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02/08/2021 at 22:42 • 0 comments

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
03/02/2016 at 18:03 • 0 comments

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
01/24/2016 at 20:54 • 1 comment

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.

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lanli7096 wrote 02/25/2018 at 12:50

hallo alex

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Michel Kuenemann wrote 04/21/2017 at 16:36

Hallo Alex - Danke sehr für den Follow #ALithiumIonBMS - Schöne Grüsse - Michel

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Eric Hertz wrote 04/21/2016 at 07:37

Thanks for another follow! The PICTIL's looking pretty slick, too!

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Eric Hertz wrote 07/23/2016 at 20:09

And another! Thanks :)

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Ryan Bailey wrote 04/11/2016 at 23:58

Thanks for the follow! #Tiny Wireless Capsule Camera

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Adrian wrote 04/02/2016 at 21:25

Thanks for following #ChaiBot. Nice to see your remake of the TIL311. I still have some of the originals.

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Michel Kuenemann wrote 03/21/2016 at 14:59

Hello Alex,

Thanks for skulling my XSBO board. I am currently testing the very first proto and it works great. I have uploaded the Schematics, PCB drawing, Gerber file and the blinky test firmware.

By the way, the PCItil project is great. I have use TIL311 in the past (many years ago). Great memory. They were really usefull and handy when it came to indicate an Hex code. I am wondering if a version with an LPC812 in XSON package would not be possible.

Grüsse aus dem Elsass.

Michel

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danjovic wrote 03/11/2016 at 21:20

Thanks for folowing and for the skull to #Atari 2600 Paddle Controller Reloaded

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 03/06/2016 at 13:00

Thanks for skulling, Alex!

Yeah, it's really only a bit messy, almost negligible ;)

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Alex wrote 02/23/2016 at 11:57

Thanks!

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Roman wrote 02/13/2016 at 15:45

Hi, thanks for the interest in my project. I hope I can keep you interested. I am a test and measurement junkie wondering if anyone else is :).

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danjovic wrote 02/06/2016 at 17:37

Thanks for the skull to #Oh Cheat!

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck wrote 02/03/2016 at 21:02

Thanks much for the skull for my #LiFePO4wered/Pi project! :)

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anthony.webb wrote 01/25/2016 at 21:37

Thanks for following my PNP project! Any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated!

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Dave Vandenbout wrote 10/18/2015 at 14:33

Thanks for the follow!

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 10/12/2015 at 21:44

Thanks for another skull Alex :)

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 12/23/2015 at 14:25

And another one! Thanks Alex! :)

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 01/20/2016 at 22:05

Thanks for the new skull & follow Alex! :)

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danjovic wrote 10/07/2015 at 22:44

Thanks for the follow !

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Eric Hertz wrote 09/08/2015 at 03:54

Howdy! Thanks for the follow! Feel free to join in on the fun and become a contributor! Nice chainable 7-seg LED, BTW!

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Alex wrote 09/08/2015 at 07:13

Thanks

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Stefan Lochbrunner wrote 09/04/2015 at 15:37

Thanks for skulling :)

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Julian Labuschagne wrote 08/24/2015 at 11:02

Thanks for the Skull on my AVR Dev board. Your projects looks very interesting I will definitely be following them.

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Michele Perla wrote 08/14/2015 at 08:22

Thanks for the skull on #JACK!

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