Showing posts with label Microcontroller EFM8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microcontroller EFM8. Show all posts

Saturday, December 8, 2018

ESP8266 library for EFM8 microcontrollers

ESP8266 is a low-cost serial to Wi-Fi module that is very popular among electronics hobbyists. It can be used to connect a microcontroller to internet over Wi-Fi. The things you can do with it are numerous. You could monitor and log various sensor data like atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity together with geo locations on websites like thingspeak.com. Or you could retrieve information from internet such as weather, number of subscribers on YouTube, send tweets with your microcontroller, send email notification if your plants get dry, etc.


Friday, March 2, 2018

Cheap and powerful 50 cents microcontroller | EFM8 Family

This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to setup and program an EFM8BB10F8G-A microcontroller or any other EFM8 Busy Bee microcontroller family from Silicon Labs. It is assumed that the reader knows the C programming language and basics about microcontrollers.
EFM8 Busy Bee microcontroller family from Silicon Labs
Why would you want to learn to use another microcontroller when there are many tutorials and libraries on popular MCU's such as AVR and PIC? Well, because they are much more cheaper but performant nonetheless - on Farnell you can buy them for less than 50 cents - and also are pre-programed with a bootloader making easy to program them using any USB to serial converter.  Compare that to Attiny13A which is around the same price but with half the pin count, less speed and peripherals. Just see the features bellow.