UPDATE: There is an updated version of the Arduino Setup Guide at our new website https://tinusaur.com/guides/arduino-ide-tinusaur-setup/ This is a short guide how to setup the Arduino IDE to work with the Tinusaur boards. What it does basically is to make it work with the Atmel ATtiny85/45/25 microcontrollers. The only difference is that it will appear … Read more
Our first workshop for this year took place couple of weeks ago in Plovdiv at Hackafe. It was part of a much larger event about microcontrollers, robotics and internet-of-things. This time, it was for 2 days and in 3 parts. Part 1 (day 1) was an introduction to the microcontrollers for everyone that was just … Read more
These are questions that we’re often asked: How is it better than ****** ? How is it different from ****** ? First of all you should not compare the Tinusaur powered by Atmel ATtiny85 microcontroller to things like Raspberry Pi (or any other platform running 32/64-bit RISK processor) or Arduino (running on ATmega or similar). In fact, the Tinusaur should … Read more
The Tinusaur Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign have just launched. Official link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-tinusaur-project-attiny85-quick-start-boards/ Short link: http://igg.me/at/tinusaur/ Please, support us. Questions? Don’t hesitate to ask them below.
The Tinusaur Project – ATtiny85 Quick Start Boards This is the name of our campaign. And is tarts tomorrow, Friday, February 26th. Please, HELP us produce more of these boards. Check also our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/tinusaur/
Yes, you read it correct. We’re planning an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the end of this week. Why? We need some help to produce few hundred or more Tinusaur Boards and Tinusaur Bundles that we will keep in stock at our online store. When? It is planned for this Friday, February 26th, 2016. Like the … 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. As you may already know, last … Read more
As we’ve mentioned earlier (What is happening with this project?) we were working on shield-like add-on board for the Tinusaur Board. So here it is … It has only 2 LEDs and 2 resistors for each LED so no much to solder. This shield aims at 2 things – making it easier to … Solder 2 LED … Read more
The functions were moved to separate files in the DS1307tiny library. The sample code in the ds1307tiny_test1 module looks cleaner now. The output should be something like this … Note that one of the challenges working with a real-time clock the the DS1307 is to set it up with the correct time at the beginning. One way is to … Read more
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