About Here

This web blog is established for collecting useful information about building prototype with arduino or other applications. This page shuld help a designer with very basical technical cognition to build a working model or a prototyp for his design concept. We find prototyp or working model an excellent tool to test concept and understand it's usage in real condition (not only fantasy in mind). It's ofter very hard to realize every functions of a design concept. However it's our goal here to make this task easier.

What should be always keeped in mind is that we are not engineers and it's not our goal to design a perfect electron programme control. We are designers who are more willing to understand the users through prototype testing.

This web-site is still under construction and more information shall be collected. :)

Dec 27, 2013

Upgrade Arduino WiFi-Shield firmware

I am newly studying the interaction between arduino and xively.com. The interaction was first designed for arduino ethernet but now I need the sketch run with WiFi. I use the WiFi shield and Arduino MEGA 2560. Although the internet seems work, my arduino just cannot get the xively data from internet. Even the example sketch of "wifi web client" doesn't work properly.

Finally I tried to update the firmware on my wifi shield. The introduction from the official arduino page is correct but lacks clear step-by-step explaination. Some other online solutions don't work on my shield. This article is written after my finally finshing the update and solving some problems. The final process I found out is actually relative simple and requires only a few downloads (I use windows):

Dec 17, 2013

Arduino ATtiny 84/85 (updated 2020/8/4)

ATtiny allows you to reduce the cost of your electronic prototype, even lower than Arduino Mini series. ATtiny84 or 85 is microcontroller from Atmel. ATtiny85 offers 6 I/O pins for communication and 8192 byte memory, and ATtiny 84 12 I/O pins and 8192 byte. You can use Arduino IDE to make a sketch and upload onto this tiny IC. To do that, you need to set up your Arduino as an ISP (In-System Programming).
I think, the original developers using ATtiny for Arduino projects are from High-Low Tech Lab of MIT (2009-2014). Visit their page for more information: http://highlowtech.org/ 
This post shows you how to use ATtiny84/85 for your project and other recent updates. 

ATtiny85