TINYenormous – Build it up to break it down again

Introduction - just in case you haven't renewed your geek card for the past year (decade?) Arduino is a term that refers to a microcontroller on a board that has certain hardware and software 'shortcuts' figured out. It was designed to be as plug and play as possible, and to lower the barrier to entry [...]

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I'm currently working on a project that requires the Arduino to accept serial input from my mac. This would ordinarily be fine, but the auto-reset function means that the arduino resets whenever I send it data, and then it forgets the data! I emailed Paul at Modern Device company to ask if there was an easy [...]

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Last night I built two Freeduino Bare Bones Boards. I had two kits. One was from Moderndevice, and one was from MAKE. They were essentially the same kit, but different versions. There was one resistor difference I believe. The first kit took me quite a while to put together - probably about an hour. The [...]

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