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MCE Remote – Board Etching and Assembly
In my last post about the MCE Remote relay I was working on, I prototyped up the circuit and finalized the schematic in Eagle. After doing that, I worked on a PCB layout ( all related file can be...
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New Project – Arduino-based Toaster Oven Controller
Now that I’ve got the MCE Remote all built and in service (works quite nicely!), I need a new project. I’m interested in getting involved in surface mount devices. The reason for this is threefold –...
View ArticleArduinoISP – Burning the default fuses for an ATmega328p
When you buy a brand new, blank ATmega328p, it comes with a set of fuses (basically hardware settings) which give it maximum reliability, but they aren’t the default that is required for the chip to...
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AeroQuad 2.4.2 – Barometer with the Uno
I picked up a BMP-085 barometer breakout board for my quadcopter last week. I decided to pick up one because the new AeroQuad 2.4.2 code is able to be compiled to support altitude hold and be able to...
View ArticleArduinoven – Whoops!
I’ve been finalizing the prototyping stage of the Arduinoven, and I’ve discovered something that’s pretty obvious to someone who has worked with thermocouples before. Not obvious to me though, until...
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Bus Pirate as ICSP Programmer
NOTE: This article was written for the Arduino 022 IDE, not for the release 1.0. Things are now quite a lot simpler in the 1.0 IDE, so this article will be getting a severe editing once I get to...
View ArticleBus Pirate as FTDI Cable
One of the things I wanted to do with my Bus Pirate was figure out how to apply it like an FTDI cable for the purposes of uploading sketches to an Arduino. It took me a little stuffing around to do...
View ArticleAeroQuad 2.5.1 – Code Upload via ICSP
So I’ve been fooling with the new AeroQuad 2.5.1 code, and I’ve integrated some fixes posted by Kenny9999 (an AeroQuad.com forum user), as well as integrated my battery level compensation code....
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Arduinoven – Boards Received!
Yesterday, I received my delivery of my Arduinoven boards from MakePCB. Package arrived slightly under a month from when I ordered it, and I got a nice surprise – I’d ordered one, but I was sent...
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Arduinoven – Board Assembly
Assembled the Arduinoven board over the weekend. It wound out being that one of the boards I received had a manufacturing defect, but the other two didn’t. While it would be pretty straightforward to...
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