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Vol: 57(71) No: 4 / December 2012 Designing and Fabrication of a Smart Museum Electronic Guide based on Low Cost 8-Bit Micro-Controller Majed Rostamian School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, e-mail: m_rostamian@ieee.org Maryam Parsa School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, e-mail: mparsa@uottawa.ca Voicu Groza School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, e-mail: groza@site.uottawa.ca Keywords: AVR Micro-controller, C Programming, Modular Programming and Museum User Guide Abstract With the advent of modern technology and novel methods of attracting people to museums, foremost sign of history of a country, different methods arise to guide people inside the museums in a best way possible to facilitate information exchange between individuals and museum guiders. That is from the expert leaders to the labeling a tag beside each object, from the electronic portable devices to the stationary kiosks located in different parts of the museum. In this paper, we took an overview on all different existing similar devices and mentioned the advantages and disadvantages of each, then we have proposed our new designed and fabricated portable electronic device, using AVR micro-controller, in order to facilitate transfer of information to the visitors of museums. The device is called smart electronic guide for museums and has the capability of providing the visitors of a museum with pictorial, scripted, and vocal information regarding each object in the museum. Low cost, easy access, promotable program, and being user-friendly in providing information are the main features of our device. All the details of hardware and software programming of this new fabricated device are provided in this paper for any future reference. 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