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The Burnduino Shield
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe Burnduino Shield is, as the name suggests, an add-on ‘shield’ for the Arduino microcontroller and compatibles. It’s designed to make programming an ATmega328 DIP-package microcontroller easier, and turns the Arduino into a remarkably efficient AVR programmer. Features include: 28-pin universal ZIF (zero insertion force)... -
The Arduino Burner Shield
Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 | No CommentsContinuing my creation of circuits that save me a little time, I’ve developed a shield which turns an Arduino Duemilanove (or compatible) into an EPROM burner for ATMega328 chips. Imaginative as ever, I call it the “Arduino Burner.” While working on the Standalone Sleepduino, I... -
The Standalone Sleepduino lives!
Posted on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | No CommentsJust a quick update on the Sleepduino project: the PCBs for the Sleepduino Shield and Standalone Sleepduino arrived from the fab yesterday, and they work a treat. Here’s a quick comparison between the Standalone Sleepduino and its breadboarded prototype: As you can see, the Standalone... -
Using an ATMega328 as an Arduino
Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | 3 CommentsIn the course of the design for the Standalone Sleepduino, I needed to create a bare-bones breadboard that could run an Arduino sketch. I really mean bare bones, too: I didn’t even want to include the 16MHz crystal, as through-hole versions take up too much... -
The Standalone Sleepduino
Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2012 | 2 CommentsMy original concept to create the Sleepduino as an Arduino shield to aid with sleep via white-noise and night-lights – or as a convenient way of getting three RGB LEDs, three buttons and peizoelectric buzzer with adjustable volume into an Arduino – is good, but... -
Introducing the Sleepduino
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 | 2 CommentsAs a new father, I’ve found it’s difficult to convince my little bundle of noise to go to sleep at night. A common method of convincing a baby to sleep is to provide ‘white noise,’ either through the use of an expensive specialist baby-soother or... -
PowerGlove Project – The Famicom Connector
Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 | No CommentsSo, I bought a PAX PowerGlove – so good it’s bad – with a view to connecting it to my PC for use as a neato peripheral. The PAX PowerGlove, hailing from Japan and predating the Mattel-manufactured US release, comes with a DB-15 Famicom peripheral... -
The cost of free: WordPress SEO malware
Posted on Friday, December 3, 2010 | 5 CommentsIf you Google my name at the moment, you’ll find some interesting results – and if you’ve hit this page as a result of looking for ‘webcam sex,’ you’re going to be disappointed. I recently installed a new theme on the site – Magzimus –... -
Dyno-Rod Complaint
Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 | 15 CommentsA quick post containing photographic evidence of the state that Dyno-Rod left my house after a failed attempt to unblock my drains. I wouldn’t have put them in public view, except for the fact that Dyno-Rod’s customer services e-mail has a size limit that means... -
Arduino Hacking: Getting Started
Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2010 | No CommentsJust a brief post to alert RSS subscribers that my how-to Arduino article is now live over on bit-tech.net. Anyone who has ever hacked around in their PC will have been hit with an urge to take their tinkering to the next level and create...