futz f&ts v.i. To tinker experimentally; to change something just to see what it does

I ported my 7110 LCD C code for PIC to MicroPython on the PyBoard. It wasn't very difficult. Yet again, most of the trouble I had was due to having to learn Python as I ported the code. Not a big deal - Python isn't difficult to learn.

I wasn't sure about text formatting for my font array in Pytho...

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After tinkering with the Adafruit Trinket M0 for a short while I ordered a STM32F4 MicroPython board from icstation.com. When I got it I dropped it in a box and forgot about it for a year or so. When I finally went to play with the board I saw that it had "TPYBoard" printed on the back, so I googl...

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I love my 2-wire LCDs and use them all the time, but since I started tinkering with the PIC10F322 chip that has only four I/O pins I decided to have a closer look at Roman Black's "Shift1" system. I could really use that one extra pin!

Shift1 uses a 74HC595 shift register with a couple RC circ...

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I got my PC boards from OSH Park. The top boards are just some SOT23 breakouts to make breadboarding easier. Soldering wire legs onto SOT23s is a little difficult, and they don't hold up well to plugging and unplugging.

The bottom boards are my PIC10F322 general purpose board. OSH Park shorted me...

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I was recently looking at Microchip's PIC10F322 microcontroller and thought it was a very capable little MCU for its price (and size). It has some really interesting peripherals onboard, like the Configurable Logic Cell (CLC), the Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO) Module and the Complementary...

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