Student Chronicles

Ok. We we’re given (again) a project for finals in our Digital Microcontrollers class. It’s a digital clock which has an alarm feature. The time of the clock could be set and it should be in the 12-hour format. Aside from that, there should be five user-programmable alarm slots that can be set. The alarm should use a buzzer. Only one PIC16F84A chip should be used in the project. The circuit should either be mounted and soldered in a universal PCB or in a custom-designed printed circuit board.

I volunteered to do the project for our group since my other groupmates are going to be busy on our other projects. Programming is one of my fortes. What makes Digital Microcontroller class more exciting is we do not program applications for software but for hardwares instead. We embed the compiled application we have created in a PIC16F84a Microchip. It’s a 16-bit microcontroller readily available in our ’suking tindahan’.

This afternoon, I started working on the circuit design. I used Eagle Software to make the circuit’s schematic diagram and circuit board layout. Here’s how it looks,

I already have the printed copy of the design.  The next thing to do is transfer the design on the presynsethized printed circuit board which fortunately I still have some left.  The software part is not yet done.  I’ll keep you updated then.

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