How-To: Shrinkify Your Arduino Projects
Shrink your Arduino down to a single 8-pin ATtiny chip. Matt shows you how, based on a tutorial from MIT Media Lab’s High-Low Tech Group.
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Color-Changing Doorbell
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from Engineer Eiki Martinson of Lighthouse Point, FL. He writes: “This uses an Atmel Attiny12 to drive a single 5mm, 4-lead RGB LED…”
Custom Hardware to Fix Broken iPod
While most people would simply throw away an out-of-warranty iPod with a broken play/pause button, Craig gave his a new lease on life by attaching a custom-hacked dock connector. Inside the connector, he stuffed an ATtiny 13 microcontroller with a few other passive components. Now when he pushes the button on the connector, the ATtiny […]
