Miscellaneous
We have launched a new online store – Make Wired .com! It’s an online shop stocking all of your DIY electronic component needs from resistors to Arduino WiFi Modules. Best of all, all of [...]
Microcontrollers
What is the ESP8266? The ESP8266, is a cheap WiFi module which you can address using the UART protocol. It’s been featured on Hackaday and other DIY electronics blogs very recently, and lots of [...]
Microcontrollers
In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to install the Thomas Fischl USBasp drivers under the Windows 8 Operating system. The reason this is a more ‘tricky’ task than installing the drivers [...]
Microcontrollers
In this article, we are going to look at a few common error messages we can come across and how to solve them when using the USBasp to program AVR chips with AVRDude. 1. Error Number one : The Device [...]
Microcontrollers
Once you have your programming rig set up and you are ready to start programming your first AVR chip, the first thing you’ll want to try is lighting or flashing an LED – the ‘hello world’ [...]
Theory
In these tutorials, we are going to be looking at mesh analysis. This is a circuit analysis technique which can easily be applied for analysing circuits comprised of a number of ‘loops’ or [...]
Miscellaneous
When following our AVR Programming tutorial video, many people are getting the above error message when trying to program the device. This is the error in question: There are two main things that could [...]
Microcontrollers
Playing with the fuses on any Microcontroller has become a task which many people shy away from, arguably with good reason – I have seen many chips rendered useless by making a slight error in [...]