Hardware components: Atmel ATTiny85 × 1 Everything ESP ESP8266 ESP-01 × 1 Arduino Nano R3 × 1 STORY My goal is to make my window AC units more functional. Currently they use an on-board thermostat to turn on when the room gets above a certain temperature (‘duh). I feel like there is a lot […]
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Hardware components: Atmel ATTiny85 × 1 SparkFun Tiny AVR Programmer × 1 Software apps and online services: Arduino IDE STORY Introduction The Atmel tinyAVR MCU’s (ATtiny) are a series of chips optimized for applications requiring performance and/or power efficiency in a small package. These have internal clocks that runs at 8 MHz. They can also be clocked
Easily run your ATtiny at 16MHz, without an external clock, from the Arduino IDE Continue Reading
Bare bones: The ATtiny85 on its Own The ATtiny is a small, inexpensive chip that can replace the Arduino in a project you have prototyped. This helps make the project smaller and more permanent, as well as freeing up the Arduino for more fun! The chip comes in a few different types – ones with
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Oh, Hai Hai (‘hi’) is an integration point for several stand alone smart home technologies. Hai runs on the Raspberry Pi and can be adapted to optimize electricity consumption (lighting/HVAC) and water usage (irrigation/rain collection) in a number of ways. Hai was originally envisioned for any Pi running Raspbian OS, but is also being ported
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Persistence of vision is an optical illusion, it works on a simple phenomenon how our day to day television works. MY first pov was six months before with arduino uno and with motor. However it is best to have a small and portable device that can be carried anywhere and image can be seen without
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I have been collecting data from Raleigh’s trails and parks for the last couple years. My primary platform has been a custom Arduino board I developed for low-cost (hey, these things may get damaged or stolen) and long battery life. I wanted a connected sensor to provide current data and, after looking at various technologies,
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More VideoBlasting So why didn’t the TV out library reach any higher resolution than 160×100? The answer is simple. They did not use any hardware on chip to push the pixels out. If you use the SPI to push the pixel you will gain an immediate 1:1 in pixel speed The SPI push out data
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Introduction This is my first Arduino project. My work was inspired by several maker projects that created Persistence of Vision Displays [2,3,4]. Persistence of vision (POV) refers to the optical illusion whereby multiple discrete images blend into a single image in the human mind and believed to be the explanation for motion perception in cinema and animated films [1]. The projects
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Today, we are going to build a circuit to program an ATtiny85 with our Arduino. Supplies We are going to need the following: Some jumper wires 1 x 10 micro farad capacitor The ATtiny85 Chip A breadboard An Arduino For Extra visual’s (that are not really required) I’m going to add: 3 LED’s 1 x
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I like cheap electronics for playing. Cheap is good for budget conscious hobbyists and China is delivering lots of toys for playing – one being the inexpensive “mono” OLED displays. The single-color displays often come in a dual-color implementation where the top row of pixels are one color and the remaining majority of the lower
OLED on the Cheap! Continue Reading
