Category Archives: Microcontrollers

There shall be booze!

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Claudio

And I had some more time on my hand to visit the legen-wait for it-dairy roböxotica. Where a lot of fine folks work on making Asimov’s vision come true. So lets just start at the entrance: The Cock’s Bar was … Continue reading →

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sk7cas mobile electronic lab — check it out!

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Claudio

sk7ca made up a great portable electronics lab (with /A LOT/ of arduino-stuff) in an old laptop case and a small road case. I am so thrilled about this, that I asked him if I could feature his build on … Continue reading →

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Imperial March on Avr Devboard

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Claudio

I will not be able to make a new episode in the next 2 to 3 weeks so in the meantime enjoy this little piece: I did not write the code – I only changed some port numbers to fit … Continue reading →

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AE EP#25 How I became a Dragon Slayer…..and Resurrector

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Claudio

Just when I was approaching episode #25 I grilled my Avr Dragon and thought I’d make it into a humerus one. Hope you enjoy it and don’t take it too seriously! find the repair at: http://www.aplomb.nl/TechStuff/Dragon/Dragon.html Just when I was … Continue reading →

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AE EP#20 Industrial Controller Teardown & Homebrew Scope Ideas

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Claudio

Hi, I just started a dream project: Building an oscilloscope from scratch. Originally I wanted to use a russian 13LO37I but it turend out to be too bulky so I went and scored a waaay smaller 3KP1 / DG 7-113 … Continue reading →

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AE EP#19 Quick & Dirty Serial Terminal

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Claudio

This is ust a very short overview about my old 400 MHz/64 Mb RAM Laptop computer, that I turned into a serial terminal after usb stopped working and the body-case broke open. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the original layout for … Continue reading →

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AE EP#15 Pollin electronic AVR-NET-IO

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Claudio

Hi, I just received another electronic Kit: The AVR-NET-IO from Pollin electronics. It is awesome! for less than the price of an Arduino you get a network-enabled Atmega32 Board with all connectors routed to some I/O pins and a sub-D … Continue reading →

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AE EP#14 Freeduino Kit – review assembly and smoke test

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Claudio

I wanted another Arduino because I don’t want to dismantle a work-in progress every time I start another one. So I got this NKC electronic manufactured Freeduino Kit from physicalcomputing.at for 22 € + shipping. I wanted another Arduino because … Continue reading →

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