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Kit review – Protostack ATmega32 Development Kit

John Boxall wrote 4 hours ago: Introduction For those of you prototyping with larger Atmel AVR microcontrollers such as the ATmega3 … more →

Tags: atmega32, Atmel, AVR, Competition, Education, Electronics, kit review, Protostack, Review

DIY Computer 2

elias0elf wrote 1 day ago: I have started my motherboard design using Circuit Lab a free browser based circuit editor. The curr … more →

Tags: Electronics, attiny, soldering

Ditch that boring mouse for a military-grade trackball24 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 6 days ago: The bad thing about this type of hack is that now [Tomek Dubrownik] needs to cut a hole in his desk … more →

Tags: peripherals hacks, 5400, atmega32u4, Encoder, military, Trackball

Building a WiFi enabled Nixie counter13 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 week ago: [Kevin Ballard] built this Nixie counter on the company dime. Tubes like this are getting more and m … more →

Tags: Electric Imp, NIXIE, socket, Wifi

Automated programming and testing jig built with Raspberry Pi5 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 week ago: [Doug Jackson] makes word clocks, and he must be doing quite a bit of business. We say that because … more →

Tags: raspberry-pi, avrdude, gpio, jig, Pogo pin, programmer, RPI, test

Wireless unread email counter tells you how busy you're not11 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 1 week ago: One of the marks of how busy you are – or how well your spam filters are set up – is how … more →

Tags: Network Hacks, wireless hack's, eMail, Gmail, UN

USB infrared receiver looks good sitting in your livingroom7 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 week ago: The problem with building your own electronics for the living room is that the final product may not … more →

Tags: 18f2553, Enclosure, flash light, IR Receiver, pic

An interview with Steve Laub: President and CEO of Atmel

Atmel Staff wrote 1 week ago: On May 27th, Steve Laub, President and CEO of Atmel, was interviewed by the Wall Street Transcript. … more →

Tags: Product News, Atmel, Battery, internet of things, Ozmo Devices, Steve Laub, Wall Street Transcript, Wifi

NAO Robot Low level architecture¶

insidehackers wrote 1 week ago: NAO Humanoid Robot Hardware Platform Body with 25 degrees of freedom (DOF) whose key elements are el … more →

Tags: Education, MicroController, robotics, Science

Benchmarking USB transfer speeds39 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 2 weeks ago: [Paul Stoffregen], creator of the Teensy series of microcontroller dev boards, noticed a lot of proj … more →

Tags: arduino hacks, Arm 2, Arduino, due, leaf, leaf labs, Leonardo, Serial, teensy

DIY farming with Arduino and Atmel1 comment

Atmel Staff wrote 2 weeks ago: Steve Spence – an organic aquaponic farmer living in South Carolina – uses pond water to … more →

Tags: Arduino, arduino compatible, Design Tips & Tricks, Makers movement, Atmel, Caleb Garling, Do It Yourself, MCU, microprocessors

Restarting my Arduino3 comments

Ryan Dahlke wrote 2 weeks ago: A few months ago I ordered an Arduino Uno Microcontroller from Amazon.  I wanted to practice program … more →

Tags: Arduino, projects, d printer, pRojects 2, Quadrotor, quadcopter, C#

Programming microcontrollers with a Raspi6 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 2 weeks ago: The advent of the Arduino brought the world of microcontrollers to hobbyists, students, and artist t … more →

Tags: raspberry-pi, Atmega, Atmel, attiny, avrdude, Raspberry Pi, SPI

Getting back to basics with Atmel and the Maker movement

Atmel Staff wrote 3 weeks ago: Upgrading or building a PC from scratch was certainly an adventure before the days of plug and play. … more →

Tags: Arduino, arduino compatible, Engineering perspectives, Makers movement, Atmel, Faraday, Hexbugs, makerbot industries, MCU

Temperature measurement using TMP102 on i2c bus

rasp314 wrote 3 weeks ago: TMP102 temperature sensor on breakout board. Here’s how to connect TMP102 sensor to Raspberry … more →

Tags: Raspberry Pi, raspbian, tmp102, thermometer, temperature sensor, Script

Culture eats strategy for breakfast

alfbogen wrote 3 weeks ago: So, after more then 20 years with creative engineering I have decided to start a blog. I do this bec … more →

Tags: All, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, Atmel, AVR, Creativity, Culture

Tamagotchi ROM dump and reverse engineering14 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 3 weeks ago: Often the true key to success is persistence and that holds true for this project which dumped the R … more →

Tags: classic hacks, toy hacks, chip on board, dump, General Plus, Reverse Engineering, Rom, SPI, Tamagotchi

Start

rasp314 wrote 4 weeks ago: I recently decided to start again with microcontrollers and programming, this time choosing a new pl … more →

Tags: Raspberry Pi, Linux, Operating System, raspbian, usb, sd card slot, 256mb ram

Wireless microcontroller/PC interface for $348 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 1 month ago: Sending data from a microcontroller to a PC usually requires some sort of serial connection, either … more →

Tags: radio hacks, wireless hack's, 433 mhz, MicroController, radio, wireless


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