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Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket: 15 Projects with the Low-Cost AVR ATtiny85 Board
Arduino's ubiquity and simplicity has led to a gigantic surge in the use of microcontrollers to build programmable electronics project. Despite the low cost of Arduino, you're still committing about $30 worth of hardware every time you build a project that has an Arduino inside. This is where Adafruit's Trinket comes in. Arduino-compatible, one-third the price, and low-power, the Trinket lets you make inexpensive and powerful programmable electronic projects. Written by one of the authors of Adafruit's Trinket documentation, Getting Started with Trinket gets you up and running quickly with this board, and gives you some great projects to inspire your own creations.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 26, 2014
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December 30, 2019
The way I chose to read this is the way I'm choosing to read all of these Microcontroller books - as idea factories for projects I might make with the boards. The microcontroller world is a fast-moving place and I'm pretty sure that, at this point, I can get the size advantages offered by the Trinket with none of the disadvantages in terms of RAM, etc because of the continued march of progress. By reading these books, I get a better understanding of what the boards can do and I can incorporate that into future projects, even if I don't necessarily do the "toy" projects in these books.
This book was extremely well written. I especially loved that wiring diagrams were included as well as numerous other pictures and illustrations to help show what the project should look like or how it should come together. It's also great that he gave lots of part numbers in the parts lists. Even if those eventually become discontinued, one can Google them to try and find the replacement.
I recommend the book if you want to experiment with a relatively cheap board (although many of the projects will require getting additional components. If you want a one-and-done for experimentation, get an Adafruit CircuitPlayground)
This book was extremely well written. I especially loved that wiring diagrams were included as well as numerous other pictures and illustrations to help show what the project should look like or how it should come together. It's also great that he gave lots of part numbers in the parts lists. Even if those eventually become discontinued, one can Google them to try and find the replacement.
I recommend the book if you want to experiment with a relatively cheap board (although many of the projects will require getting additional components. If you want a one-and-done for experimentation, get an Adafruit CircuitPlayground)
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