The ZIFduino, for all intents and purposes, is an Arduino with a ZIF socket. It’s geared toward those that want to do prototyping on the platform, but then move the ATMega chip to a stand-alone environment. The pin layouts are exactly the same, so it should be compatible with most shields designed for the Arduino. […]
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Not long ago the Atmel company came out with a great tool for use with the AVR line of microcontrollers called the AVR Dragon. This small USB device provides professionals and hobbyists alike the ability to use: In System Programming (ISP), JTAG, Debug Wire, and High Voltage Programming. Unfortunately the device itself doesn’t include all
This is a fun speaker timer I made for some upcoming conferences. It uses a 4-digit charlieplexed LED (pseudo 7-segment) display and is driven by a AVR ATMega328 or an Arduino. It allows a default time to be set, can be paused, and will put out 5 Volts on several IO lines when 10, 5,
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You might have noticed the Slaveflash I built with an Attiny 24, the instructable can be found here: Slaveflash-trigger-for-digital-with-Attiny24 After building the first prototype I collected all my old flashes I got over the years and had four more slaveflash-triggers to built. I already figured out an PCB-Layout for the SOIC-version of the attiny 24.
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In this Instructable, find out how to control LCD’s with a ATmega8 and Bascom. Demo You will need: – Breadboard – Wires – ATmega8 – Programmer – Bascom AVR (There is also a demo version for Free) – 10k resistor – 100k resistor – 10k variable resistor – 7805 Voltage regulator – 100 µF 16V
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This is the last one of my ‘Things that make life easier’ series, I published in the last few days. It’s very simple, but most of the time the simple things are the most helpful. I always used the big 10 pin jack for programming my AVRs because my programmer also had the 10pin jack.
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We recently built a LED spinning top with message display. Its an improved version of a similar top published by Elektor in their December 2008 issue. The Elektor top can be spun only in one direction. The synchronization required to print message on the LEDs arranged along the radius of the top is achieved by
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Play a prank on your friends (enemies?) by hiding a high-pitched beeper which sounds off at random time intervals. This instructable uses minimal parts. All that is required is: battery microcontroller speaker Why don’t I just use a 555 timer chip? You certainly could. I like this method because: 1. The ability to beep at
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video Open Source Temperature Controller- Appliance Heat Exchanger Here’s a heat exchanger demo using the open source temperature controller. Full heat exchanger available here Intelligent controller, schematics, and code available here The open source temperature controller allows you the flexibility to control DC appliances based on the temperature of two thermistor inputs. The processor is
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English version available at the bottom Se enseñara paso a paso como instalar los controladores (drivers) necesarios para el correcto funcionamiento del programador USBasp para microcontroladores AVR. Primero, mencionaremos algunas consideraciones para evitar fallos por usos indebidos del programador. También se mencionará el protocolo y pines que debe tener en cuenta para poder programar su
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