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
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
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
We are launching #CROWDFUNDING campaign at @CROWD_SUPPLY – next week! It will be for the #Tinusaur OLED Kit – the display shield that many of our users have asked for. Subscribe for the launch updates or just wait until it starts. 😉 https://www.crowdsupply.com/tinusaur/oled-display-kit
UPDATE 2022: The MAX7219LED8x8 library, now renamed to MAX7219tiny has now a new home at tinusaur.com/libraries/max7219tiny. Check also this MAX7219 & ATtiny85 tutorial to learn how the library works. The MAX7219 controller manufactured by Maxim Integrated is a compact, serial input/output common-cathode display driver that could interface microcontrollers to 64 individual LEDs, 7-segment numeric LED displays of up to 8 digits, bar-graph … Read more
It looks like that our most popular software library is the SSD1306xLED. This is a library for working with OLED displays based on the SSD1306 controller. So, we decided to create a Tinusaur shield to carry an OLED display and we’re thinking about putting it up for crowdfunding this January. What could you do it … Read more
The Blocktinu is the development environment for your Tinusaur microcontroller boards where you could use blocks to produce real C programming language source code. As you move your blocks (on the left) to implement your algorithms, the source code (on the right) will be automatically updated. Pretty neat, huh? Now you can start learning the C programming … Read more
Campaign link: http://igg.me/at/tinusaur Project link: / A small robot car that you could build yourself and program it to follow a black line on the floor. A small game platform, that you could build and program yourself. Those are the Tinusaur project goodies. They can help you learn, teach and make things with microcontrollers, and have … Read more
The Gametinu is a small game platform that you could build yourself. But don’t worry, it isn’t that complicated. This circuit is very simple, and there are very few things that could go wrong. The “brain” of the Gametinu is the Tinusaur board, powered by the popular Atmel ATtiny85 microcontroller. Once your Gametinu is ready you can start … Read more
The Cartinu is a small robot car that you could build yourself. But don’t worry! It isn’t that complicated – this circuit, is so simple, that there are very few things that could go wrong. The “brain” of the Cartinu is the Tinusaur board that is powered by the popular Atmel ATtiny85 microcontroller. Once your Cartinu is ready … Read more