I’ve been consumed lately with saving power with my designs and I decided to focus my obsession on my new “FakeFireLEDDriver” design I got inspired to build from this example. I knew that I wanted… AVR Power Saving Techniques: Using the Watchdog Timer for Battery-Powered Projects
So I finally got my next shipment of PCB boards from BatchPCB.com. The boards were perfect, not one mfg issue (I suspect this is mostly thanks to what I learned from SparkFun.com). It’s fantastically… Build Motion-Detecting Automated Dog Stairs with ATTiny13A for Under $10
Anyone who knows my wife knows that she loves to “fall-ify” as much as she loves to decorate for Halloween! This year I found an example using LEDs to simulate a flickering fire. I decided… DIY LED Fire Effect for Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns: A $3.50 ATTiny13A Project
I’ve been spending time researching options for additional memory capacity for an embedded AVR project and found that there are many storage options available. My problem is that I wanted to consume as few I/O… Adding External Memory to AVR Projects: Using 24LC256 EEPROM Chips via I2C
Yes, you read that right! I’ve talked briefly about my dog stairs project in my first post and finally got around to taking lots of high resolution pictures and thought I’d share the project with… DIY Arduino Motion-Activated Dog Stairs with PIR Sensor and LED Lighting