Over the years, and especially lately, we’ve seen tons of single-board retrocomputer builds. That’s fine with us — the more, the merrier. But they all start to run together a bit, with little to ...

Over the years, readers have often commented that microcontrollers (or more specifically, the Arduino) are overkill for many of the projects they get used in. The admonition that the creator “Should ...

This is single digit timer project based on the msp430f2011 (or equivalent). It can be assembled with minimal parts. With one digit 7 segment display show minute units, this timer counts down at ...

Prescaler: The TIM2 clock is divided by (Prescaler + 1). Prescaler = 999 means the clock is divided by 1000. Period: The timer counts from 0 to (Period - 1). Period = 7199 means the timer counts up to ...