Short Video about the Tinusaur Project

The Tinusaur Project

This is a short 2-minute video explaining what is the Tinusaur project about, who is it good for and what you could do with its microcontroller and shield boards. The Tinusaur is a small microcontroller board with a tiny chip on it. The Tinusaur board is powered by the popular Atmel ATtiny85 microcontroller. It comes as … Read more

Some of you should’ve received their packages already.

Tinusaur Indiegogo Campaign Packaging and Shipping

Some of you should’ve received their packages already. Please, do us a favor! Let us know by email that you’ve received it; or, even better … Tweet about it with hashtags #TINUSAUR and #received or, the best: Share it on Facebook with hashtags #TINUSAUR and #received Thanks again for your support. All the best, The … Read more

Good news, dear friends, and supporters! All of the parts are here …

Good news, dear friends, and supporters! All of the parts are here (except some of the green 3mm LEDs) and we started packaging everything else (except some of the LEDx2 Shields). Quick stats about the bundles we have to package: — Tinusaur Board LITE: 559 pcs — Tinusaur Board STD: 182 pcs — Shield LEDx2: … Read more

ATtiny85 and ESP8266 – do you really need that?

Tinusaur ATtiny85 ESP6288 Shield

Yes, why not. And here is what I did … (this will be series of posts about what I did with ATtiny85/Tinusaur and ESP8266 WiFi module) First, what could be accomplished with such limited device as ATtiny85? It has 8 pins, 2 of which are for the power (Vcc and GND), one for the RESET … Read more

Small changes on the board

Some of the people who received the Tinusaur Starter kit wrote us that it isn’t that easy to figure and remember how to put and use the 2 small 2×1 headers for the external power and the battery on/off. So, we decided to make a small change – have those in different colors. PS1 (external power … Read more

All parts and boards arrived

Tinusaur PCB boards by OSHPark

Dear friends, I’m glad to inform you that all the parts and the boards finally arrived. So we’re ready to offer the Starter Kit to those that are interested. Boards were produced by OSHPark – they look great, as usual. We also received a small batch from SeeedStudio – cheaper but still looks good. We are … Read more