Keeping tabs on the ‘maker’ community, Arduino as a development platform is certainly very popular.
I initially dismissed it when I first started learning about microcontrollers as I was learning on the Atmel ATmega8, which the Arduinos of the time were based around, and figured that I wanted to learn at a ‘pure’ level and not be confused by an additional abstraction layer.
Continue reading ‘Joining the Arduino collective’
A long time ago, when I discovered the 4D Systems line of OLED serial-controlled displays I was very impressed – an awesome screen with an easy to understand interface was just what I wanted to play with.
Now that I’ve had one for a while – the uOLED-160-GMD1 – I find that I’m stuck in a swamp of indecision about how to try and display things on the screen. Options and choices turned out to be a real problem for me. I will still use it for something and the fact that I’ve switched to Arduino vs. just plain C code on an ATmega may make things more straightforward.
Continue reading ‘Motorola StarTAC SED1530 LCD driver IC’
With renewed enthusiasm I have progressed on the coding of my RetroTAC project.
Today’s result: my little Atmel ATmega8 is telling the 4D Systems uOLED-160-GMD1 where to go! Or rather, what to say.
Continue reading ‘ATmega8 talking to uOLED-160-GMD1′
I have made some updates to the website – the Wordpress theme and header logo primarily – including those nifty little navigation buttons now say what I want them to say.
I’ve also made a forum to foster discussion about my projects and whatever anyone who joins wants to talk about! Running on phpBB3, check it out at http://sniffingcrayons.com/debounce.
