Thursday, December 3, 2009

PIC Dev Board (16F877A) Updated...

I had designed a PIC16F877A micro-controller development board which has in-built programming capability.

This board will be a good one for young engineers to experiment with PIC micro-controller.

Actually it has two schematics. One for development board and the other for parallel port programming. The PIC can be programmed by just plugging a data bus on the programmer to the development board.

The PIC16F877A micro-controller need not be removed from the development board to program the controller.

The development board consists of MAX232, so that the serial communication is enabled on the board. It also consists of headers for all port pins.


Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Enable Task Manager and Registry Editor

There is a problem in the computer when virus is attacked...
The Task Manager (Window coming when Alt+Ctrl+Del is pressed), Registry Editor (regedit.exe) will be disabled. When we try to open, error comes that "The Task Manager is disabled by your Administrator". For removing that, use TweakNow PowerPack software...

Download the software here...

Monday, September 28, 2009

Driver for BSNL Wireless Modem

For the customers who are using BSNL Wireless Modem ZTE EV-DO AC8700 800M, I am giving the download link for the driver software...

Click Here to Download...

Thursday, September 24, 2009

New software release "BINSAD WARNING"

"Binsad Warning" is a software used to give battery low warning for laptops. When the battery level becomes low, the software will pop-up in front with sound indication. The user can enable or disable the software from the tray icon.
The warning message stops when the battery charger is plugged or ESC key is pressed. To re-enable the software, right click at the tray icon.

Requirements - .net framework 2.0
The software is only 1MB approx... Just try it out...

Download the software here...

Download .net framework 2.0 here...

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Wireless Accelerometer based Mouse

I had created a wireless mouse. But the mouse does not require any surface for detecting motion. We can place it in hand (like a ring) and mouse pointer can be controlled by our hand motion...

The Project was done at

Fagmann Technologies PVT Ltd.


Monday, August 24, 2009

ZigBee Wireless Technology

The Wireless technology that I had used in my Wireless Mouse using Accelerometer is ZigBee. ZigBee is easy to configure and it can communicate with no: of nodes at a time...

You can see purchase details of ZigBee modules from here...

The connection diagram for ZigBee modules is shown below...

Serial cable replacement for the serial cable replacement we have to configure some parameters on the XBee's we are going to use, these parameters are:

- serial port baud rate - ATBD
- network identifier - ATID
- node identifier - ATMY
- destination node identifier - ATDL

Example:

- An XBee module 1 - network ID 3332 - speed 1200 - address 0 - destination 1

- An XBee module 2 - network ID 3332 - speed 1200 - address 1 - destination 0


The command sequence to send would be:

In the XBee module 1
Command ............. Response
+++ .......................... Ok
ATID ........................ 3332
ATBD ....................... 3 (this means 9600 baud rate)
ATBD0 ..................... OK (so I change it to 1200)
ATMY0 ..................... OK
ATDL1 ...................... OK
ATWR ...................... OK (to write the configuration to memory)
ATCN


In the XBee module 2
Command ............. Response
+++ ........................... Ok
ATID ......................... 3332
ATBD ......................... 3 (this means 9600 baud rate)
ATBD0 ....................... OK (so I change it to 1200)
ATMY1 ....................... OK
ATDL0 ........................ OK
ATWR ........................ OK (to write the configuration to memory)
ATCN


Now you have both the XBee modules ready to communicate wirelessly (a wireless serial port).

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Software for BSNL Broadband Modem Reboot

I had created a software that automatically reboot the broadband modem at the given time and date...

Download the software here...