MicroControllers

Microcontrollers and its Applications

Microcontroller allow us to create complicated devices. They allow us to add behaviours to the electronic devices or chips in a way never done before. The introduction of these small and very powerful 'pervasive computers' have saved many a big amounts of money.

A lot of space can be saved if the microcontollers are used instead of just the electronic components. This is becuase the microcontrollers can be programmed similar to a normal computer. And the work which the electronic components are going to do in order to produce a result will all be done in the CPU of the microcontrollers. There are, however, some differences such as the size of memory available and other factors like the cpu speed it provides.

Interesting applications can be created with just a little amount of knowledge of electronics and programming. I'll be discussing more on exactly what kind of knowledge is required in order to create small but powerful projects using the microcontrollers. This will be discussed in one of my next articles.

The following are only a few of the smaller projects which can be created:

Remote Controlled Hoover.
Bluetooth enabled household equipment (allows to turn devices on and off).
Speech enabled e-mail reader (wireless or wired).

Applications such as a remote controlled hoover can be created by.......

[more comming soon...]

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