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Aug 31

First SMD Soldering

Posted by ArmedGeek on Monday, August 31, 2009 in Microcontrollers

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.

Mega2560_adapter3

Mega2560_adapter1

Mega2560_adapter2

Jul 20

Sparkfun

Posted by ArmedGeek on Monday, July 20, 2009 in Microcontrollers, News, Personal

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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.

Jun 2

Adventures in Microcontrollers

Posted by ArmedGeek on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 in Microcontrollers, Programming

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.