Headlines
Police Arrest Naked Man Found Covered in Peanut Butter & Chocolate
Man Dies After Swallowing Dentures During Sex
'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius dead
James Farentino dies at 73
White Castle Considers Offering Beer and Wine(I thought is where people went when already drunk)
America is Drunk(someone needs to slap Dr. Keith Ablow or buy him a drink or two)
Occupiers Pissing on Churches Housing Them (Literally)
I guess JoePa can discuss with God if he "did the right thing" now..
First SMD Soldering
Well, here it is. I finally got the nerve (and the board) to try hand soldering a damned tiny microcontroller to an adapter board. It really wasn’t that hard, however at this point I don’t actually know if it works.
New Toy
I got a new toy in the mail.
It is a breakout board for Atmel’s at90usb162 microcontroller, along with supporting hardware and USB connector.
You can program Bumble-B without any special hardware and using entirely free and open source software from Atmel and the AVR community.
You can find it at Fletchtronics.net. Tell him ArmedGeek sent you and he might write “Bomb Parts” on the package before he mails it.
Sparkfun
If you are not familiar with Sparkfun, you should really go take a look. They have tutorials, a forum, an IRC channel on Freenode and, of course, lots of gadgets.
When I was first getting started with electronics, Sparkfun was invaluable to me. Their, AVR tutorials are well done and really helped get me started.
Adventures in Microcontrollers
Lately I’ve been learning the ins and outs of Atmels AVR microcontrollers. This is an early project I put together. It is an ATTiny2313 programmed in c. The 14 segment LED is controlled by two 8-bit shift registers.
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