SN76477

11.23.09
Use It Better

A Really Tiny tinyCylon

Give your cybernetic “toaster” a new set of eyes
By Dave Prochnow Posted 01.23.2009 at 3:46 pm 1 Comment

I first mentioned Dale Wheat’s tinyCylon kit during a post regarding the “new” SN76477 complex sound generator IC. In case you missed it, tinyCylon is a small kit that creates 10 different LED flashing patterns with 5 red LEDs, an Atmel ATtiny13 microcontroller, and a 4.5VDC battery pack. In other words it’s an LED blinky PCB—easy to assemble and easy to operate.

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