50 PIC Microcontroller Projects

Book excerpt: This book contains 50 fun and exciting projects for PIC microcontrollers such as a laser alarm, USB teasing mouse, egg timer, youth repellent, sound switch, capacitive liquid level gauge, "finger in the water" sensor, guarding a room using a camera, mains light dimmer (110-240 volts), talking microcontroller and much more. You can use this book to build the projects for your own use. The clear explanations, schematics and even pictures of each project make this a fun activity. For each project the theory is discussed and why the project has been executed in that particular way. Several different techniques are discussed such as relay, alternating current control including mains, I2C, SPI, RS232, USB, pulse width modulation, rotary encoder, interrupts, infrared, analogue-digital conversion (and the other way around), 7-segment display and even CAN bus.