This is my second installment on using PLX-DAQ as an easy method of sending data from an Arduino or any AVR related MCU to Excel. Here I will be showing you how to process the data into a graphical chart for plotting it’s values…the easy way
Originally published in 2017. PDP-1 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory As you might have gathered from my projects, I am a bit of computer and electronics history buff. I’m old enough to actually remember using an 8-bit Heathkit H-89 computer...
The BPI-Pico-S3 is an ESP32S3 development board that has been fully adapted to CircuitPython, and the TinyUF2 + CircuitPython firmware is installed by default. No need to install any drivers in Windows 10, Windows 11, Ubuntu Desktop, or Mac OS operating...
Are you the type of person who likes listening to good ol' radio like I do? Unfortunately, medium-wave broadcasting has decayed in the last few decades. There's nothing in many areas, even at night when medium wavelengths work best. That’s why the radios...
My daughter loves reading, and I appreciate her hobby as it helps her collect information. To honor her hobby, I will give her a customized bookmark that I made. It will be a symbol of love and appreciation for taking her hobby so seriously...
Table of Contents 1. Hardware2. The serial console 1 Hardware The Netgear ReadyNAS 3138 is a 1U rack-mounted NAS server with 4 3.5'' SATA drive slots. I have recently purchased such a device in order to use it as a small home fileserver and decided to...
Dyson V6 Setup and Running System Dyson handheld vacuum cleaners utilize high RPM brushless DC motors. Specifications indicate that some models can reach as high as 125000 RPM. I’ve disassembled DC56(V2), V6, and V10 models. Each has a brushless single-phase...
First let me apologize for the pictures, I was too lazy to grab my DSLR so my "trusty" Samsung Galaxy S2 had to be enough.So let's dive into my adventure with SMD soldering with a toaster oven. I had all I would need to test this method myself. The boards...
I lost all the images here! Links and uploads! :( slowly rebuilding... Project Ideas... In order of most-recently-listed, first (read from the bottom-up):12-5-18: YES! 10-24-18: https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/av-synth-is-psychedelic-analog-mayhem/...
Briefly: 80-wire IDE cables are *great* for high-speed stuff... But the pinout is a bit more difficult than a straight-through 40-wire IDE cable, because the 80-wire cables have shielding (yay!) which is connected to specific pins designated as ground,...
I did really like the idea of #PICTIL. So I did some research on this and on this page I will just summarize ideas. (mostly because all this in a comment would be to much I think). First the idea of using the PIC16F527 which @Yann Guidon / YGDES suggested....
During a visit to the ham swap meet at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach. It's always on the last Saturday of the month, and until now I haven't been in LA on the last Saturday of the month. Because I went to Sparklecon last week, I was also able...
This is my first full post of a hack (nay, an innovation, says you the reader), I realize I will make mistakes in it's presentation but I will endeavor to clarify my future ominous basement doings more clearly based on the kind comments of the bored...
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This is my write up of how I made the cheap Chinese knockoff xbox chatpad to work for me. After watching one of Ben Hecks classics - "Build a Retro Computer: BASIC 80's Pocket Computer"[link] I bought the cheapest on eBay I was able to find (as always),...