Introduction to microcontrollers

Introduction to Microcontrollers The purpose of this blog post is to give readers an overview of working with Microcontrollers and successfully implementing them in projects. There are numerous information on Microcontrollers available out there but very few give a big picture of the implication of building a project around them from beginning to end for people who have never used them before. What are Microcontrollers? This is the first questions that came to my mind when I first started to get involved with Microcontrollers, what is a Microcontroller actually? In simple terms a Microcontroller is an electronic device which is used to provide control signals to one or more targets devices. The control signals can be used to do simple task such as switch on a led, a relay or it can be a more complicated form of control signal such as a serial protocol signal used to send data through a USB port for instance. In order to send the control signals the Microcontroller ha...