It’s official: the Tinusaur will be presented at Maker Faire in New York

It’s official: The Tinusaur Project will be presented at the Maker Faire that is taking place in New York this month – on Sunday, September 21st at 3:15pm on the “Make: Electronics Stage”   Come see us there!   More information is available at this address: http://makerfaire.com/makers/the-tinusaur-project-minimal-microcontroller-platform-to-start-with-learning-and-creating-things/

Tinusaur Starter and Tinusaur Board are Available for Preorder

UPDATE about the online store: (1) Please note that this is the website of the Tinusaur Foundation – a non-profit association for public benefit, and we don’t have an online store; (2) The Tinusaur Boards and related products are offered by another organization, which is a business entity and has a website at https://tinusaur.com. As you already know, we ran … Read more

Out-of-Stock Items at Our Online Store

UPDATE about the online store: (1) Please note that this is the website of the Tinusaur Foundation – a non-profit association for public benefit, and we don’t have an online store; (2) The Tinusaur Boards and related products are offered by another organization, which is a business entity and has a website at https://tinusaur.com. Dear friends, Due to the increased … Read more

The Tinusaur Online Store Opens

Tinusaur Starter

UPDATE about the online store: (1) Please note that this is the website of the Tinusaur Foundation – a non-profit association for public benefit, and we don’t have an online store; (2) The Tinusaur Boards and related products are offered by another organization, which is a business entity and has a website at https://tinusaur.com. Finally, our online store is up … Read more

February: Quick update

Tinusaur Project Milestones

This is quick update for what is happening in the lab. The design of the board is pretty much final. We consider this as release candidate marked as RC1 – it probably won’t change much or not at all. It is available on 123d.circuits.io at this address: http://123d.circuits.io/circuits/116696. You can order the PCBs there or if you prefer … Read more

Tinusaur Starter: We are making a beginners kit

Tinusaur Starter Kit

To start making things with the Tinusaur you need the board, the parts, a programmer with a cable and couple of LEDs to make your first blinking lights program for ATtiny85 microcontroller. We’re ordering the PCBs and the parts from the manufacturers and it seems that the total cost for the full package will be … Read more

The Tinusaur Board Designing Principals

In this post are discussed some of principals used while designing this board. Size and form factor The goal of making this board is not to have a smaller or the smallest PCB that runs on ATtiny. The goal is to have a board that could be used for prototyping simple projects as well as … Read more

We are on the blogging and social networks

Everyone has their own preference for the blogging and social networks they use so here are the links to the pages we have on some of them … WordPress: / Twitter: https://twitter.com/tinusaur Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/tinusaur Google+ Page: https://plus.google.com/112945033113612312174 Tumblr: http://tinusaur.tumblr.com  

The Tinusaur – What is it

Briefly, the Tinusaur is a minimal micro-controller hardware configuration based on Atmel AVR ATtiny family of products and more specifically those with DIP-8 case such as ATtiny25/ATtiny45/ATtiny85, ATtiny13 as well as their variations. The goal of the Tinusaur project is to have a simple, cheap and accessible quick-start platform for everyone interested in learning and … Read more