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Moore’s law isn’t strictly holding anymore, but it is still true that most computing systems are at least trending towards lower cost over time, if not also slightly smaller size. …read more Continue reading Pushing Crates in 8-bit Color
The declining costs of single-board computers has made serious computing power available for even the most trivial of tasks. It’s easy enough to slap a Raspberry Pi onto almost anything …read more Continue reading Audio Playback Toy For DSP Adventures
The Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI) is Microchip’s proprietary interface for programming and on-chip debugging, and has become the standard on AVR MCUs after Microchip’s purchase of Atmel. Being …read more Continue reading Turning a Microchip MPLAB Snap Into a UDPI AVR Programmer
Showing images on a TFT or OLED display with a small AVR microcontroller can be a challenge as it requires significant storage space. One solution is to compress the images, …read more Continue reading Squeezing GIFs Into Even Tighter Spaces
One generally reads a data sheet in one of two ways. The first is to take every spec at face value, figuring that the engineers have taken everything into account …read more Continue reading To Turn an ATtiny817 into a 150MHz Counter, First Throw Out the Spec Sheet
Writing an operating system for a computing platform is one of those non-trivial tasks few people actually need to do, regardless of whether it’s for a small microcontroller or a …read more Continue reading KittyOS: Writing A Toy OS For The ATmega168 From Scratch
The Julia programming language is a horrible fit for a no-frills microcontroller like the ATMega328p that lies within the classic Arduino, but that didn’t stop [Sukera] from trying, and succeeding. …read more Continue reading Blinking an Arduino LED, in Julia
[Daumemo] likes experimenting with DIY electronics, and like many people, eventually ran across an AVR microcontroller with a Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI). One option is of course to …read more Continue reading This DIY UPDI Programmer is Nice and Cheap
Biohacking projects are not new to Hackaday and it’s certainly a genre that really piques our interest. Our latest biohacking device comes courtesy of [Manivannan] who brings his flavor of …read more Continue reading A DIY Biometric Device with Some Security Considerations
Today you might choose run Windows, Linux, MacOS or some other OS on your computer. Back in the 1980s however, you generally had little choice: a certain home computer came …read more Continue reading CRISS CP/M Provides Modern Hardware for a Classic OS