The Tinusaur

Tinusaur products available on Amazon USA

Finally: we are on Amazon USA. We’re happy to announce that you can buy the Tinusaur Starter EDU kit with Amazon Prime and have it at your door within 24 hours or less. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V5RNWMV

Support Tinusaur in the finale for THE CHANGE 2019

From January 14 until midnight on February 3, you can support the Tinusaur – programming, math, and physics education platform, at the finals of the Social Entrepreneurship Competition “THE CHANGE” 2019. With just one click, you can promote the project to be among the three finalists, of which the experts, the Children’s Jury, and users will determine the winner of the race.

Tinusaur is an…

Updated SSD1306xLED library, fixes, compatibility with SSD1315 and more

Our SSD1306xLED library works well with the SSD1306 displays, it is small as binary code and is very fast.

But, there was a problem …

Several months ago we ordered some displays from the Far East and we expected them to work just fine. Unfortunately, they did not. And the problem was not in our library but with the chips. Instead of SSD1306, it seems they put the not that well known SSD1315

The Tinusaur team was at the BETT Show in London

The Tinusaur Projectis an educational platform that provides students, teachers, and makers with the tools to learn, teach and make things. We’ve been developing this since 2013 and it started because we needed such tools for our own courses. It is now used in a few schools and universities, both private and government in Bulgaria. The education, whether formal or informal, has always been the…

C Library for SSD1306 OLED Display and ATtiny85

It isn’t hard to get one of those OLED displays from eBay or another place. They are usually controlled by SSD1306 chip – one of the most popular. Such displays could be used for a number of things – from just learning to control them and showing some text/numbers/graphics, display sensors’ data or even creating a small game.

SSD1306 OLED Display

Back in 2014, we wrote a small library for…

Meet the Tinusaur team at the FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium

We are launching a crowdfunding campaign for the Tinusaur OLED Display Kit and this its page: https://www.crowdsupply.com/tinusaur/oled-display-kit

Meet the Tinusaur team at the FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium on February 2nd and 3rd.

Would you like to contact us and meet at the event or have a question about our…

Launched crowdfunding campaign for the Tinusaur OLED Display Kit

We have just launched our crowdfunding campaign at Crowd Supply for the Tinusaur OLED Display Kit – a bundle of boards and modules that allows you to connect an ATtiny85 microcontroller to an SSD1306 OLED display. This is a kit so you have to assemble the boards yourself by soldering the parts to the PCB thus start learning about electronics and physics. It might sound complicated at first but…

Interfacing a MAX7219 Driven LED Matrix with ATtiny85

The MAX7219 controller is manufactured by Maxim Integrated is compact, serial input/output common-cathode display driver that could interface microcontrollers to 64 individual LEDs, 7-segment numeric LED displays of up to 8 digits, bar-graph displays, etc. Included on-chip are a BCD code-B decoder, multiplex scan circuitry, segment and digit drivers and an 8×8 static RAM that stores each digit. 

Launching Crowdfunding Campaign in January

It looks like that our most popular software library is the SSD1306xLED. This is a library for working with OLED displays based on the SSD1306 controller. So, we decided to create a Tinusaur shield to carry an OLED display and we’re thinking about putting it up for crowdfunding this January.

What could you do it a Tinusaur Board and an OLED display?

There is an internal temperature sensor…

The Blocktinu App for Windows version 1.2.1 is out

We have just deployed new version of the Blocktinu Windows application.

It is available for download from BLOCKTINU.com/downloads website.

WHAT’S NEW?

Besides some visual changes, there is a new button to upload some testing code to your Tinusaur Board with an EDUx4IO Shield. That is very convenient for testing if the board was assembled correctly even before you start writing some code.

This is the first draft of the guide how to setup the Blocktinu Tools under Windows.

The file in PDF format is available at this location: Blocktinu Tools – Windows Setup (slides).pdf

Please, download it and take a look. If you feel that there’s missing something or wrong, please, let us know.

When we update the files we will commit changes in this repository: https://bitbucket.org/tinusaur/shie…

We have updated the user guides for how to assemble the Tinusaur Board, Shield LEDx2 and Shield EDUx4IO. They are all in PDF format and are available at the following links:

Tinusaur Board 3 – Assembling

Tinusaur Shield LEDx2 – Assembling

Tinusaur Shield EDUx4IO – Assembling

The collection of user guides is at tinusaur.org/guides.

Our plans are, once finalized, to convert those slides to video…

Tinusaur Selected as Best National Digital Solution for International World Summits Awards in the Category Learning & Education

TINUSAUR SELECTED AS BEST NATIONAL DIGITAL SOLUTION FOR INTERNATIONAL WORLD SUMMITS AWARDS IN THE CATEGORY LEARNING & EDUCATION

Veliko Tarnovo/Salzburg, 2018-10-24

TINUSAUR was nominated as the best national digital solution for BULGARIAfor the international World Summit Awards (WSA). The World Summit Awards are a global initiative selecting digital innovation making a positive impact on society.…

How to Assemble Your Tinusaur Shield LEDx2 – Guide (slides)

We have just finished another guide – this time about how o assemble your Tinusaur Shield LEDx2.

The file in PDF format is available at this location:  Tinusaur Shield LEDx2 – Assembling (slides).

Please, download it and take a look. If you feel that there’s missing something or wrong, please, let us know.

When we update the files we will commit changes in this repository: https://bitbucket.org/…

We have just made Blocktinu Windows app better

Here are the changes:

Fixed bug that caused an error message when there is a  space in the name of the HEX file or in the path to your user folder.

Now, the juicy part …

This is the first version of the Blocktinu Windows Desktop Application.

How, as part of the app, there are 2 pre-compiled programs that you could conveniently use to test your newly assembled board.

Just an empty app that will…