Building an Arduino out of Paper
Following in the footsteps of the original Paperduino—and the Paperduino Leonardo—comes the Paperduino Tiny.
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Arduino Shield Makes 8-Pin Chip Programming a Snap
I was delighted to see the positive reaction to my latest video, Shrinkify Your Arduino Projects, which is based on a tutorial by MIT Media Lab’s High-Low Tech Group. Their tutorial walks you through the process of not only using the Arduino as a programmer for 8-pin ATtiny chips, but also how to use Arduino code and the Arduino IDE to program them. In order to make this process easier, Randy Sarafan created an Arduino shield for programming these diminutive chips. Head over to his Instructable to get the board and learn to build your own!
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.
Little Robots: Tutorial on building telepresence toys
Tony Thompson designed these Little Robots to help keep in touch with his fiancé.
DIY soft-circuit RFID tags
Here’s an older project by Micah Dowty, that I just found out about: a homebrew soft circuit RFID tag. Not content to just make a homebrew RFID reader using a Propeller microcontroller, he proceeded to design an RFID tag using only an ATtiny85 microcontroller and an inductor, and built an antenna for it using conductive thread.
