Why Stk500 and USB? Until the beginning of this year a simple parallel port programmer was the only good programmer as it could be used for any device. All device dependent information is stored in the programmer software on your computer. The problem is however that the parallel port is slowly disappearing. Apple does not […]
AvrUsb500 — an open source Atmel AVR Programmer using ATmega8 Read More »
Introduction. Nowadays, USB is the most popular connection between PC and peripherals such as AVR programmers, printers, scanners etc. For that reason I had to modify my old serial AVR In-System-Programmer (ISP) to work with USB connection. You can say, “use a USB to Serial adaptor to connect your AVR ISP with your PC”. Yes, that could
USB AVR in-system Programmer using ATtiny2313 Read More »
LCDs are often used in microcontroller projects. Most used are these green character displays with two or more rows to display menus, status or debug messages. With mass production of mobile phones, color LCDs get that cheap, that they can be used as replacement. Some time ago I ordered a Nokia 6100 LCD including breakout board from
Flickr images on a Nokia LCD using ATmega48 Read More »
Working with embedded electronics, you will eventually ends up with some sensor between your hands, here I’ll show how to make a graph out of it! This project involves a light sensor, a tiny 8-pin AVR USB key with the V-USB stack, a GNU/Linux system and rrdtool. Sensors If your are working with some digital sensor
USB Sensors with ATtiny Microcontrollers Read More »
As you might be able to tell from recent posts, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with an Arduino. I’ve now got at least one project that I’d like to make a little more permanent, rather than it just being a bunch of components on a breadboard. The easiest option would probably be to
Honey I Shrunk The Arduino using ATmega328p Read More »
Essentially another tutorial involving controlling DC motors. In this post I’m going to first alter a robot arm I had built previously from a beginners kit so that it can be controlled from Arduino. Then I’m going to write a series of posts on different ways to control the robot arm using Processing and other things. You should be able to
Arduino – Modifying a Robot Arm using ATmega328 Read More »
I spent part of an afternoon developing a hardware RSS reader (most of my time was spent on the python side of things). It’s pretty simple and uses an AVR microcontroller connected to a computer via a serial cable. Hardware I am using the Dragon Rider 500 as a development board. This provides all of the hardware
RSS Reader using ATmega8 microcontroller Read More »
Introduction: A good while back, I made the 1-key-keyboard project. Ever since it has always been in the back of my mind that the ATTiny microcontroller, which I used in this project, had still 3 IO ports which were unused. Only recently I’ve found the time to expand my old project in the most obvious way
4-key keyboard using ATtiny85 Read More »
The purpose of this project was to create a simple, portable device that would periodically read sensors and then store the sensor data so it could be retrieved later. The result is the HexiLogger, “hexi” because it can support up to six different sensor inputs and “logger” because it will store the input data on
HexiLogger, an Arduino based data logger using ATmega328 Read More »
Driving a shift register using an AVR chip’s built-in hardware is really quite easy. Most of their offerings have an SPI module, or Serial Peripheral Interface. A shift register is exactly that, a peripheral device that communicates via a serial line. All we need to do is hook up our connections and use a few
How to drive 595 shift registers with ATmega168 Read More »
