Tindie

Bot Thoughts LLC

760 orders since Nov 21, 2012

54 Reviews

Centennial, CO, United States of America

ATtiny85 / ATtiny13 development board

Bot Thoughts LLC

$5.99

ATtiny84 development board

Bot Thoughts LLC

$6.99

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WS2812B smart RGB LED breakout board

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$1.99

Turntable Strobe

Bot Thoughts LLC

$12.99

eeZee Switch

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$1.99

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Useful and clever breadboard prototyping products that help you create faster. Competition-proven robot rover products.

Hi, my name is Mike Shimniok, author of the Bot Thoughts robotics blog (www.bot-thoughts.com). I've been building electronic circuits since 1985 and robotics since 2007. I hold a BS in Computer Engineering, from University of Arizona and an MS in Systems Engineering, from The George Washington University.

Reviews

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.74)

Documentation: (4.23)

Shipping: (4.71)

Communication: (4.48)

Daniel | Sept. 2, 2017

Decent Breakout Board

For ATtiny84 development board

The board breaks out all of the pins; exactly what would be expected. The only issue that I had was that the JTAG port is close enough to the processor that it had some slight mechanical interference with the JTAG adapter. I took some sandpaper to the JTAG adapter's connector and now there is no interference.

Gregory | June 27, 2017

Easy to assemble and works well.

For ATtiny84 development board

I got both the ATtiny 84 and the ATtiny85 development boards. Both work well. They were easy to assemble. However, if your eyes are on the older side, then you may want to get the assembled version (if available). By their nature, you are soldering some small components.

After identifying the pins on the SPI connector and connecting a ISP device (USBASP or Arduino as ISP), one can easily burn a "boot" loader or application sketch. I found with the raw devices that one has to "burn" a boot loader to ensure the Arduino ISP timing functions work properly. The Arduino IDE "burns" a generic boot loader to the raw ATtiny84 (or 85). The Arduino IDE generic boot loader does not support programming by a serial or USB connection. But, it does work. With the generic boot loader, one needs to use a SPI connection. The raw devices have this SPI functionality built in.

The documentation does cover assembling the board. It needs to have diagram showing the SPI pin locations. This is not a major problem, if one has Volt Ohm meter to to determine the pins.

I am happy that I got these boards. They work well and come quickly in the mail

Guy | May 3, 2017

What you need

For Turntable Strobe

The item does what it should, and it's in a nice little package. Good stuff. Well worth the low price.

Donald | April 15, 2017

Audiophile on a budget.

For Turntable Strobe

This little strobe should be next to the turntable of every audiophile out there. I like the built-in strobe that came with the turntable, but it is hard to see unless your head is over the LP and you are looking straight down on it. With this strobe and even a paper cut-out disk, you will be able to see the accuracy of your turntable's speed clearly and easily. And the price only makes it an even sweeter deal.

Stan | Feb. 11, 2017

Very Good

For ATtiny84 development board

Only tip: Solder the IC holder before soldering the pin headers. I learnt that the hard way. :) Nice product

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