Bits of Progress
Lots of good news on the Tiny CPU front! I successfully programmed a Flash ROM via the JTAG indirect method today. Woohoo! I was never able to get it to work previously, and couldn’t figure out why. Several possibilities: Comically…
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Maker Faire 2010
Ah, Maker Faire. It’s part garage inventions, part Burning Man reruns, part techno-supermarket, and all awesome. Can it possibly be a year already since Maker Faire 2009, where BMOW was featured in Wired, Slashdot, Digg, etc. and I talked myself…
Small ROM
In my ongoing effort to make the Tiny CPU board as small as possible, I’m looking for a small Flash ROM or EEPROM. That’s small in physical size, not necessarily capacity. My search has led me to examine many different…
Cheetos Guitar Amp
Random project for a Saturday afternoon: a guitar amp in a Cheetos Crunchy can. I followed a modified version of Make Magazine’s cracker box amp design, which uses an LM386 power amplifier and a few passive components. The amp has…
Circuit Board Test
I’ve decided to make a simpler prototype board before advancing to the final Tiny CPU system boards. This will give me a chance to get more familiar with using Eagle, create a circuit board, get it manufactured, and verify that…
Eagle vs. KiCad
I spent a little time evaluating Eagle and KiCad, two well-regarded pcb design tools for hobbyists, to see which one would best meet my needs for Tiny CPU’s board design. As a complete beginner who’s never made any kind of…
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