Hackaday (unofficial) February 25, 2023 4:00am Pushing Crates in 8-bit Color #games #8bit #avr #avr128da28 #color #crate #display #game #oled #sokoban #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pushing Crates In 8-bit Color 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. This …
Hackaday (unofficial) February 2, 2023 8:00pm Audio Playback Toy For DSP Adventures #microcontrollers #adc #audio #avr #avr128da28 #dac #interrupt #memory #microcontroller #opamp #speed #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Audio Playback Toy For DSP Adventures 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 for n…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 26, 2022 9:00pm Turning a Microchip MPLAB Snap Into a UDPI AVR Programmer #microcontrollers #techhacks #avr #mplabsnap #udpi #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Turning A Microchip MPLAB Snap Into A UDPI AVR Programmer 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 purc…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 21, 2022 5:00pm Squeezing GIFs Into Even Tighter Spaces #microcontrollers #softwaredevelopment #avr #gif #imagecompression #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Squeezing GIFs Into Even Tighter Spaces 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, but then you need more …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 15, 2022 3:00am To Turn an ATtiny817 into a 150MHz Counter, First Throw Out the Spec Sheet #attinyhacks #atmel #attiny817 #avr #counter #frequencycounter #prescaler #tcd #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 To Turn An ATtiny817 Into A 150MHz Counter, First Throw Out The Spec Sheet 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 and presented each number as the a…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 5, 2022 3:00pm KittyOS: Writing A Toy OS For The ATmega168 From Scratch #retrocomputing #softwaredevelopment #atmega168 #avr #embedded #multitasking #operatingsystems #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 KittyOS: Writing A Toy OS For The ATmega168 From Scratch 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 larger gener…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 21, 2022 3:00am Blinking an Arduino LED, in Julia #microcontrollers #softwarehacks #arduino #avr #julia #llvm #programming #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Blinking An Arduino LED, In Julia 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 succe…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 15, 2022 9:00am This DIY UPDI Programmer is Nice and Cheap #arduinohacks #microcontrollers #arduino #avr #microcontollerprogramming #updi #usb #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 This DIY UPDI Programmer Is Nice And Cheap [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 …
Hackaday (unofficial) December 12, 2021 4:00am A DIY Biometric Device with Some Security Considerations #medicalhacks #wearablehacks #amtel #atecc608a #atmega4808 #atwinc1510 #avr #aws #devboard #iot #microchip #security #wifi #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A DIY Biometric Device With Some Security Considerations 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 a …
Hackaday (unofficial) August 31, 2021 6:00am CRISS CP/M Provides Modern Hardware for a Classic OS #retrocomputing #atmega1284p #avr #cpm #z80 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 CRISS CP/M Provides Modern Hardware For A Classic OS 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 with a certain OS, and t…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 9, 2021 12:00am Custom Num Pad Does Double Duty as Macro Pad #arduinohacks #microcontrollers #peripheralshacks #atmega32u4 #avr #macrokeyboard #macrokeypad #numpad #usbc #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Custom Num Pad Does Double Duty As Macro Pad Why buy a num pad or a macropad when you can build something new and beautiful, open source that bad boy, and be a hero to the community? We think that should be all the justification you ever need…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 8, 2021 7:00pm Cerberus 2080 — Three-Headed Retro Computing Project #news #retrocomputing #6502 #avr #educational #retro #z80 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Cerberus 2080 — Three-Headed Retro Computing Project For seven months, [Bernardo Kastrup] at [TheByteAttic] has been realizing his childhood dream of building his own computer. It was this dream that steered him into the field of computer design at t…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 24, 2021 6:00am Python Runs Through A Zombified 8-Bit AVR #microcontrollers #avr #python #uart #updi #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Python Runs Through A Zombified 8-Bit AVR As amazing as CircuitPython is, it hasn’t yet been ported to any 8-bit microcontrollers. [Chris Heo] was unsatisfied with his inability to use Python on his 8-bit ATmega4808 AVR, so he worked…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 5, 2021 9:00am RCA Plug Plays Sixteen-Minute Chiptune Piece, All by Itself #musicalhacks #asm #attiny4 #avr #chiptune #lowpassfilter #padauk #pwm #rca #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 RCA Plug Plays Sixteen-Minute Chiptune Piece, All By Itself Frequenters of arcades back in the golden age of video games will likely recall the mix of sounds coming from a properly full arcade, the kind where you stacked your quarters on a machine to stake …