‘Microcontrollers’ Archive

Dumping AVR Fuse Settings In Bash November 5, 2009 No Comments

I’m starting to get more into AVR programming, and reading / writing fuses is a pretty essential skill. The fuses can be easily read with avrdude, and the Engbedded Fuse Calculator does a wonderful job of interpreting the fuse bytes for you. But I got tired of typing out the avrdude command, then opening up [...]

Building A Boxee Remote Control September 28, 2009 6 Comments

After configuring my Boxee server to distribute video through the coax cabling in my house, I needed a way to control the Boxee server from other rooms. I built a remote control system that uses an ATMega328 microcontroller and a Linksys WRT54G to read IR codes from standard TV remote controls and relay them over [...]