and some images of this Samsung LCD I’m using. I bought the LCD off of ebay ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=230070938443 ) and shortly after I wrote the driver for it from scratch. I finished this driver about a month and a half ago, but [...]
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USBasp Perf. Board Build

The computer I’m currently on (intel mac mini) doesn’t have a parallel port, so I can’t use the STK-200 style AVR-ISP to program/flash AVR chips. So, looking for the USB alternative, I stumbled across the USBasp. From the site, “USBasp is a USB in-circuit programmer for Atmel AVR controllers. It simply consists of an ATMega48 [...]
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AVR Servo Control

Well, my two days worth of figuring out AVR timers and PWM produced a very small and clean servo driver. Today my two 5g servos arrived and I hooked up one of them to the chip. I setup a test program and it worked out of the box. If you care to see it, just [...]
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Manchester Encoding/Decoding

Like I said in the previous post, the RF receiver will pick up junk data when the transmitter isn’t transmitting anything. This means that you need some sort of encoding or decoding method of the data to differentiate from junk in the air and actual data. This can be easily done through Manchester Encoding, which [...]
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