Tag: electronics
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Digital interfaces: explained
Interfaces and protocols can be quite confusing for people taking their first steps into electronics and Arduino, but they are just like the languages spoken by microcontrollers and sensors. If two devices support the same interface, they can “speak” to each other with digital signals of ones and zeroes. Over the years, many different and…
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An idea, a breadboard, and 3 hours
One afternoon, I decided to make a project I had been thinking about for a while: a simple countdown timer. It would have been easier to just overkill the thing with a RPi Pico (32bit MCU) in 2 seconds, but I wanted to challenge myself and do it with an ATtiny, an 8 bit AVR…