Hurricane Michael touched only lightly in Northeast Florida, which was a relief after what Irma did the previous year. However, we weren’t completely unscathed. and the lights did blip and the UPS kicked in, but not soon enough. Thereafter, my desktop machine’s energy-saving modes started acting up. This is a machine that had been swapped with a production […]
Category: Hardware
Why I’m not using DigiSpark’s ATTiny85 in Almost Everything
The DigiStump ATTiny85 board is a really attractive bit of hardware. It’s cheap, it can be accessed via the on-board USB connector, and while it hasn’t got the advanced hardware features of its bigger kin, there are a lot of things you can do with its small number of ports, memory and features. I’ve got a list, in […]
The Underappreciated Raspberry
The Raspberry Pi B version is one of the most popular hacker toys of the day and with good reason. Although it’s not the first sub-miniature single-board computer, it’s the first one whose price, performance, features and power make it an acceptable substitute for a “real” desktop computer. But there’s another Raspberry Pi as well. Ironically, the “A” […]