Thursday, November 26, 2009

Hackable LED Christmas card


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A scornful ATMEL ATtiny13A microcontroller (IC1) is the brain of the globe. One pin (PWM) blinks the lights, most of the other pins are used for programming and power. You could attain selfsame effects with a 555 timer or discrete components, but our goal is to learn about a new microcontroller kin and make phenomenon manageable to hack. [via]

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