45-Day PIC Microcontroller Bootcamp

Learn to increase font size in the programming environment by updating to Microsoft Blue 6.6.3 and adjusting the editor font settings to a larger size for better readability.

Learn how to implement decision making with if statements and switch statements in C, including conditions, cases, default, and the importance of break to avoid fall-through.

Wrap up this course by thanking learners for watching and inviting them to explore related electronics, microcontroller plc, Raspberry Pi, LabVIEW, and micro C and C programming courses on Udemy.

Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 on Windows, select the C# desktop development workload, and create a console application with File New Project.

Explore C# operators, including arithmetic, relational, logical, bitwise, and assignment operators, plus miscellaneous operators such as size of, typeof, address of, and the conditional expression.

Learn to implement while and do while loops in C sharp, understand their syntax and the difference between them, and see how test expressions determine execution.

Install MikroC Pro for PIC programming, write C code in the MikroC interface, compile and run, and generate hex files for simulation or burning to a PIC microcontroller.

Update to Microsoft Blue version 6.6.3 and open the options dialog in the editor to increase font size, setting 16–18 for readability.

Blink an led for one second using a while loop on the first pin of port a with a 1000 ms delay in a pic microcontroller flasher circuit indefinitely.

Learn to control a LED with a push button on a PIC16F84A, lighting the LED for 10 seconds when pressed, using RB0 input and RB1 output with sinking vs sourcing.

Drive a seven-segment display with a BCD counter from a microcontroller, compare common anode and common cathode wiring, and use a BCD decoder to count 0–9.

Explore the mid-range PIC microcontroller architecture, focusing on ports and registers, the CPU, ALU operations, and the role of pull-ups and data direction settings.

Explore pic to pic and pic to pc serial communication, with master and slave roles and two programs for sender and receiver, using dip switches to drive leds and rs-232.

Learn how analog signals from a potentiometer are converted to digital values using a microcontroller's ADC, then displayed on port b and port c with 8- and 10-bit resolution considerations.

Explore dot matrix displays, their internal structure, and multiplexing techniques to drive a five by seven matrix using PIC16F84A, including interfacing, resistors, and displaying numbers and letters.

Demonstrate a simple serial communication cycle by linking a transmitter to a receiver via a computer/virtual terminal, using a baud rate of 9600 to send and echo back text.

Explore the fundamentals of electronics, including voltage, current, resistance, and essential components—resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, and transistors—plus circuit diagrams and Ohm's law.

Explore voltage, current, and resistance, and how AC and DC, and different circuit types, behave, using a water pipe analogy to visualize electrons, pressure, and friction.

Identify the three basic circuit types: open, closed, and short, and explain how broken insulation or miswiring creates open or short circuits with simple schematic examples.

Measure voltage using a voltmeter across the source, distinguishing dc and ac with proper ranges and probes. Emphasize safety, polarity, scale selection, and reading accuracy from millivolts to rms voltages.

Learn to measure current by inserting the meter in circuit so that current flows through it. Understand amperes, DC measurement, meter ranges, fuses, probes, and the need for circuit resistance.

Explore circuit diagrams as roadmaps showing current from a voltage source through resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, and ICs. Grasp grounding types and variable components.

Meet the educational engineering team, a veteran microcontroller and electronics education group led by Ashraf since 2007, sharing bootcamp-style, step-by-step real-world knowledge across Arduino PIC, Raspberry Pi, and IoT.

Explore how interrupts enable the PIC16F84A to respond to events without polling, covering external interrupt on RB0, timer0 overflow, port B changes, and EEPROM write interrupts.

Learn how the eeprom data write interrupt lets the microcontroller continue executing during a ten-millisecond eeprom write, using background processing and a completion signal to resume operations.

Explore the Port B 4–7 status change interrupt on the PIC16F48; any RB4–RB7 input change sets RBIF. Initialize as inputs, select edge, clear RBIF, enable global interrupts and RBIE.

Examine timer zero, an eight-bit register that increments each instruction cycle until overflow. Configure it as a timer or counter with a software-readable register, internal or external clock, and prescaler.

