STEM workshop on electronics and robotics in the town of Debelets

STEM workshop on electronics and robotics in the town of Debelets

On March 7th, 2023, in “Dr. Petar Beron” Primary School, Debelets, the Tinusaur team held the third consecutive workshop on robotics and electronics, which is part of the joint project of the Tinusaur Foundation and the Vivacom Regional Grant project. This initiative allowed 12 students from the school to join the workshop, learning to assemble, … Read more

STEM workshop on electronics and robotics in the village of Resen

STEM workshop on electronics and robotics in the village of Resen

On March 6, 2023, the second of a series of robotics and electronics workshops organized by the Tinusaur Foundation as part of the Vivacom Regional Grant project was held at “Hristo Botev” Primary School in the village of Resen, and Mr. Neven Boyanov, the founder of the foundation, personally taught and showed the children how … Read more

Workshop on Electronics and Robotics in the village of Vodoley

Workshop on Electronics and Robotics in the village of Vodoley

In the village of Vodoley took place the first of a series of workshops on electronics, which the Tinusaur Foundation organized as a part of the project with Vivacom Regional Grant.  The creator of Tinusaur – Neven Boyanov, visited the Primary School “Hristo Smirnenski” in the village of Vodoley, where he showed 2nd to 6th-grade … Read more

Tinusaur Foundation won funding for robotics workshops in 8 small towns in Veliko Tarnovo Municipality

VIVACOM Regional Grant

In the coming months of 2022, we will introduce children from Veliko Tarnovo to educational technologies and methodologies of the future Our foundation’s project “Robotics, Electronics and Programming for Everyone” won BGN 4960.00 under the program “VIVACOM Regional Grant“. We will use it to purchase materials and organize robotics workshops for beginners in schools in … Read more

How to connect MAX7219 to an ATtiny85 and work with an 8×8 LED Matrix

What’s our goal? To connect a MAX7219 based LED Matrix module to an ATtiny85 microcontroller and control the LEDs. Doesn’t sound very complicated, right? The Titorial We wrote a short tutorial about how MAX7219 modules work, how to connect them to ATtiny85, and how to write a simple library to work with them Continue reading the MAX7219 ATtiny85 tutorial here. Please, leave … Read more

Support Tinusaur in the finale for THE CHANGE 2019

Tinusaur The Change Competition

From January 14 until midnight on February 3, you can support the Tinusaur – programming, math, and physics education platform, at the finals of the Social Entrepreneurship Competition “THE CHANGE” 2019. With just one click, you can promote the project to be among the three finalists, of which the experts, the Children’s Jury, and users … Read more

Updated SSD1306xLED library, fixes, compatibility with SSD1315 and more

SSD1306xLED Testing

Our SSD1306xLED library works well with the SSD1306 displays, it is small as binary code and is very fast. But, there was a problem … Several months ago we ordered some displays from the Far East and we expected them to work just fine. Unfortunately, they did not. And the problem was not in our … Read more

C Library for SSD1306 OLED Display and ATtiny85

C Library for SSD1306 OLED Display and ATtiny85

It isn’t hard to get one of those OLED displays from eBay or another place. They are usually controlled by SSD1306 chip – one of the most popular. Such displays could be used for a number of things – from just learning to control them and showing some text/numbers/graphics, display sensors’ data or even creating … Read more

The Tinusaur team was at the BETT Show in London

Meet Tinusaur team at BETT show London ExCeL

The Tinusaur Project is an educational platform that provides students, teachers, and makers with the tools to learn, teach and make things. We’ve been developing this since 2013 and it started because we needed such tools for our own courses. It is now used in a few schools and universities, both private and government in … Read more