February 2010
4 posts
ReTeSen - AVR-based REmote TEmperature SENsor
I started work on a project to build a remote temperature sensor using an ATtiny2313 for the remote unit and an ATmega168 for the base unit. The project goals are:
learn to work with the UART on the AVRs
learn to work on intersystem RF communications
learn to pull sensor data in and work with it
learn to interface to an LCD (and maybe learn to use a serial in - parallel out shift register to...
PinValues calculator
Since I had to switch to windows for some other projects I was working on, I threw together a quick pin value calculator in VisualBasic (hadn’t used that in forever!). It’s fairly simple and works on a 8-bit port - the right hand checkbox is pin 0 while the left hand checkbox is pin 7; a checked state is a value of 1 / on and unchecked is a value of 0 / off. You check the appropriate...