Saturday, 25 July 2015

CIKU from Cytron

Hello there…

First of all, I would like to thank Cytron Technologies again for the gift. I found out this contest from their Facebook page around October last year (oops about one-year ago)





Of course, I won’t miss this opportunity as I can grab the brand new product for free. Next, I have uploaded a simple product of mine to take part in the contest. 





In a quick moment, I approached my Facebook friends to like my post. Thanks god that I’ve made it! My post successfully grabs the attention of the organizer. Soon after, they posted my beloved product via mail directly to my address. Unboxing pictures...











Upon receiving my precious present, I start surfing the Cytron Technologies website to check its operational mode. Datasheet of CIKU is just downloaded into my lappy. I made a short conclusion of CIKU:

1. It uses PIC18F4550 from Microchip as microcontroller in main board which resembles Arduino UNO but not exactly the same. The images below are downloaded from Cytron Technologies main website.







2. It is powered up by using a USB miniB cable where a normal PC can switch it on.

3. Operates with 5 V dc output and requires input voltage of 7 V to 12 V dc source.

4. The structure developed from embedded system of the main microcontroller which contains 20 i/o pins. In contrast to Arduino Uno,it contains only two PWM pins.





5. Nonetheless, it has six analog input channels which allows us to stay away from the digital world. Hahaha…

6. In its internal architecture, where we can’t sense is 32kb flash memory, 2Kbytes, 256 bytes of EEPROM and clock speed of 20MHz.




7. It can be program by using MPLAB XC8 compiler with the related header of Arduino’s library.

Get ready to program the board and revise the basic language of C !

I have accomplished one of my project with it and presented to my lecturer as a part of my coursework. Sharing it soon ! Nevertheless, I will make good use of CIKU in my coming projects.

Ciao…


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