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General Programming Hardware Microcontroller Software Development 

Emulating EEPROM using flash memory on dsPIC33EP512MC502

January 17, 2023March 28, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment dspic, eeprom, flash, mplab, pickit4, xc16

One thing I don’t like about the dsPICEE3P (and the PIC32MX) lines is that these devices do not have EEPROM

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time difference
General Programming Hardware Microcontroller Software Development 

Software Real Time Clock (RTC) for the dsPIC33EP512MC502

March 15, 2021May 9, 2021 ToughDev 0 Comment dspic, rtc

Although the dsPIC33EP512MC502 does not have an integrated Real Time Clock (RTC) for time keeping, this can easily be overcome by configuring

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Microchip DS70211 wrong FVCO formula
Hardware Microcontroller 

16-bit stereo audio DAC on dsPIC33FJ128GP802

February 19, 2021May 13, 2021 ToughDev 0 Comment dac, dspic

The dsPIC33FJ128GP802 is among the few devices in the dsPIC33F family that have an integrated 16-bit stereo DAC module. The DAC can be

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dsPIC CTMU
Hardware Microcontroller 

Measuring temperature using the dsPIC Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU)

January 8, 2021March 28, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment ctmu, dht11, dspic

In an attempt to save an I/O pin originally used for the DHT11 to measure ambient temperature in one of my

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mplab-2Bmemory-2Bmodel
Hardware Microcontroller Speech Useful Projects 

English text to speech on a PIC microcontroller

September 22, 2014July 5, 2019 ToughDev 5 Comments

I have always been a fan of the TTS256 – a tiny but great English text-to-speech IC based on a

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Board-2BFront
Hardware Microcontroller Speech Useful Projects 

LD3320 Chinese Speech Recognition and MP3 Player Module

August 27, 2014April 17, 2020 ToughDev 17 Comments

UPDATED (March 2018): A better English version of the datasheet can be found here.   After my previous success in getting

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Hardware Microcontroller Speech 

SYN6288 Chinese Speech Synthesis Module

July 18, 2014October 6, 2016 ToughDev 5 Comments

When searching eBay for a text to speech IC equivalent to the TTS256, I came across the SYN6288, a cheap

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Hardware Microcontroller 

Using the Real Time Clock and Calendar (RTCC) module on a PIC24

March 27, 2014October 6, 2016 ToughDev 5 Comments

This article shares the source code which I have written to set and get the current time using the Real

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General Programming Hardware LCD Modules Microcontroller Useful Projects 

Using picojpeg library on a PIC with ILI9341 320×240 LCD module

March 11, 2014October 6, 2016 ToughDev 12 Comments

I purchased a 320×240 LCD module which supports 320×240 resolution and comes with an SD card slot from eBay: This

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gps-module
GPS Hardware Microcontroller 

Interfacing the NEO-6M GPS module to a PIC

February 24, 2014October 6, 2016 ToughDev 8 Comments

I recently purchased a NEO-6M GPS module made by u-blox from eBay. The module is manufactured by u-blox and a

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IMG_0289
Hardware Logic Analyzer Microcontroller Oscilloscope Reverse-engineer Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

Capturing data from a Tektronix 1230 logic analyzer by emulating a parallel port printer

February 2, 2014April 2, 2023 ToughDev 22 Comments

UPDATE: Refer to my latest article for a full review of the Tektronix 1230 logic analyzer. As a fan of

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IMG_0241
Hardware LCD Modules Microcontroller SPI 

Interfacing HY28A LCD module with ILI9320 controller and XPT2046 resistive touch panel to PIC microcontroller

January 9, 2014October 6, 2016 ToughDev 7 Comments

This is a cheap 320×240 2.8″ TFT LCD module that uses the ILI9320 controller for the display and the XPT2046

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