Archive For The “programming” Category

Getting Started with Amazon AWS Command Line Basics

I didn’t even realize there’s a set of command line tools for working with Amazon’s Web Services.  It only took a few mins to get started, but it wasn’t immediately apparent what needed to happen. I’m using OSX Lion.  If you’re using another *nix this is all fairly easy to translate. I have no idea [...]

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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It seems that I borked xcode, did something bad with my libssl, or just that my system’s too out of date to trivially install, homebrew or build NodeJS.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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