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How to Setup the Arduino IDE to Work with the Tinusaur Boards

How to Setup the Arduino IDE to Work with the Tinusaur Boards

This is a short guide how to setup the Arduino IDE to work with the Tinusaur boards. What it does basically is to make it work with the Atmel ATtiny85/45/25 microcontrollers. The only difference is that it will appear on the list of boards as Tinusaur – this is done for convenience, so relatively inexperienced people won’t get confused by the long list of unknown boards and microcontrollers.…

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C Library for ATtiny85 to Work with SSD1306 Controlled OLED Display

I recently bought an OLED display 128×64 from eBay (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=OLED+128) – very inexpensive (about 4 euro) but when I finally received it I was surprised to see how small it was – I was expecting something that looked more like the Nokia 3310 LCD. So I thought – this is perfect for the Tinusaur Project. The 128×64 OLED is controlled by a SSD1306circuit and could be…

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TinuDHT - ATtiny Library for DHT11

Ever wanted to do a project with that cheap DHT11 temperature/humidity sensor and did not want to go the Arduino way but with a simple ATtiny85? You probably know already about  the issues with the existing Arduino based libraries running on the ATtiny microcontrollers, but can’t deal with them. TinuDHT is our answer to this.

TinuDHTis a C library for working with the DHT11 temperature/humidity…

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Tutorial 002: Fading LED x1

Tutorial 002: Fading LED using PWM (pulse-width-modulation) technique.

Another beginners tutorial is on the way – this time about a fading in and out LED.

This is simple tutorial that shows how to connect a LED to the ATtiny85 based Tinusaur board and write a program that makes the LED to fade in and out using PWM (pulse-width-modulation) technique.

Note: The code in this tutorial does not use the built-in PWM capabilities of the ATtiny microcontrollers, instead it…

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WinAVR - Setup Guide

WinAVR is a great tool to do development for Atmel AVR micro-controllers on Microsoft Windows platform. It consists of all the necessary C/C++ compiler, linkers and other GCC tools that you need to write, build and program those micro-controllers. Here we have put together very short guide how to setup and use WinAVR for programming the Attiny85 micro-controller and the Tinusaur Board in particular.

WinAVR is a great tool to do development for Atmel AVR micro-controllers on Microsoft Windows platform. It consists of all the necessary C/C++ compiler, linkers and other GCC tools that you need to write, build and program those micro-controllers.

WinAVR: http://winavr.sourceforge.net

WinAVR (pronounced “whenever”) is a suite of executable, open source software development tools for the Atmel AVR…

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Assembling Guide

Short guide about how to assemble the Tinusaur Board. It is simple - does not require very special skills or instruments.

This a short guide about how to assemble the Tinusaur Board.

  Tinusaur Board

The Tinusaur Board is what the Tinusaur project is built around. It is rather simple PCB with a dozen components on it.

The board is easy to assemble and does not require very special skills or instruments.

IMPORTANT: If you are uncertain about anything please consult with our website, community or someone more…

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Pros and Cons

Even though #Tinusaur is very simple it has its advantages as well as disadvantages that need to be discussed, here:

Is there anything special about this board? No! Absolutely nothing.

Even though the Tinusaur is a very simple thing it has its advantages as well as disadvantages that need to be addressed.

It is a platform that is simple and easy to understand for everyone – perfect for a quick start and in learning how to create things.

The board consists of the minimum required componentsfor…

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The Tinusaur Online Store Opens

The #Tinusaur Online Store is now OPEN so you can buy those Starter Kits. Make sure you've got your soldering iron hot and ready.

Finally, our online store is up and running.

We received some emails asking if we could offer the boards and the parts for purchasing … so we did it. We have to admit that it took us some time to arrange everything but some of the circumstances were beyond our control.

At the moment we have only one product listed – that’s the Tinusaur Starter.

Go to this tinusaur.storenvy.com/products/6076006-ti…

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