An Introduction to Microcontrollers

Table of Contents:

0:00 Introduction
0:38 What is it?
1:55 Where do you find them?
3:00 History
6:03 Microcontrollers vs Microprocessors
13:40 Basic Principles of Operation
15:29 Programming
18:23 Analog to Digital Converter
23:39 ADC Example- Digital Thermometer
29:34 Digital to Analog Converter
31:30 Microcontroller Applications
34:38 Packages
38:38 How to get started

Thanks a lot!

An Introduction to Microcontrollers by Tim Laux is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

[Cynical_Engineer]

Doing an assignment on instrumentation using microcontrollers. This covered pretty much everything I wanted to know, thank you.

[pt-au-hg]

We need more instructors like yourself, include the math, theory and a bit of casual explanation, and you have a nice tutorial series, thanks again. :)

[ballisticjazz]

Great job on this tutorial. I love the way you broke everything down into layman's terms. You made it super easy to understand all of the concepts that you discussed. Many thanks!!!

[harshvardhansharma]

11 years later and this video still is amazing. Can't say much but big companies refer to this video for freshers to get started on microcontrollers.

[Jax]

You are extremely thorough and I am completely greatful that you exist in a world so interested in quick paths to great complexities. Thank you!

[xuzhao]

Just spent a whole morning watching your videos! Thank you so much for making them❤ Your explanations are solid and clear with a touch of humor and the high quality visuals are great for understanding some tricky concepts. Inside my course at university I kind of passively follows the content, but your videos are really engaging and reminds me of why I wanted to learn engineering - it's fun!

[zalmaisape]

Believe me I cant express it in words!!!
The best presentation I have seen till now, very much informative, lots of knowledge covered in in short : without missing a single part every sentence was informative
THANK YOU so much, waiting for next lecture

[brianbaker]

I was looking everywhere online for info on how to "make a pcb do what I want it to." But all I got were hits on "how to create/design a board." It was so frustrating! Then I came across the word "microcontroller" in a forum. Shortly after, I found this video. Bam! It is everything I needed to get started in the right direction! Thank you so much and a job well done on your first video.

[atraps]

I'm a backend dev looking to self-teach some embedded systems engineering and your videos are really good introductory material for me. Apart from the EM course I had in sem2 of my first year, I don't have any practical knowledge about electronics beyond that. All we learnt there was plugging in numbers into the right equations. So thank you for providing this free and valuable knowledge. Of course, I also took basic computer architecture, logic design and OS courses but they were mostly theoretical and we never got our hands dirty actually making those circuits.

[ynnebbenny]

I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation. You have enlightened me greatly on this subject. In 50 and just getting into electronics. (mid life crisis for wimps) I love my Arduino board. The potential with micro controllers is amazing. Thanks.

[vayneshade]

This was a huge help! I'm in a Systems Dynamics and Control class and we are programming a microcontroller for our first lab but we have never even been taught what a microcontroller is, this has been very helpful :)

[Bob-zgzf]

This video is the clearest one on microcontroller on youtube. I love SSW.

[rohitsen]

Dude, both your slide and demonstration were great, and thanks to your slow teaching, I got to learn easily

[jrgs]

This was a really well put together video. Very informative without being too boring or dry.

[coledowrick]

from the bottom up no stone unturned!!! i already knew much of what was covered but you presented the information and a much more systematic and organized fashion making it more easily usable! and most definitely drilled home the 'if this, then that" cause/effect relationship with micro chips well done

[allaryyan]

Thank you for this video, our professor did not explain properly what these things are and we were supposed to start working with them.
Your effort is deeply appreciated : )

[younglovenkolonzi]

Two years later I see a kindo video I been looking for regarding microcontrollers.. Thanks I loved it.

[abughouth]

Dear Sir.... I am sure 1000s of people would badly need such precious gift...
On behalf of all I would like to thank you so very much for your patience and care....
Isam

[phana]

Thanks Tim! I'm new to electronics and want to learn more. Your video has helped me learn heaps. Thanks again for a fantastic video!

[atsul.]

Your introduction to Microcontrollers was very informative. There was a lot I learnt from this tutorial as a beginner. God bless. looking forward to other related videos from you. Nice work and keep up the good work.