Need design advice for a simple electronics project (microcontroller + wires + transistors)

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I need some design advice for my first electronics project:

The goal is to control the power supply of the indidual bays of a hard drive backblane.

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The MCU should control 15 identical switches.

Communication between the MCU and the host PC should happen via USB.

USB should also be be used for the power supply.

The whole design should be optimized for minimum power consumption.

Min. 2 extra output pins of the MCU should kept unused to allow for future extensions.

Open questions:

- What's a suitable MCU?

Maybe a Digispark (ATtiny85) with two cascaded 74HC595 shift registers to achieve the

required number of output pins?

Or maybe another ATtiny with more native output pins like the ATtiny4313?

Are there any suitable minimalistic, Digispark-like ATtiny development boards with more

output pins and USB support?

- What's a suitable transistor?

I'd like to buy and assemble the parts by myself.

I'd also like to do the programming.

Electrical Engineering Electronics Microcontroller PCB Layout

Project ID: #17191964

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RegulViktor

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seshupower

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bijan01in

Hi I am interested to your project. I am familiar with electronics, microcontroller as well as PCB design by Eagle. Thanks.

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urbito

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mohameedtareq

Hello Sir Atmega328 will be a great mcu for this use with out any shift registers it'll do the job easy and will be easy at programming for you we can build our usb communication protocol from pc to our atmega More

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ansarias21

I have 2+years of exeperiance as an embedded developer.I have done many projects using different controllers like 8051/PIC16/PIC18/Arduino/ARM LPC2148 etc. If you will assign me this task i can do on 10 Euro/hr or a More

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tomfb

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janxtr

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lohith

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I am an Electrical Engineer with experience in digital electronics. There are a variety of MCU that are miniature that you can utilise for your project such as aduino uno, Raspberry pi other development boards are sti More

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Celeritous

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Joshua6502

Dear, You can nail the project with a few useful advice. The smaller MCU with the two 74HC595 works well. The switching transistor should be PNP BJT or P-type MOSFET like IRF9540. NPN BJT as shown in your picture is no More

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