Multiplexing – Tim's Blog

Glowing Polyhedrons

Building wireframe polyhedra made from LED filaments, using graph theory to devise geometry and driving strategies.

DICE10 – electronic dice controlled by two GPIO.

Yay, another mini-project with the ATtiny10!

dice10

A while ago I devised a scheme to drive an electronic dice with only two IO lines. I finally found the time and motivation to build up a small design using this as an entry for the hackaday 1k compo. Please find project details on the hackaday.io page or the github repository.

How many I/Os are needed to drive electronic dice?

I recently bought a very low cost electronic dice kit on an impulse. Assembling it was good retro-fun for a while. The circuit design is was purely 70ies style: A CD4017, a NE555 and a couple of transistors. Of course, this got me thinking: How would it be done today in a most efficient way? Of course this means using a microcontroller, and, of course this means using as few resources as possible. Will an ATiny10 with 3 I/Os pins do?

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