MusiCubes:

The Finishing Touch

Starting a project isn’t difficult. Finishing is. Or as they say: the last 20% is always the hardest part. But no worries, today we’ll finish this project by working on the final details.

A Tiny Success: Flashing the USBasp

Two weeks ago I posted about my experiment with the ATTiny10. A 12Mhz 8-bit micro controller small enough to be confused with an obese ant. Unfortunately I didn’t succeed in programming this tiny guy, so this week I continue my small scale flashing quest.

A Tiny Failure

If you are a regular visitor of my blog, you might know that (with a few exceptions) I’ve been posting a new blog posts every two weeks. Unfortunately I skipped this regular update last week, because I’ve been a little bit sick. Nothing major, but I didn’t want to contaminate my boxes of SMD components with germs. So after a few days of sleep it’s time to get back to business and start with something small. Literally.

Activity Board:

It's all about the code!

With the activity board controller finally in place and tested. It’s time to throw together the actual firmware. Let’s fire up VSCode!

Activity Board:

Push the button!

Now that the activity board casing is done. It’s time to start the wiring of all the components. A tedious job which I take way too serious.

Robotic Arm:

Illuminating the joint.

2 weeks ago I wrote about my new project: building my own DUM-E robot. And while I have a lot of idea’s for this project, I mainly spent my time waiting for the nessecery parts to arrive. So to ease the waiting, let’s work on making the passive side of the joint a little more sexy.