Enhanced USB ICSP Programmer for PIC Developer

In this tutorial, a project on creating a wireless RFID reader will be implemented. The model of RFID reader used here is RFID reader 232N (RFID-IDR-232N) which actually can be connected to PC directly through RS232 using the DB9 (Male) of its cable for sending tag’s IDs scanned to computer.Somehow, the establishment of a wireless RFID reader enable the RFID reader to be place a t a further distance from the PC since the cable length constraint is eliminated but still can sends the tag’s IDs scanned to PC through the wireless link.

In this project, we are going to do a simple LEDs blinking using the LEDs on SK40C. In here, we are using both of the LEDs and blink it like a police car. Besides on learning electronic parts, you will also learn about some coding in C using HI-TECH C in MPLAB.

Nowadays, ICSP (In Circuit Serial Programmer) is starting to gain popularity and Cytron also encourage users to use ICSP instead of using universal programmer (where user needs to unplug the microcontroller) or bootloader. This article explains how to program the PIC MCU by using ICSP.

Universal Asynchronous Receive/Transmit (UART) has becoming a popular item on sending and receiving data in the fast way. In here, we are going to experience on how to use UC00A to communicate with our computer/PC and SK40C.

This project uses SK28A to show the RGB LED. The RGB LED is a special type of LED which can emit three coloured lights, which are the Red, Green and Blue, hence the RGB acronym. When one of these colours mixed together it will give you another new colour. By using the microcontroller’s PWM channels to drive the LED, you can control the intensity of each colour which can give you many shades of different colours.

To deal with computer keyboard, we have to know what kind of signal did keyboard giving when you press a key. For this project, we are going to interface the Arduino Duemilanove to computer through USB.