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How-To: Shrinkify Your Arduino Projects

How-To: Shrinkify Your Arduino Projects

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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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

Color-Changing Doorbell

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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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…”

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Custom Hardware to Fix Broken iPod

Custom Hardware to Fix Broken iPod

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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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 […]

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