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UControl

uControl Board
Functionalities and details
Files
- Hardware
- Software
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uControl Board

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What can this board do? A lot of things. In fact, it’s designed to be as polyvalent as possible. Cheap hardware, nothing complex: you can easily hack it to do what you want. You can use one of the analog inputs to log the temperature on your PC. You can use one of the many digital I/O to connect to an I2C sensor or actuator. The power outputs are perfect to control a motor or a solenoid. You can use is with or without your PC as an automation board, a data logger, a controller of any kind.

Functionalities and details

Open source hardware, Cadsoft Eagle files available
Open source software, MPLAB project and C18 files available
PIC18F14k22 8-bit microcontroller
Onboard USB to UART
Up to 8 10-bits 0-5V analog inputs
Up to 16 0-5V digital inputs or outputs
Up to 8 power outputs (up to 50V 500mA each)
One 0-20V and one 0-50V 10-bits analog inputs
Temperature measurement
±5A Hall effect current measurement (ampmeter)
USB powered or powered with the onboard 5V voltage regulator
Only 30$ of parts (unity)
2 layers PCB
Only 50x65mm

As you can see, many descriptions include “up to”. This is not a way to over-sell the product but it’s the way it is: nothing is fixed on this design. The board will do what you program it to do, so you can have 4 analog inputs and 20 digital outputs if you want!

Files

Hardware

Schematic:

PCB:

All the design files (Eagle, Gerbers, BOM, etc.) are available here: <http://jfduval.ca/ftp/uControl.zip>

SVN Repository:

Browse uControl Hardware files

svn co https://openecosys.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openecosys/trunk/Hardware/uControl uControl

Software