Don’t get me wrong, I like make… Hah! Yeah, right! make has its place, no doubt, but small microcontroller projects not so much. In my projects I like to just start coding, pulling in ex… more →
Omega's Electronicswrote 8 months ago: A commercial potentiostat can cost several thousand dollars, but the CheapStat is an open source pro … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Don’t get me wrong, I like make… Hah! Yeah, right! make has its place, no doubt, but sm … more →
wrote 9 months ago: [Victor's] girlfriend works at a museum and enlisted his expertise in designing an interactive detec … more →
wrote 10 months ago: A few years back Atmel announced a new line of chips, the XMega series. We see the name bouncing aro … more →
wrote 11 months ago: Last December (just in time for the “perfect storm” of energy credits…) we had a n … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a nice hands-on overview of the Xprotolab, a development board based around the AVR ATx … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Hello readers Today we examine a tiny and fascinating piece of test equipment from Gabotronics … more →
wrote 1 year ago: So I’ve been perfecting the method I use in my current project to sync up the two clocks. … more →
wrote 1 year ago: [Ben Kokes] threw together a hardware package to capture data from a football. In the center of a Ne … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The product I’m working on right now has a load of very arcane requirements, forcing me to del … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Wow, it’s been altogether too long since I’ve posted. Fortunately, and this is importan … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a shot of my desk from yesterday: The red boards on the right are SparkFun FT232RL ad … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Earlier I posted a spreadsheet I created that calculated the BSEL and BSCALE for the Xmega’s f … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been struggling recently with the extremely small JST SH connectors, which are 1.0mm crim … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In Part 1 I explained some of the high-level differences between the older ATmega and the newer Xmeg … more →
wrote 1 year ago: To start out this series on getting started with Atmel’s new Xmega chips, I first need to expl … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The default baud rate on the Bluetooth adapters I’m using to program and debug the current gen … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve kindof neglected my blog for the past week, so I thought I’d post an update of what … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Some fairly quick software work and I’ve got a baseline for DMX transmission from the Xmega DM … more →