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[Trent M. Wyatt]’s CPUVolt library provides a fast way to measure voltage using no external components, and no I/O pin. It only applies to certain microcontrollers, but he provides example …read more Continue reading Arduino Measures Remaining Battery Power With Zero Components, No I/O Pin
Integrated circuits, chipsets, memory modules, and all kinds of other transistor-based technology continues to get smaller, cheaper, and more energy efficient as time moves on. Not only are the components …read more Continue reading A Mega-Tiny Arduino
If a hacker guardian angel exists, then we’re sure he or she was definitely AWOL for six long years from [Aaron Eiche]’s life as he worked on perfecting and making …read more Continue reading Fail of The Week: Epic 312 Weeks Of Fixing A Broken Project
Classic video games might look primitive by today’s standards, but the addictive gameplay of Breakout or Pac-Man remains fun no matter what decade you were born in. Keeping the relevant …read more Continue reading Minimalist Homebrew Hardware Recreates Arcade Classics
Arduinos have been the microcontroller platform of choice for nearly two decades now, essentially abstracting away a lot of the setup and lower-level functions of small microcontrollers in favor of …read more Continue reading The Inner Machinations of the Arduino are an Enigma
We often take our “SoftwareSerial” libraries for granted, and don’t investigate what goes on under the hood — until they fail us, at least. Would you like to learn how …read more Continue reading Animate Arcane Protocols With Interrupt-Backed Bitbanging
Do you ever have to ensure that an exact amount of time passes between two tasks in your microcontroller code? Do you know what’s the difference between precision and accuracy? …read more Continue reading Time And Accuracy in Las ATMegas
We have certainly all had our moments with solder paste. Some of us hate it; it’s sticky and gooey, and it gets everywhere. That is, unless you have a solder …read more Continue reading Solder Paste Dispenser Without Giant Compressor
[Dilshan] built a dedicated I2C tester which allows for I2C bus control over USB using simple commands such as init, read, write, etc. The Linux kernel has had I2C driver …read more Continue reading DIY I2C Tester
[SM6VFZ] designed, built and tested a switched-mode DC-DC boost regulator using the core independent peripherals (CIP) of an ATtiny214 micro-controller as a proof of concept, and it looks pretty promising!
A Buck, Boost, or Buck-Boost switching regulator topology usually consists of a diode, a switching element (MOSFET) and an energy …read more
Continue reading AVR Microcontroller Doubles Up as a Switching Regulator