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Frank Donald
January 16, 2021
ATtiny85 microcontroller gained a great popularity among Engineers and enthusiasts. This is largely due to its small size, tons of features and low cost. ATtiny85 will be great fit for robotics, wearable and power based projects. As an initiative for…
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Gadgetronicx Team
January 8, 2021
I2C or Inter Integrated circuit is another popular serial communication protocol built in almost every modern microcontrollers. This protocol uses full duplex communication and uses only two wires to exchange data. ATtin85 microcontroller is equipped with Universal Serial interface aka…
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Gadgetronicx Team
January 5, 2021
Serial communication protocols provides the means to communicate for microcontrollers with external hardware, peripherals or other microcontrollers. USART, SPI, I2C are some of the popular serial communication protocols in embedded world. In order to facilitate serial communication in ATtiny85 microcontroller…
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Gadgetronicx Team
December 19, 2020
Sleep mode is a valuable feature in microcontrollers. With growing demand in portable embedded devices power management is an absolute necessary. To cater this power saving necessity microcontrollers are equipped with sleep mode functionality. This allows the programmer to disable…
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Gadgetronicx Team
December 6, 2020
Interrupts are one of the most used feature in a microcontroller. Interrupts are events that needs immediate attention by the processor/ controller. When an interrupt occurs controller will pause executing the code in its program memory and execute the code…
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Gadgetronicx Team
December 5, 2020
Comparators in electronics are used to compare two input analog signals and output a digital output based on it. Popularly we use dedicated comparator chips for this purpose, however with ATtiny85 we have in built analog comparator which can perform…
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Gadgetronicx Team
December 3, 2020
Following the series of ATtiny85 tutorials this article explains how to configure ADC in an ATtiny85 microcontroller. Analog to digital converter aka ADC is quite an important feature in microcontrollers where it will translate the Analog signals to digital data….
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