PIC vs AVR
CC-BY-SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/barelief/197175097/ Most of our readers are familiar with either Microchip’s PIC processors or Atmel’s AVR’s. Lady Ada knows both and has narrated the epic battle...
View ArticleUzebox – an 8-bit Gaming Console
The Uzebox is an old school gaming console hardware designed for today’s hobbyists. It is based around an ATmega MCU and an RGB-to-NTSC (or PAL) converter chip. The system has 4kB of RAM and 64kB of...
View ArticleAVR Assembler
Programming in assembler is one of the key skills that I believe all engineers should acquire. It is not very important which architecture, only that one understands the basic language spoken by...
View ArticleDead bugs
I did not know it, but soldering a circuit without a PCB is apparently called creating a “dead bug”. The ICs being soldered are placed on their backs, legs pointing upwards, like a dead bug. Over at...
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