As I did not realise that Arduino is a quick route to getting a stand-alone 8pin microcontroller – an Atmel ATtiny85 – to do something useful. You don’t get all of the functions and performance of an ...

For the first in a series of posts describing how to make a PCB, we’re going with Eagle. Eagle CAD has been around since the days of DOS, and has received numerous updates over the years. Until KiCad ...

San Jose, Calif. – Atmel Corporation touts their Atmel ATtiny4/5/9/10 family of microcontrollers (MCUs) as the world’s smallest flash AVR MCUs. They come in ultra-small 8-pad UDFN packages measuring ...

If you’re an experienced hacker, you’ve probably run into a problem at some point and thought “let’s make a tool to automate that”. A few hours later you’ve got your tool, but then realize that the ...