Category Archives: Electronics

Driving Cheap EBay OLED Displays With Arduino

Posted on March 18, 2013 by steve

Over the last couple of years I’ve picked up a few little 128×64 OLED displays, mostly through EBay auction sniping.  These displays are similar to those offered by Adafruit, likely using the same chip-on-glass (COG) OLED display with a SSD1306 … Continue reading →

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1,001 Uses for the Cypress PSOC-1

Posted on November 24, 2012 by steve

I discovered the Cypress PSoC family of microcontrollers via the FreeSOC Kickstarter Project. It’s a really neat idea; Rather than producing a bunch of variants of their MCU parts with different peripheral options, Cypress PSoC parts leave the wiring of … Continue reading →

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Excellent AVR-Eclipse setup HOWTO

Posted on September 28, 2012 by steve

The Arduino environment and associated hardware is nice and very straightforward for quick-and-dirty prototyping and development, but it’s sometimes overkill. Some projects just don’t need a full Atmega328. Atmel manufactures a wide variety of 8-bit MCUs with different features to … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Prototypes Big Box of Parts

Posted on September 26, 2012 by steve

I discovered The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk (TGIMBOEJ for short, ranking right up there as Worst Acronym Ever) recently. It’s a neat idea; sign up on The TGIMBOEJ site and a box chock full ‘o stuff magically … Continue reading →

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Digital Electronics Basics: Open Collector Outputs

Posted on February 29, 2012 by steve

Check out the excellent overview of open collector outputs over on the Evil Mad Scientist page.

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New MSP430 Tutorials

Posted on February 6, 2012 by steve

Gustavo Litovski has posted an updated version of his MSP430 tutorial on his site This is a nice concise introduction to the platform. Code examples use IAR, but should be fairly portable to other compilers. Another complete set of tutorials … Continue reading →

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AnyDisplay Supported Displays

Posted on January 27, 2012 by steve

Here’s my initial list of displays which will be supported by AnyDisplay. Currently working on a breakout board for the Sharp MLCD devices which should make these easier to work with. Display Type Price Size Resolution Colors Controller Sharp LS013B4DN02 PNLC … Continue reading →

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AnyDisplay: Unified library for graphical displays

Posted on January 1, 2012 by steve

OK, I admit it.  I have a weakness for displays.  Most of the projects that I’ve got in the hopper include some sort of graphical display.  While the ubiquitous LCD character display may be inexpensive, I find them to be … Continue reading →

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Freeduino Runtime Boards

Posted on August 14, 2011 by steve

Assembled a batch of Freeduino runtime boards (from nkcelectronics.com, a mere $1.99 each).  Waiting on some back-ordered DIP-28 sockets from Mouser and I can finish the set. These are neat little boards, Arduino stripped down to bare essentials.

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Excellent Online Arduino Tutorial Series

Posted on July 2, 2011 by steve

Excellent tutorial series from John Boxall on Tronixstuff.  Lots of great information and great product ideas.

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