Articles: The arduino, so many hobbies, so little time.
Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 04:03 PM, (656 Reads)
Well arduino has got me hooked. I've learned a lot from the arduino, and I'm making my own circuits now. That said my circuits usually run off an arduino, boarduino, wee, arduino mini pro etc... all arduino clones. The thing is arduino has gotten me a lot closer to the hardware.
So I have an iscp programmer(a USBTiny) and all the atmel chips support icsp so I just wired up a few ad-hoc boards. I made a dual icsp programming board, for both 8 and 20 pin DIP packages of attiny chips(the attiny13, attiny45, attiny85, attiny2313 etc, etc) I also made a quick v5v powersupply for my breadboard, it takes anywhere from 7-18V, has caps to filter out noise, and even reverse current protection. If I need to flash an atmega16x(28 pin), I can just use an arduino board, I also have a kit from datapro that holds an atmega32(40 pin)
I'm learning how to program these in C and C++. Suprisingly I've learned a lot more bitmath too... its just so much easier to do stuff on a chip this way. I really want to learn how to use the low power functions and I can make really cheap circuits when I can get this close to the chip. Who knows maybe assembler is next?
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