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jacksavage wrote: post #55
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This sounds incredible and makes me want to go through a similar learning process. I don’t suppose anyone could recommend a book or course along these lines?

The Art of Electronics is an incredible resource. They have a companion book which guides you through hands-on labs. I have not read it, but I trust that it would be worthwhile. https://learningtheartofelectronics.com/

Thank you - I recently picked up the art of electronics but wasn’t aware of this companion book.

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Post by stavros »

bombela wrote: post #61
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What toolchain do you use to compile Rust for it? I have about had enough of undebuggable random Arduino segfaults.

The main Rust compiler. https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/avr...

Do you know of any sort of tutorial for this? I'd love to have a play.

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goda90 wrote: post #75
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I live in Minnesota and the struggle is tough. Either my yard is completely unenjoyable for the family due to mosquitoes and deer flies some years or I kill 50 insects that I don’t want for every one that I do. I put up deer fly traps every year and that helps, but this year in particular has been awful for both them and mosquitoes. Luckily for the bugs my sprayer is broken and I haven’t had time to fix it. I deliber…

You can target mosquitoes more directly with mosquito dunks. It's a block of dehydrated bacteria that produces a toxin believed to only impact the larva of mosquitoes, fungus gnats, and black flies. Basically you make sure all standing water in the area is drained or has a mosquito dunk in it. You can make buckets full of yard debris and water and a mosquito dunk to attract mosquitoes to lay their eggs that then get…

Yeah, I’ve used mosquito dunks experimentally but we have a pond behind our house and in front of it, and a lake nearby. It’s Minnesota, after all. I did try to chuck some dunks into the ponds but they have a lot of cattails in the way so I was unsure if they even made it in the water.

Our attic was such a good habitat for bats we had to do something about it ;). But we’re also surrounded by woods.

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Post by bombela »

stavros wrote: post #82
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The main Rust compiler. https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/avr...

Do you know of any sort of tutorial for this? I'd love to have a play.

I do not, sorry. You can read the datasheet of the chip learn everything about it. You can then search online for some implementation of firmware uploader/programmer like "avrdude". Those chips are very simple, all controlled by toggling bits and values in registers.

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Post by stavros »

bombela wrote: post #84
stavros wrote: post #82

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Do you know of any sort of tutorial for this? I'd love to have a play.

I do not, sorry. You can read the datasheet of the chip learn everything about it. You can then search online for some implementation of firmware uploader/programmer like "avrdude". Those chips are very simple, all controlled by toggling bits and values in registers.

I'll try that, thanks.
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