Circuit Lake

Smoke-O-Tron is PID controller for electric smoker temperature developed based on PICAXE microcontroller. The controller can handle the 1500W heater to within about 3 degrees F. It will measure temperature in the space and switching the heater on and off at a given speed.

This project shows you how to connect inexpensive calipers, micrometers and height gauges to PC through serial RS-232 interface and see the result using PC software. Its main part consists of minimal PIC to RS-232 interface, +5V/-1.5V power from serial port, and 1.5V to 5V logic level conversion. “The connector on the measuring instrument will [...]

The Laser Position Sensor (LPS) module is an optical sensor that measures and provides the two-dimensional coordinates of visible red laser light (630-694nm) shined onto its surface. This Freescale MC9S08JM8CLC MCU-based project developed by Joe Grand based on Roger Johnson and Chris Lentz’s 2-D Optical Position Sensor.

This energy monitoring transmitter, known as emonTx, is an Atmega328-based small wireless energy monitoring node. It also fully compatible with Arduino IDE. EmonTx is designed to take inputs from multiple CT sensors, optically from a pulse-output utility meter and from multiple one-wire temperature sensors. The design is based on the JeeNodeV5 by Jean-Claude Wippler and [...]