DIY IR Proximity Detector

January 25, 2010 by admin · 6 Comments
Filed under: electronics 

Hi friends…

This sensor module called proximity detector, widely used in robotics and other electronic proximity detection purposes. It is very simple to make and use.There is no effect of ambient light on the operation of sensor as a 38KHZ modulated IR pulses are used.

555 Timer is used to generate frequency of 38 KHz and very familiar IR detector module TSOP 1738 is used to detect the 38KHz IR pulses.

Circuit Diagram – Transmitter

38Khzastable

Circuit Diagram Receiver -

tsop_rx

Suggested Assembly -

sam

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Enabling AVR UART Rx

November 10, 2009 by admin · 2 Comments
Filed under: Microcontrollers 

hi…

In prevoius post i explained the UART transmit function with code and schematic. Now this post is about receiving datra from outside world (e.g. a PC having serial port).

The schematic will remain the same, for convenience i am putting it here also.

In previous post to enable Transmitter we enabled the transmitter by setting the TXEN bit in UCSRB. Now we must enable RXEN in UCSRB i.e. UCSRB= (1<<RXEN).

Now here to demonstrate the working of UART receiver i made a kind of Interactive system. Here we will program Mega8 to receive certain characters via UART and display them to a 16×2 LCD connected to PORTB of ATmega8.

So whwtever you type on PC keyboard with terminal utility open the same get displayed on the LCD Module.

LCD connections are as follows…

RS  –   PORTB_0

RW –   PORTB_1

EN  –   PORTB_2

D4  –   PORTB_4

D5  –   PORTB_5

D6  –   PORTB_6

D7  –   PORTB_7

How to interface a LCD to AVR???

/*******************************************************************

*Program functions in such a way that when you press ESC LCD display get clear

*when you press ENTER key on Keyboard Cursor goes to second line

*Auther - devesh@electroons.com

********************************************************************/

#include<avr/io.h>
#include<util/delay.h>
#include<compat/deprecated.h>
#include<lcd.h>
unsigned char UART_rx()
{
while(!(UCSRA & (1<<RXC)));
return UDR;
}
int main(void)
{

unsigned char c;

//SET DATA DIRECTION REGISTER

//SET 1 for OUTPUT PORT

//SET 0 FOR INPUT PORT

DDRD=0x00;    // PORTD as input as using as receiver
DDRB=0xFF;    // PORTB output as LCD is connected to it

PORTD=0xFF;
PORTB=0x00;
UCSRA=0;
UCSRB=(1<<RXEN)|(1<<TXEN);  // Both receiver and transmitter enable
UCSRC=1<<URSEL | 1<<UCSZ1 | 1<<UCSZ0;  // 8 data bit, a stop, none parity
UBRRH=0;
UBRRL=25; // for 2400 baud at 1MHz
lcd_init();
lcd_cmd(0x01);
lcd_cmd(0x80);
lcd_puts("LCD Working");
while(1)
{
c=UART_rx();
if(c==0x1b)   // if ESC pressed clear the screen
{
lcd_cmd(0x01);
lcd_cmd(0x80);
lcd_cmd(0x10);
}
if(c==0x0d) // carrige return
{
lcd_cmd(0xc0);
lcd_cmd(0x10);
}
lcd_data(c);
}

return 0;

}

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