Mentions on Hackaday.com and other articles

Because I lost track...I want to keep this list...may missing some older ones. If you know of one missing please notify me.

2021-02-08 A Modern Homage To The TIL311 Display

2020-12-24 Discrete LEDs Make A Micro Display

2020-01-03 Hackaday Podcast 048: Truly Trustworthy Hardware, Glowing Uranium Marbles, Bitstreaming The USB, Chaos Of Congress

2019-01-10 35C3: Biggest Communication Congress, Yet Little Chaos

2017-05-06 Hackaday Prize Bring-a-Hack Munich Was Great

2016-06-12 Tiny Tiny RGB LED Displays

2015-10-02 The Square Inch Project Challenges Your Layout Skills

2015-10-14 ASCII Games, Chiptunes, Hacker Celebrities At Hackaday Prize Worldwide Berlin

2015-06-19 Hacklet 52 – Breakout Board Projects

on hackster.io

This Modern Day Take on the TIL311 Shines a Light on How to Deal with Part Obsolescence!

If Imitation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery, Lixie Labs Should Be Flattered by the COPIXE!

Build an Ultra Tiny Smart RGB LED Display Matrix with the SAM D21

OSH-park Blog

2021-02-03 This Modern Day Take on the TIL311 Shines a Light on How to Deal with Part Obsolescence

2020-12-26 Discrete LEDs Make a Micro Display

2018-02-04 reDot Smart 5×7 LED Matrix

2016-12-19 reDOT: Tiny 5×7 LED matrix

2016-06-13 Tiny Tiny RGB LED Displays — Hackaday

2016-05-12 PICTIL: Remake of the TIL311 display

2016-01-18 One Square Inch: more OSH Park shared projects

electronics-lab

https://www.electronics-lab.com/pictil-remake-til311-hex-led-display/

Xpress Evaluation Board

Some weeks ago I read this Article on Hackaday. Microchip did gave away some MPLAB Xpress Evaluations Boards. Here are some thoughts about this and the MPLAB Xpress browser based IDE. This page does not claim to be a full review just some thoughts (and I did not get paid for it).

First as also written in the Hackaday article it is possible to get nearly set-up time free entrance to Microntroller development. It is possible to use this this board just with the online IDE and no need to download anything.

The online IDE does work similar to the offline MPLAB X IDE. It also looks similar. But for me there is code completion missing (or at least not findable). After writing your code. You can compile it and download the hex file. But if you like to use the Xpress Code configurator you need to download some software. This should be included in the web application. Something else I did noticed is that you have the board connected if switching between two projects when using the code configurator and the online IDE.

The code configuarator is a really nice tool for fast results. This tool was also new to me (I did work with PICs before). Because I did used PICs before, there was MPLAB X installed on my PC. The code configuarator is there also available as much smoother working plugin.

Now to the Hardware. If there is a compiled hex file created by one of the IDEs, the programming of the board is very easy. The board is recognized as external flash drive. After copying the hex file onto it the PIC gets programmed and resets when ready. Very simple and easy to use. On the Hardware side it is very handy to have the potentiometer and four user leds onboard. Thesre is also a switch wich I did not used so far.

I do like this board and this is a good way to learn more about PICs. So far did only use smaller PICs mostly for basic IO stuff. So this board is a good platform for further experimenting. But I will use the offline IDE the most time. The online IDE is useful if you do not use your own computer (or some small netbook) and want to change something quick.

So faar my first expierencer with this board.

MEMTYPE testing

First test - 2016-01-24

Today I plugged my #Memtype into my PC for the first time. Here I will write some words about the first impressions/ideas. This page will get updated when i am doing further tests.

Positive Thinks:

• Worked out of the box (Win7)
• Nice and user friendly menu structure

Negative Things

• causes blue screen when unplugging while it was writing
  (only one time. I could not reproduce this, could have an other reason)

Ideas for Improvements ( all meant constructive and not negative)

• case! This could be much more handy with a case. So that you can put it on your key ring and carry it with you.
• For testing this PCB USB plug is okay, I would replace it in a production run.
• use right footprint for the ATtiny
• use QFN ATtiny - this would be thinner and better to put in case
• LED maybe dual color to indicate power/locked/unlocked

So far to my first impression of Memetype. the next thing I will do is testing the mttoll software. And store some real data on it.