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- Making PCBs Using the Toner Transfer Method
- I've been making a bunch of breakout boards recently using the toner transfer method. I think I've finally nailed the procedure such that I get good, repeatable results. The following wiki article only explains how to do the transfer, generating the layout and etching is pretty straightforward (links are provided to some good guides). I've [...]
- (Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:49:42 -0500)
- Using an HD44780-based display with a TI MSP430 microcontroller
- ??I've recently been tinkering with TI's MSP430 line of 16bit microcontrollers thanks to the crazy-cheap MSP430 Launchpad development board. For less than $5 you get a USB programmer, an in-circuit debugger (that works with GDB!), and a USB to serial converter. There's pretty decent Linux support for these chips, much like with Atmel's AVRs you [...]
- (Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:04:01 -0400)
- Mazda?s Entertainment System, More Information Than You Require
- For the past couple weeks I've been working on adding an auxiliary input to my car's stock head unit. Mazda didn't make it easy but in the end I think I have a nice solution that works pretty well. What you see above is a little board that pretends to be a tape deck in order to [...]
- (Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:05:39 -0400)
- Simon Says
- In an effort to learn more about the capabilities of Atmel's range of "tiny" AVR microcontrollers I decided to build clone of the popular "Simon Says" game using an ATtiny45. The gist of the game is that it blinks out a pattern using the LEDs and you simply have to key in the same pattern [...]
- (Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:07:30 -0400)
- My Alarm Clock
- For the longest time I've been using an old CRT television as my alarm clock. It was very simple, there was a sub-menu in the TV's setup menu that allowed you to set a time for the television to turn on. This worked great for many years until I got rid of the TV. I [...]
- (Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:40:11 -0500)
