TCM8230MD Breakout

TCM8230MD The TCM8230MD is a tiny camera from Toshiba theoretically capable of outputting 640x480@30FPS! This post is to document my experience with this devilish cam.  Breakout This is my second breakout board for the camera, this one is designed to be connected as a module to another board and doesn't use a crystal oscillator for the clock, I'm using one of the PWM channels instead. However, the older breakout is still...

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Binary Counters

Binary counters can be used for a variety of things from time keeping to generating/measuring frequencies. Today, we will talk about the concepts behind binary counters using an atmega328 for practice. Logic! Let's start with a simple 4-bit counter based on JK flip-flops. A JK flip-flop has the following truth table: J K Qt+1 State 0 0 Qt No change 0 1 0 Clear 1 0 1 Set 1 1 Qt` Complement Where Qt is the current...

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