Is there anything special about this board? No! Absolutely nothing. Even though the Tinusaur is a very simple thing it has its advantages as well as disadvantages that need to be addressed. It is a platform that is simple and easy to understand for everyone – perfect for a quick start and in learning how to create things. … Read more
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
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
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
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
UPDATE: New version of this tutorial is available on the Tutorial 001: Blinking LED x1 page. This is a very simple tutorial on how to make a LED blinking. Since the Tinusaur board is a very standard ATtiny breakout board this could be applied to almost any such other board. The code was tested to work with … Read more
The design of the board will not change very much so the prototypes should be considered useful. Boards are available for purchasing from the following 3rd parties: OSH Park – Tinusaur Proto v0.1 m2. 123D.Circuits.io – Tinusaur Proto v0.1 m2. When you go to these websites look for the link for ordering boards. This information will be permanently … Read more
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
This is the Tinusaur Proto v0.1 m2 that I just finished and sent it to OSHPark for fabrication. You can look at the latest schematics on http://123d.circuits.io at this address: http://123d.circuits.io/circuits/66662. Below are the schematics and the PCB design, for reference.
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