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Month: September 2023

002 - MakeCode MicroBit: Brickcell DHT11

George Bantique September 30, 2023 No Comments

The DHT11 is a low-cost, digital temperature and humidity sensor. It is commonly used in electronics projects and applications to measure temperature and relative humidity. The sensor consists of a capacitive humidity sensor and a thermistor to measure temperature. It provides digital output, making it relatively easy to interface with microcontrollers like the micro:bit. Temperature […]


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001 - MakeCode MicroBit: Brickcell LCD I2C

George Bantique September 28, 2023 No Comments

Brickcell Development Kit comes with an LCD module which is a 16×2 LCD module with an I2C interface. It has an alphanumeric dot matrix display screen, an HD44780 display controller developed by Hitachi, and a PCF8574T I2C to GPIO expansion IC which converts parallel IO to I2C. The LCD module can be access through 0x20 […]


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