Improved Annoyatron Schematic

by david 2. December 2009 22:10

I have been starting to learn to use Eagle, so that I can document my circuit diagrams.  Being quite new to designing hardware I'm learning that it's not good enough to just keep a copy of the source code anymore!  So, here is the very simple circuit that makes up my improved Annoyatron:

It's very simple to knock this up on a small breadboard, you just need the ATMega168, a speaker and a battery, just like this:

Obviously, the ATmega168 is overspecified, but I have a few of them and it's easier to mess around with one type of processor.  I really will try to post the source code and some notes on how to get the source code onto the processor as a program.  Honest.

About the author

David
I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta.  Before that I mainly worked in C and C++.  I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years.  I also mess around with microprocesors, but that's just for fun.  I live near Cambridge, England and at the moment I'm contracted to one of the departments at Cambridge University.