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Since we are in the midst of featuring a wide assortment of ATtiny hacks, [Kenneth] wrote in to share a project he has been developing over the last few months, the SerialCouple. Most all development platforms have the ability to function as an analog to digital converter, but you don’t always need a full-featured board when all you require is serial output for your computer. With his … [Read more...]
Yup. We have all been there. You throw together a really elaborate Arduino project that only really needs a couple pins, far fewer than the Arduino's native microcontrollers have to offer. Well fear not, [Thatcher] has solved just this problem by adding some ATTtiny cores to the Arduino IDE. His blog details the process from grabbing the MIT developed core files and loading them up in your Arduino … [Read more...]
It is time once again to announce a new theme. This time around, we have chosen to highlight projects built around the ATtiny series of processors. These are 6 to 32 pin AVR processors that run up to 16 MHz and have anywhere from 512 Bytes of flash with 32 Bytes of RAM to 16K of Flash with 512 bytes of RAM. We're guessing that this will be a pretty popular theme since so many people are using … [Read more...]
[Fernando] is working on creating a game at home, with live scoring displayed on a large LCD TV. He’s keeping mum as to what the game entails, but he was more than happy to spill the details on how he planned to use the television as a wireless scoreboard. The writeup is the first part in what will likely be a substantial series of progress reports, covering how he used an ATtiny45 to drive … [Read more...]
Instructables user [Jan] likes to keep close tabs on his computer’s memory usage, but wanted something more interesting to look at than the standard resource manager. He preferred to have an external display available that would show his computer’s status with a quick glance, and thus this system monitor was born. His status panel contains a trio of constantly updated LED bars that show his … [Read more...]
[Scott] found the iCufflinks from Adafruit Industries pretty interesting, but he thought that the stated run time of 24 hours was a bit short. He figured he could improve the product’s power consumption at least a little bit, to improve the overall battery life. From their schematics, he placed an order for parts and built two identical iCufflink mock-ups side by side - one running their code … [Read more...]
Kids love games of exclusion. This usually manifests itself in games of 'keep away,' having someone 'catch cooties,' or the ever-popular 'No Brian club.' [Rob] wrote in to tell us about the digital cootie detector he built. The cootie detector operates on galvanic skin response. It's actually very similar to an E-Meter, although instead of Thetans this device measures something that actually … [Read more...]
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