Monthly Archives: November 2017

AVR: Battling bizarre bugs

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Do you ever get the feeling that a compiler is acting weird just to mess with your head? That’s how it felt yesterday. I was tinkering with the code for my HexMonitor. This uses an ATMEGA328P microcontroller to read values in from an eight-bit data bus or a 16-bit address bus (selectable via a switch) and display them on a… Read more »

Eagle vs KiCad: first thoughts

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[Eagle vs KiCad part 1] There’s a tough decision awaiting anyone who, like me, is about to get into designing their own printed circuit boards (PCBs) – what software to use. An Electronic Design Automation (EDA) package is pretty much essential for any serious PCB work, and quite a lot of non-serious work too (which is where I come in)…. Read more »