Here I am, changing the hosting / backend / whatever on this blog again. This time, I’m going with AWS Amplify. It will let me do continuous integration (automatically publish) using just GitHub connected to AWS Amplify. Amplify recognizes Jekyll sites, and builds and deploys them automatically, so the setup is fairly trivial. I already do all of my domain registration through AWS Route 53 so my setup is really simple. The only thing I haven’t got a good solution for is hosting external media (aka images). That may be the place I look next to better automate the creation / distribution of content.

I’ve seen a number of tutorials on how easy it was to create milled PCBs using FlatCAM to create the gcode from gerber files. Well, what wasn’t easy was getting FlatCAM installed on my macOS Mojave machine. I never got it running… so, let’s try Vagrant and VirtualBox to see if we can have a more standardized base to install it into…

Here are the steps I went through to get a new / fresh blog up using Jekyll and deployed to Amazon S3 using Forestry.io with CloudFront and SSL.

An Adafruit Trinket-based button that outputs a Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator sync track. I made this Trinket version after I made a straight-up ATtiny85 / GCC version because the Trinket board is probably easier for most folks to get started with.

Here are two more AVR Dragon quick connectors available at OSH Park. An ATtiny2313 / ATtiny2414 version and an ATtiny13 / ATtiny25 / ATtiny45 / ATtiny85 version.

Websites with no infrastructure, let’s see how this works…

OSH Park pretty much rules. This was my first toe into making a PCB to be produced. I used Eagle to design it and OSH Park to get it made. A week or so later, I got these boards in the mail:

We’re all into Halloween around here… Here’s how we made some cobwebs using only a hot glue gun and glue.

This is hacked to all get out, but using some sometimes modded Arduino libraries as a start and info found all over the net, I finally managed to get my ATtiny85 talking I2C to a cheap I2C LCD. Why no Arduino? Because I want my own timer interrupts and the ATtiny Arduino core uses the timer(s?) I want to use for millis() stuff…