Old tape counter reborn with Ardunio.

The tape counter exists in old cassette player, but nowadays we will see LCD display rather than this old mechanic design. But we all love old days, it is awesome to see the tape counter is getting a remix with arduino:)

(Pointless) Arduino powered cassette tape counter from Tom Whitwell on Vimeo.

CTC mode on Tiny13

There are two OC0A and OC0B compare outputs in Tiny13. It is useful to generate waveform . In this example, we use OC0A to output a square wave to blink the LED which is very similar to the previous timer interrupt example instead the output is generate inside Tiny13 but not our interrupt routine.

int main (void)
{
     b0_output; //OC0A as led output

     TCCR0B = 0x03; //select timer clkio/64

     TCCR0A = (0x01)<<6 | 0x02;  // Toggle OC0A | CTC MODE
     TCNT0 = 0x0;  //starting couter value

     OCR0A = 0x7F; //around frequency @  2.2HZ

     //make the clk cpu slower
     CLKPR = 1<<CLKPCE; //tell cpu to update the CLKPR

     CLKPR = 0x8; //clkio = clkcpu/256


     while(1) {
             ;; //interrupt do the rest
     }
}

We set the output to be toggled every time the counter value match our OCR0A value. Thus, a square wave is generated:



The complete project can be found here: http://labs.bitartist.org/compare_int.tar.gz