ANT BBPS: An Efficient and Portable Breadboard Power Supply
https://www.electronics-lab.com/ant-bbps-an-efficient-and-portable-breadboard-power-supply/
ANT BBPS (breadboard power supply) is an open-source, compact power supply carefully designed to connect to the end of any M102 breadboard. It can be plugged directly into the power connection pins and does not interfere with anything else because of its unique shape. ANT BBPS offers an easy way to control current, a wide […]
DIY UPDI USB Programmer is Low-Cost Alternative to Ready-Made Programmers
https://www.electronics-lab.com/diy-updi-usb-programmer-is-low-cost-alternative-to-ready-made-programmers/
A UPDI USB programmer (Unified Program and Debug Interface) is basically an Atmel / Microchip proprietary programming interface used for some AVR microcontrollers like the ATtiny series. AVR is an 8-bit RISC architecture microcontroller that is developed by Atmel. With the newer generations of technology, Microchip started releasing a new series of ATtiny chips called […]
ATtiny Development Boards are Compatible with Arduino IDE
https://www.electronics-lab.com/attiny-development-boards-are-compatible-with-arduino-ide/
In recent years Atmel has been producing and releasing AVR microcontrollers that are equipped with a new set of peripherals. These microcontrollers use the AVR instruction set and open source AVR-GCC compiler that is used with the general AVR microcontrollers but they are differently designed with enhanced on-chip peripherals and highly competitive prices. The line […]
TinyCharger – Single Cell Li-Ion Battery Charger with Monitoring
https://www.electronics-lab.com/tinycharger-single-cell-li-ion-battery-charger-with-monitoring/
TinyCharger is an ATtiny25/45/85-based, single-cell Li-ion battery charger with selectable charging current limit (100mA – 1000mA) and an OLED display for monitoring. For battery charging the TP4056 is used. The TP4056 is a complete constant-current/constant-voltage linear charger for single cell lithium-ion batteries. The maximum charge voltage is fixed at 4.2V and the charge current can […]
ATtiny Flasher – Breadboard Flashing Tool for the Atmel ATtiny
https://www.electronics-lab.com/attiny-flasher-breadboard-flashing-tool-for-the-atmel-attiny/
ATtiny Flasher is a handy device that allows you to use your favorite IDEs and debugging tools when developing for the ATtiny microcontroller. Enjoy the classic Arduino development experience while working with bare metal. Whether you’re a design engineer, a hobbyist, or someone who’s just getting started programming MCUs, ATtiny Flasher can help you get […]
TinyDecoder – Cool IR Receiver and NEC Decoder with Arduino
https://www.electronics-lab.com/tinydecoder-cool-ir-receiver-and-nec-decoder-with-arduino/
Infrared has been around for a long while. It has proven to be reliable enough so that basically almost everything remote and short range, that came before home automation was cool enough to be considered a thing, and battled its place fairly with RF technologies, so it deserves some love and affection from us. Besides […]
Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Standalone AVR/ESP Programmer with LEMPA
https://www.electronics-lab.com/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-standalone-avr-esp-programmer-with-lempa/
One of the challenges of developing and producing microcontroller-based hardware projects in a repeatable, small/medium volume, is the amount of work it takes to flash the MCUs with the required firmware. Another side of the problem for designers who work with diverse types of microcontrollers is the number of different kinds of programmers they need […]
microUPDI – Pro-Micro Based UPDI Programmer
https://www.electronics-lab.com/microupdi-pro-micro-based-updi-programmer/
Thanks to the increased popularity of the recent ATtiny series of microcontrollers, there has been an increase in the number of open-source UPDI programmers out there. We have covered quite a number of them including the brilliant UPDI programmer compatible with Arduino IDE but we certainly have not seen the end of new designs. One […]
UPDI programmer compatible with Arduino IDE
https://www.electronics-lab.com/updi-programmer-compatible-arduino-ide/
Antti Mäntyniemi designed this board, which is a UPDI programmer that utilizes Arduino IDE to program AVR microcontrollers. This kind of programmer is used to programm the new 0-series and 1-series ATtiny mcus using Arduino IDE. The project files are available on github.com so you can build your own programmer.
Program ATtiny 0-Series Chips with a Miniature UPDI Dongle
https://www.electronics-lab.com/program-attiny-0-series-chips-miniature-updi-dongle-2/
Thanks to their tiny size and improved capabilities, the ATtiny-0-Series of microcontrollers have been a delight for designers and DIYers looking for a microcontroller with the ease of use associated with the Arduino boards, but with a way smaller form factor associated with ATtiny microcontrollers. Along with the ATtiny-1-series, the ATtiny-0-Series microcontrollers were meant to […]