Recently I brought some low-power Mini-ITX motherboards; a Gigabyte GA-N3050N-D3H and a Biostar N3050NH. These boards take SO-DIMM DDR3 RAM, the sort found in laptops.
Aug 13 2015
MCP2221 HID Library
This is a library for interfacing with the HID features of the MCP2221 USB to UART and I2C/SMBus serial converter from Microchip and the newer MCP2221A. The converter includes 4 GPIO pins, 3x 10-bit ADCs, 1x 5-bit DAC and more.Microchip does provide a library for interfacing with the chip, however it is supplied as proprietary …
Sep 25 2013
DIY Digital Wristwatch
Introduction The main incentive behind this project was to see how much I could cram, in terms of both hardware and software, into a wristwatch-like device that is no larger than the display itself. An OLED display was chosen for being only 1.5mm thick and not requiring a backlight (each pixel produces its own light), …
Aug 25 2013
AVR USB RGB LED Controller
While working on an update for my CPU Usage LEDs project I thought why not just make it into a universal RGB LED controller? The CPU Usage LEDs controller took a value between 0 and 255, worked out what colour it should be and then fade to that colour. This was very limiting; changing what …
Aug 17 2013
Bluetooth Net Monitor v2
This post only goes over the new stuff in the network monitor, I’d recommend having a look at the original post first. New PCB design The new PCB is now an almost single board design, just a separate board for the USB connector. The old monitor had a small main board which connected to the …
May 23 2013
A Lithium Battery Charger with Load Sharing
You may have found that charging your project’s lithium battery while at the same time trying to use your circuit didn’t quite workout, with problems like the circuit not turning on and the battery never finish charging. Even an LED can cause the battery to never finish charging. This article goes through creating a battery …
Apr 16 2013
IC samples
Everyone likes free stuff. I thought I’d share my recent success of getting a few free chip samples:
Feb 17 2013
AVRDUDESS – A GUI for AVRDUDE
Feb 10 2013
Millisecond tracking library for AVR
This is a lightweight library for keeping track of time to millisecond accuracy, the data type for storing milliseconds can be easily configured, it supports ‘unsigned long long’ which can keep track of time for 584.9 million years before overflowing! Any clock frequency up to 20MHz can be used, most of the commonly used frequencies …
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