Who I am

admin    General Posting     Sylvain Bissonnette

About me:

I am your host, Sylvain Bissonnette. I am French Canadian (Québécois) and live in Boucherville, QC.

My passion for electronics systems started when I was 8 years. My dad also worked in electronics and he's been my mentor.

What I like the most in electronic is working with MCU and developing embedded and Windows software for my systems.

Currently, I am working for Hydro-Québec (the Electric Company). I am part of a dynamic team working in research and development.

My main duties consist in designing and developing device drivers for various projects.

I love my work and have been doing it for more than 20 years.

My other activities are: Scuba diving, underwater photography, travel, wood working and of course, drinking beer!

Cheers,

Sylvain Bissonnette

Please Read Me,

admin    Lastes News     AVR

Hi Friends

     English is not my native language,  I'm french speaking, so that's why there is a lot of gramatical error in my blog & code.  I will be please to correct those error if you point it to me.

    I also want to clarify, that all I give is on my blog, do not ask me for PCB or any other files or "Please help me" without doing anything before writing to me. I think I am generous please do not exaggerate.

Sylvain Bissonnette

MegaLoad U | Beta tester needed

admin    All projects     AVR Bootloader

I just finish a new version of MegaLoad,  It's name is MegaLoad U  for Universal.  You will be able to use old and future devices without upgrading MegaLoad U.  It not compatible with the old bootloader files.  You need the bootloader that came with MegaLoad U.  It's a first release so please be cool with me!  So I'm waiting for your beta testing…

New bootloader C and S file release on the 20/07/10  Please comment

DownLoad

MegaLoad U

BootLoader

PCB shop

admin    Work Bench Tools     board, circuit, PCB, Printed

History

Here is my PCB shop,  If you do just a little bit of electronics you need this. Home made PCB is a kind of an art.  You can archive without any problem track as small as 10 mils without any trace cut or short.  I've used MG Chemical products with great success. One thing to know is that there is a lots of possibility of problem due to many factor.

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My Lab

admin    Work Bench Tools     AVR, Function Generator, Osciloscope, Power Supply

History

Here is my lab,  it could give you some idea to build yours, with lots of year and money you can do it !

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Bench Power Supply 0-25v @ 0-5amp

admin    Work Bench Tools     Amp, AVR, PowerSupply, Volt

History

This project is like the one that all of you must have done in electronics.  I took the idea from Circuit Cellar. The original power supply provides an output of 2.5-15V at 500mA. This circuit will provide 0-25V at 0 to 5A. You will see there is a lot of modification to achieve this.

This is my second version of this power supply, the first one was made with mosfet who need a higher voltage on the gate I had to use a higher input voltage and because of this there was a lot of heat generated for nothing.  This version work with transistor and it's much more better. 

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RGB Laser Projector

admin    All projects, Gadjet     AVR, driver, Laser, projector, rgb

History

This project is my second one with laser, I had learn many thing from my first green laser projector. Now I had decide to make a professional laser projector with 3 laser of 3 different color, Red, Green and Blue. And with galvos who have better spec.  I had buy a 30kpps galvo, a 300mw red, 80mw green and 250mw blue. 

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MegaLoad

admin    All projects, Software     AVR, AVR Bootloader, Bootloader, MegaLoad

Please try the new MegaLoadU Version

History

MegaLoad is a Windows based boot loader for all Atmel ATMega microcontrollers that support the Bootloader function.  MegaLoad is a solution for everybody who wants fast loading (~8k in 3 seconds) and easy software upgrade via MCU RS232 port.

MegaLoad is written in Visual C# and the source code is available for 100$usd that can be pay via paypal at bibi@microsyl.com

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Weather Station

admin    All projects, Sensor     Anemometer, AVR, Digital, Humidity, Lightning Detector, MS5534, Rain Fall Sensor, Sensor, SHT75, Temperature, Tipping Bucket

History

    This project is one of many others I had made to control my house with rules, web interface, logger and many more. This one is a weather station that reports almost anything about the external environment. I bought mechanical part of the wind sensor at http://www.aag.com.mx/indexaag.html I had to remove all the electronics that came with it and replace them with my own. 

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AVR Code Debuger

admin    All projects, Work Bench Tools     AVR, Debugger, Terminal

History

    The fact is, 10 years ago this project could have been completed. It will be a useful tool to help you debug code. The challenge was to make a debugger that does not require any MCU resources to be used from the MCU, allowing the debugger to run integrated with the code being debugged.

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