Week 6

Study Flow of the project:

In this project, it contains both parts of hardware module and software module. For the software module, Visual Basics Studio software will be used to display voltage . Visual Basics Studio contains GUI part and programming part. On GUI part, it will show the voltage value produced and for the programming part it contains the program that's designed to run this process in Visual Basics Studio software. Besides, the programming also need in PIC microcontroller for controlling that circuit. This process includes the design program, compile the program and burn that program into PIC 16F877A . In hardware part, there is contain 4 important part, its solar panel, voltage measurement sensor, voltage regulator, PIC16F877A and max232. The solar panel will produce voltage output and voltage measurement sensor use to read the voltage output from the solar panel and send a signal output  to PIC16F877A. To send the data from PIC16F877A to visual basic software max 232 will use as an interface to connect the PIC board to a visual basic inside the computer. Visual Basic  software use to display the data from the circuit board and use to save the data every 5 minutes then store the data to Microsoft Excel to produce the result graph

Block diagram