Vv

VincenzoV tiny page

Some ideas for electronic hobby


In these pages I publish some electronic hobby designs. The attempt is exclusively didactic and the material is thought for hobbyist wishes to go beyond the assembly of electronic "kit". Naturally also the student or the professional will be able to find interesting things...

My name is Vincenzo Villa and I teach electronic technologies in ITCS Greppi. VincenzoV does not mean Vincenzo fifth, as someone has said to me, but is the nickname I used for years in the italian news group it.hobby.elettronica. In order to write me an email, please read this page.

This web site is mainly addressed to italian spoken people but some selected pages has been translated in English. Please see the Italian version of these pages for in-deep information about circuits and software... And sorry for my poor English.

elettronica hobby electronics

In this page I have collected in scattered order some circuits I have realized in the past. For any design you will find the description, the schematic, the pcb and the sources code.

Step driver
A simple circuit to connect two unipolar step motor or up to eight generic DC load to a personal computer. You can connect up to six of this circuit to a single parallel port
Microstep driver
This circuit is realized in order to drive through the parallel port of the PC up to six bipolar step motor. Main characteristic is the ability to increase the number of the steps, using micro-step technique
Mini-datalogger
This circuit connect to a personal computer a 12 bit / 8 channels ADC powered from the parallel port. It is enclosed software for DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/200/XP and Linux
VVIO
This input/output library can facilitate the interface of self-made circuits to a personal computer. You can use it with DOS, Windows95/98/NT/200/XP, Linux and also other OS