LEAP#254 AVR Hardware PWM
Arduino provides great out-of-the-box PWM capability, but not a simple way to modify the PWM frequency.
To do that you need to work directly with the processor registers.
This is my summary of hardware PWM control with a range of examples of controlling duty cycle and frequency with the Arduino UNO/ATmega328.
As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub
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LEAP#253 ATtiny Programming Shield
I covered programming an ATtiny with the Arduino ISP in the
ProgrammingWithArduinoISP project.
Since I’ve been programming a few more ATtiny processors, and simplify the processing of programming an ATtiny with ArduinoISP, I wired up a strip of protoboard to serve as a custom programming shield.
As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub
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LEAP#252 Message Waiting
This is a variation of a bi-polar LED flasher circuit that uses two single LEDs. Since that’s not very interesting, I free-wired it with surface mount components to make a little “message waiting!” indicator. Putting a card in the slot turns on the LED flasher. As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub
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LEAP#251 The Lady
A fine specimen of Coccinellidae Boldportus, a new type of ladybird discovered in Bermondsey, London.
“The Lady” is Project #4 from The Boldport Club. It is a really simple circuit, and functionally nothing ground-breaking ..
but that really isn’t the point. It is just a stunning bit of PCB design. Yes, this is more art than electronics!
As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub
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