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Building NodeJS on OS X 10.5.8

It seems that I borked xcode, did something bad with my libssl, or just that my system’s too out of date to trivially install, homebrew or build NodeJS. I really want to install Node, so here’s what I just did. I started off downloading and extracting the latest NodeJS source tarball (0.4.2 at time of [...]

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The Compleat ATtiny13 LED Flasher: Part 3 – Low Power Mode

This is the final part of three in attempting to explain how to make the ATtiny13 flash a LED. Part 1: Setup, Hardware and A Basic Solution Part 2: Using timer interrupts Part 3: Low power mode In previous posts we’ve looked at creating a simple LED flasher circuit for the ATtiny, a first-pass program [...]

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The Compleat ATtiny13 LED Flasher: Part 2 – Using Timer Interrupts

This is the second part of three in attempting to explain how to make the ATtiny13 flash a LED. Part 1: Setup, Hardware and A Basic Solution Part 2: Using timer interrupts Part 3: Low power mode Post-Pre-script: If you find this post useful, happen to try out the code, or have any other views [...]

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The Compleat ATtiny13 LED Flasher: Part 1 – Setup, Hardware and A Basic Solution

This is the first part of three in attempting to explain how to make the ATtiny13 flash a LED. Part 1: Setup, Hardware and A Basic Solution Part 2: Using Timer Interrupts Part 3: Low Power Mode If you’re used to the user-friendliness of Arduino, getting started with bare bones AVRs can be hard work. [...]

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Arduino Game Of Life on 8×8 LED Matrix

I was messing around with some Christmas toys and threw together a Conway’s Game Of Life implementation together on my Arduino.  I just love how quick it is to get things up and running on this platform.  It took me longer to solder a platform for the LED matrix to raise it up off the [...]

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