Reverse engineering a $30 MaKey MaKey derivative with good intentions (but no attribution)
We tore apart a Neato Robotics XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner and did a little reverse engineering.
ON Semiconductor lets us know that the fake ATmega328s are actually NCP5318 buck regulators for Intel processors.
We unleash the professionals at Atmel to inspect the insides of our defunct ATmega328s. We found ON Semi written inside. Tim gives us a tour of the Failure Analysis labs at Atmel, Colorado Springs campus.
A SparkFun customer and a a local dentist investigate the ATMega328 "slugs" - with interesting findings.
SparkFun gets counterfeit parts, buys nitric acid and a microscope, finds lack of silicon.
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There is an IR interface for X-10 (IR543 or IR7243), I imagine this would work with it.
I was right! It IS entertaining! But regarding the IR Blaster… what I’d really like to see is one that interfaces with the venerable…
For all those looking at doing Arduino in Visual Studio Code, check out the Arduino Extension:…
There was a spelling error in the previous version of the video so we corrected it and updated the link. Should be up and viewable now!…
When I click on the IR Blaster video, I’m getting a message that it’s been removed by the user! Bummer… SF videos are (almost) always…
I’ve been using VS Code and PlatformIO for about a year. Is this better?
Thanks for the post! I’ll have to check out the stuff you’ve suggested! I’ve been “doing” software since shortly after Neil Armstrong took…
Thanks for adding that. I just know it as “that thing I had to write a driver for” and have seen more of that datasheet than I care to…
I built my parking sensor with a HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, ESP8266-12E (NodeMCU v3), and a RED/GREEN LED. I used the ESP8266 to enable it…
