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

Interfacing a MAX7219 Driven LED Matrix with ATtiny85

LED Matrix 8x8 MAX7219 Assembling

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

Working with DS1307 Real-time Clock and ATtiny85 using USITWIX Library

DS1307 Serial Real-Time Clock USITWIX Tinusaur.

Working with the DS1307 Serial Real-Time Clock using the USITWIX library for I2C / TWI on Atmel ATtiny85 / Tinusaur. Let’s see how can we work with the DS1307 serial real-time clock using the USITWIX library for I2C / TWI on Atmel ATtiny85 / Tinusaur. Bellow is the testing setup. NOTE: We need the USB-to-Serial … Read more

Working with BMP180 Pressure Sensor and ATtiny85 using USITWIX Library

USITWIX – Using USI as TWI / I2C

In our previous post “USITWIX – Using UART as TWI / I2C” we looked at the USITWIX library that implements TWI / I2C communication between а  ATtiny85 micro-controller and peripherals. Let’s see now how we can use that library to work with the BOSCH BMP180 atmospheric pressure sensor and a ATtiny85/Tinusaur boards. The BMP180tiny Library So, we wrote a simple library (called it BMP180tiny) that uses USITWIX to read and … Read more

New Library: USITWIX – Using USI as TWI / I2C

Attiny85 Tinusaur USI TWI I2C BMP180 Variometer

As we know, there’s no I²C on ATtiny85, not even the TWI (Two Wire Interface, which is basically I2C with a different name) that some other Atmel chips have, so I had to write my own that takes advantage on the built-in USI unit. This library is called USITWIX and will be presented in this blog post. Of course, I used other people’s … Read more

The OWOWOD Library

OWOWOD is One Wire / One Way Output for Debugging library. It allows you to output text from the Tinusaur (ATtiny85 microcontroller or other similar), though USB-to-Serial or TTL converter (based on PL2303, CH340G or similar) and to the computer screen using COM port monitoring tool. Why one would need something like that? It would’ve … Read more

Printing Decimal Numbers on SSD1306 OLED Display Using the SSD1306xLED Library

Tinusaur SSD1306XLED SSD1306 OLED Llibary

UPDATE: Please, check the most recent post about this library at /tag/ssd1306xled After playing for awhile with that SSD1306 OLED display I decided to add few more things to the SSD1306xLED library and the ability to print numbers seamed to be an important one. There is already a function in the library that outputs strings so I … Read more

UPDATE: MAX7219LED8x8 uses simple scheduler

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 MAX7219LED8x8 library uses now a simple scheduler to automate the task of outputting the buffer to the LED 8×8 matrix. This is not like a real task scheduler (in … Read more