Microcontrollers are lots of fun to play with as well as to build useful things. They come in all sizes, shapes and varieties. I am always, however, intrigued with the tiny controllers, like AdaFruit’s Trinket. Well, the latest one I’ve started to tackle is the DigiSpark. The DigiSpark is small and comes in several types. […]
Read More The Mighty ATTiny85 and DigiSparkFTDI recently submitted a couple of drivers to Microsoft for automatic update via Microsoft’s Windows update feature. The drivers work well, IF you are using a USB to RS232 converter that uses FTDI’s chip. If, however, you are using a ‘knock-off’ or a clone chip, these drivers will render them useless. The drivers reprogram the […]
Read More Using a knock-off 232 to USB converter? Better check that chip!USB. We all use it. It is ubiquitous these days. Our phones use it for power and to transfer data to and from the phone to a computer. Our keyboards, mice, mobile devices, external hard disks, cameras, you name it, it probably has a USB port. Even some of our power outlets in the wall […]
Read More Bad, bad Lero…err, USB…baddest USB in the whole townWay back in April of 2010, about three weeks after it became available, I eagerly purchased an Apple iPad. Man, was this the device of my dreams, or what? Indeed, I had wanted a tablet for a decade, ever since I saw a really poor Fujitsu tablet with Windows 95 and ‘Pen Windows’ extensions. Even […]
Read More Why, Apple, why? An iPad ordealSo, I finally got the female to female micro-HDMI coupler that I needed to complete my Motorola Atrix Laptop project. To recap, I purchased an Atrix Laptop dock (from Motorola) for my Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi outputs video to either an HDMI cable (full size) or a crappy composite video connector (old-style RCA plug) […]
Read More My PiTop is complete: Raspberry Pi and Motorola Atrix Lapdock together, at last
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