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Old School Bluetooth Handset

I had a little fun and threw together something I always wanted to do.

Back in the day, we used these massive handsets with our land line telephones.  They had just the right amount of heft and a design that allows you to ’shoulder’ the handset.  You can still find them in hotels and attached to [...]

New Charge Station for the New Decade

I used the Charge Station I built for a while, but the appearance started to annoy me.  Why would I want to have a plastic tupperware box sitting out in my living room, especially when the duct tape was visible through the frosted top?  The box was too sloppy so I made another attempt at [...]

Bricking an ATTiny2313 and getting LED’s to flicker with a 12MHz external clock

A while ago I was doing some mindless fiddling with project’s makefiles and happened upon some fuse code. I gave it a shot and immediately found it to have destroyed my ATTiny2313 chip; “bricked” it if you will. A few more attempts at trying restore the fuse bytes failed and even reading the [...]

DIY: Charge Station for your Electronic Devices

A while ago I saw an article on Lifehacker about building your own charge station to reduce clutter of adapter wires. The idea stuck in my head, because I often collect a nest of wires at the floor of my desk. These wires often find themselves becoming tangled around the wheels of my [...]