Maybe I am a little slow… As I did not realise that Arduino is a quick route to getting a stand-alone 8pin microcontroller – an Atmel ATtiny85 – to do something useful. You don’t get all of the functions and performance of an ATtiny programmed in assembler, but you can do a lot with what …
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