Explore the disadvantages of I2C, including its protocol complexity, higher power from open-drain two-line bus, slowest-device bottlenecks, bus hangs, and short-range limitations.

Learn how to implement Arduino to Arduino I2C communication using the wire library, with a master sending data to a slave via unique addresses and begin transmission and end transmission.

Create a standard PIC project and initialize I2C using the library. Write I2C data to an EEPROM by sending the slave address, memory location, and data, with a Proteus simulation.

Learn what the serial peripheral interface is, a synchronous, full-duplex communication between a master and a slave that requires a clock and is common in Arduino projects.

Demonstrates SPI communication between two Arduino boards, master and slave, with LEDs and push buttons connected via pins 10–13. Uses fritzing and breadboards to illustrate the circuit design.

Learn the USB interface for the PIC18F4550 microcontroller, covering basic USB concepts, host PC communication, USB port power to five volts and 100 mA, and upcoming hardware and software requirements.

Discover the advantages of USB communication: power to devices, plug-and-play setup, hub support, and high-speed data transfer from USB 1.0 to USB 3.0, with up to 127 devices.

Explore usb wiring, pinouts, and color coding, including data plus and data minus, vcc and ground, and standard a to b cables for pic microcontroller sockets.

Create a USB descriptor file in Micro C Pro for a PIC microcontroller using C, detailing VID, PID, 64-byte buffer size, vendor name, product name, and bus power.

Create a MikroC usb descriptor for a pic18f4550 project, set default vendor and product IDs, set 64-byte buffer, enable USB self power, and save descriptor.c to the desktop usb folder.

Discover USB RAM in PIC microcontrollers: a dedicated memory area from 0x500 to 0x7FF for USB read and write buffers, with device-specific address adjustments using the PIC18 AF4550 example.

Establish a USB HID connection with a PIC 18F4550 and test data transfer by echoing received bytes back to the host, using descriptors, buffers, and a starter Micro C project.

Learn to turn leds on and off via USB interfacing using a PIC microcontroller, addressing port D pins D0–D3 and using a simple input command scheme.

Configure mikroC for pic18f4550 with a 20 MHz crystal in hs pll, set prescaler to 5 and multiplier to 24, then compile and load the hex via ql programmer.

Understand graphical user interfaces, enabling interaction with devices via icons and visuals, and learn how to design and code GUI elements to control a PIC microcontroller using mouse or keyboard.

Master Proteus virtual USB installation for PIC microcontroller development within the 45-day PIC microcontroller bootcamp.

Link Protos simulation with the Visual Studio GUI to control a PIC microcontroller via serial communication using bridged com ports 20 and 21, load hex, and test LED signals.

Learn the hardware and software setup for PIC microcontroller projects using mikroc, proto, and Altium Designer, plus resistors, capacitors, LEDs, diodes, buzzer, voltage regulator 77805, and programmer.

Learn what a pic microcontroller is, its cpu, memory, and input/output pins, and how the pic16 mid-range family enables interfacing with lcd displays.

Explain how a liquid crystal display works, focusing on the two by sixteen lcd and its pinout including data, instruction, power, contrast, vss, vcc, rs, rw, and e.

Master lcd initialization in PIC microcontrollers using the MikroC Pro lcd library, including defining data pins d4–d7, rs and enable, and integrating lcd initialize in main.

Learn to move text on an LCD to the left by using the LCD shift left command, adding a 100 ms delay, and controlling shifts with for and while loops.

Explore two electronic door lock designs with a microcontroller and ISIS simulation, using serial and keypad input, a solenoid relay, and EEPROM-stored passwords with security alerts for wrong attempts.

Join the educational engineering team as they share step-by-step, practical microcontroller projects and in-depth teaching on Arduino Pic microcontrollers and related topics.

Learn how a DTMF decoder IC 8870 converts keypad tones into a four-bit binary output to remotely control greenhouse devices via a mobile phone without internet.

Learn to identify a 3.5 mm audio jack’s tip, ring, and sleeve, select a ground and left or right channel, and avoid the microphone for a DTMF project.