Discover control panels applications

Discover control panels applications

To get started with embedded development, we need two main things which are the development board and the IDE (Integrated Development Environment). A microcontroller development board is a printed circuit board (PCB) with circuits and hardware designed to facilitate experimentation with some of the features of microcontroller boards. Development boards are integrated with processor, memory, chipset, chipset, integrated peripherals such as LCD, Keypad, USB, serial port, ADC, RTC, Motor Driver ICs, SD card slot, Ethernet, etc. with debugging features. This will save us tampering with the connections to the jumper wires and the board.

Specifications for microcontroller boards are bus type, processor type, memory, number of ports, port type, and operating system. These are used to evaluate software for embedded devices such as various consoles, home appliances, robots, Point of Sale (PoS) terminals, kiosks and information devices. Here, we will discuss the trait between the various development boards around the world. Each of these has its own advantages as well as some drawbacks, and some development platforms are more prominent on certain projects than others.

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Microcontroller development board is also known as single board microcontroller. Nowadays, developing a single board microcontroller development kit is very simple and cheap. Many open source software (IDEs) are available to develop microcontrollers for real-time application development. We discuss here different microcontroller boards as they are available in the market which include

DIY Based Microcontroller Boards

DIY (Do It Yourself) Microcontroller Boards can be made at home by yourself for that, you need all the individual electronic and electrical components such as the microcontroller (Atmel, ARM, MSP, etc.), the component base, and external peripherals like RTC, serial ports, LCD module, keyboard, touch panel etc. Now all these components must be carefully soldered onto the PCB. After the hardware setup is done, we have to choose a suitable IDE for programming the microcontroller to develop the required application.

DIY board based on microcontroller

Microcontroller Panel Applications

Here, we introduce some DIY applications based on the 8051 family. The 8051 microcontroller is a general purpose controller, which is used to develop basic level applications. Such as data acquisition systems, automatic light intensity control system, industrial temperature control systems, etc.

Arduino UNO

Arduino is the most popular open source electronic prototyping platform for creating interactive electronic applications. The Arduino UNO board contains everything needed to support the microcontroller. The Arduino UNO board is very familiar to both beginners and experts. It should be considered as one of the first microcontroller-based development boards. Arduino UNO R3 is the simplest and most powerful prototyping environment based on the ATmega328P microcontroller.

Control panels Features

Microcontroller: ATmega328P

32 KB of flash memory

Operating voltage: 5V

Input voltage (recommended): 7-12V

Input voltage (limit): 6-20V

Digital I/O pins: 14 (provides 6 PWM output pins)

Analog input pins: 6

DC current per I/O port: 40mA

DC for 3.3V pin: 50mA.

The reason for its popularity is that it has an open source IDE for graphics development, with simple syntax based on the "C" language, the code is easy to learn. Apart from Arduino UNO, we have different types of Arduino boards which are shown below

Arduino boards

One of the best features of the Arduino UNO, it has analog I/O pins. It uses atmega328 and is very easy to program with predefined libraries and functions in ArduinoIDE and it is open source. Here, some applications are developed with ARDUINO UNO

Arduino-based RFID Sensor Access

Arduino-based industrial instrumentation control system by decoding two-tone, multi-frequency signals over a GSM network

Arduino Underground Cable Fault Detection

Home automation based on Arduino

Raspberry Pi . development board

A raspberry pi development board is as small as a credit card computer. The raspberry pi can be easily connected to your monitor, computer or TV. It also uses a standard keyboard and mouse. Even non-technical users rely on it to configure their digital media systems and surveillance cameras. Raspberry Pi 3 is definitely the most powerful and affordable computing platform.The recently launched Raspberry Pi 3 is included

Processor: 1.2GHz, 64-bit Quad-core ARMv8 CPU

 802.11n . Wireless LAN

Bluetooth 4.1

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

1 GB RAM

4 USB ports

40 pins GPIO

Full HDMI port

Built-in 3.5mm audio jack and composite video

Camera Interface (CSI)

Display Interface (DSI)

micro memory card slot

videoCore IV 3D graphics core

Raspberry Pi . development board

Raspberry Pi . development board

Software ability

The Raspberry Pi runs on a custom Debian Linux platform called Raspbian to install different packages including Node.js, Java, LAMP stack, Python and more.

Raspberry Pi development board applications

By using a raspberry pi board, we can develop a mini computer. It is very useful for students. We can launch wed server, because it can support all programming languages ​​like HTML and JAVA. It can also handle WordPress, so you can manage your blogs/website. Raspberry board-based robots are a huge amount of applications in the automation industries. It is very easy to develop IOT applications using raspberry pi.

Black BeagleBone Development Board

The BeagleBone Black is one of the most popular open source computers. Now it comes with built-in wireless network capability. Leveraging a partnership with Octavo Systems and built at CadSoft Eagle, the BeagleBone Black Wireless is the easiest to use and credit card-size IoT Linux PC modification available. BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, community-supported development platform for embedded app developers. The boot time to install Linux takes 10 seconds and start development in less than 5 minutes with just one USB cable.

Black BeagleBone Development Board

Features

Processor: AM335x 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8

512MB DDR3 RAM

2 GB on-board eMMC flash storage

NEON . Floating Point Accelerator

2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers

3DGraphics Accelerator

Connection

USB client for power and communication

USB host and Ethernet adapter

HDMI and 2 x 46-pin connectors

Software compatibility

linux

Android

Ubuntu

Cloud9 IDE at Node.jsw Library / Bone Script

AdaFruit Plant Development Council

The main goal of the Adafruit Flora Development Board is to develop wearable electronic devices. It's a disc shape, sewable, Arduino compatible microcontroller designed to develop amazing wearable projects. The latest Adafruit Flora version comes with a micro USB flashlight and Neopixel LEDs for easy programming and testing.

AdaFruit Plant Development Council

Features

Atmega32u4 microcontroller, which powers the Arduino Mega and Leonardo

2 JST polarized battery on board

Simulation using the Arduino IDE

14 tap pads for fixing and electrical connections

regulator on board

AdaFruit Board Apps

Electromagnetic field detection dress, it is very important to detect EMF signals to save ourselves from radiation. A very essential wearable thermometer for patients.

From the above information, finally, we can conclude that different types of microcontroller boards are used to build different applications such as electronic projects, electronic home appliances, etc. We hope that you have a better understanding of this concept. Moreover, in case you have any doubts regarding this concept, please provide your valuable suggestions by commenting in the comments section below. Here is a question for you, what is the difference between an Arduino board and an Arduino Nano board?