ibsimed1 have developed a single I/O-Pin 3×7-Segment Display board. It only needs one microcontroller I/O pin and power source.

The board itself is very simple but idea is great – it uses three serial to paralel converters 74HC164 which activates LED segments. As it is said – display board uses only one I/O pin which also serves as CLK source for serial to paralel converters (from 500kHz to 8MHz). Synchronisation is done by connecting microcontroller I/O pin to CLK through RC Low-pass Filter. There is an AVR code example which can be run from any AVR microcontroller. In this Example PB0 is the general I/O-Pin, but this can be easily changed. Project can be downloaded Here.

DiSEqC-Switch is widely used in individual satellite systems to connect up to 16 satellites to one receiver using cascading method. This switch uses other cheap DiSEqC-Switches ver1.0 with four satelite heads each or simply connects directly to satelite heads and this way acts as simple switch.

Schematic diagram is based upon standard DiSEqC-schematic solutions except connections between the Attiny13 and the output switches. This solution allows to reduce number of transistors. PCB is available in P-CAD format. Decoding algorithm of incoming DiSEqC messages are explained here. Also you can check out Testing Device for DiSEqC-Switches that is uses 1.0 or 11 protocols .

Want to please your friends or family, then make Christmas gift by yourself. This is nice looking blue LED clock project which can be made without significant efforts.

Clock looks really nice when decorated with smoked gray acrylic. It has two push buttons for selecting time and alarm, while another two are for setting hours and minutes. The project heart is Atmega835 microcontroller and PCF8563P RTC module. Clock source is written by using WinAVR compiler.

This mod is based on PIC18F2550 and WG24064A 240×61 graphical LCD with T6963 controller.

Download eagle schematics and firmware files to flash. To feel full power of this mod also download Winamp Open Source LCD plugin. This mod works only under Win2k and Win XP.