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
The new prototype PCBs just arrived from OSHPark – great quality as usual. I noticed that there are only few things that I may change before call it official: slightly move some components around so they fit better and become easier to solder; add one jumper for switch on/off the optional button cell battery on … Read more
This is a oscilloscope-like circuit for the Tinusaur, it is not a real oscilloscope but could be used as a base for one. It is built on top of the Tinusaur board (Atmel AVR ATiny85) and Nokia 3310/5110 LCD (PCD8544 controller). There is also simple preamplifier for the electret microphone connected to the ADC of … Read more