[Scott] is a big fan of the Arduino platform, and he’s not afraid to admit it. It does all the things he needs, but now and again he would like to use something a bit smaller, without all the bells ...

This schematic is all you need to build your own voltage converter. [Lutz] needed a converter that could boost 5 V to 30 V to power a string of LEDs. The solution was to use low cost ATtiny85 and some ...

Recently I was able to build a version of a tiny microcontroller-based LED strobe light for RC airplanes. The build is not very advanced, but it is almost a complete kit. Let’s start with the easy ...