There are two ways to get to the Z80 bus for external operations. RESET* - Clears PC and sets address/data bus to Hi-ZBUSREQ* - input - Address, Data, MREQ*, IORQ*, RD*, WR* to HiZBUSACK* - output indicates that BUSREQ* signal was performed (Hi-Z busses)...
I promised this log for several times and now it is finally here. Let's start with how a rising edge looks.RisetimeThe orange and light blue ones were measured using commercial devices, the Agilent 86100C and LeCroy WaveRunner (this one was already mentioned...
I should apply a gamma curve to the analog axes read from Classic controller to make the response of the stick more subtle near the center and more steep close to the edges. Classic controller analog sticks provide position information with...
Version 1 of the hardware arrived, and I have been testing it. Almost immediately, I discovered I had made a connection mistake on the 3.3V regulator, and the system would not run normally from battery power. I desoldered that part, and by providing...
When you search google for FAT file format you get tons of pages on formatting disks. It's harder to pull out the detailed format of the SD card. Wikipedia to the rescue (Design of the FAT file system). A less technical FAT32 Wikipedia page is File...
I'd been pushing hard trying to get a demo of how you can break an AES-256 bootloader. This type of bootloader is often used in products for protecting firmware updates and a good demonstration of why you should care about side channel attacks as an...
The STM32 board was just a hair bigger than the PIC, but the biggest pieces are still the power switch, channel button, & battery. The plan is just to print an L enclosure which scotch tapes around the hot shoe & sticks up. The antenna will...
When entering a short test sequence on my remote this is what my receiver displays (a dot means an exact repetition of the previous packet):All on: 07 B0 F2 EA 35 90 01 B9 AC F9 .......................... 07 B0 F2 EA 35 90 00 B9 74 E0 .. Color red: 07...
So, part of this project will involve creating very fast light pulses (the photo-flashes), and part will be detecting fast optical pulses (the milk drop and bullet detecting photo-gates). The two, of course, are related in that a fast optical pulse generator...
IMU functions The Arduino 101 Inertial Measurement Unit is fully documented and works well. For the fall detection, the software detects a short period of freefall followed by a shock. Both events are handled via callbacks: void imuInit(void) {...
Ok, now it is kind of proven that binary CPLD (or FPGA) may implement ternary logic, but how we can integrate it with "true" ternary components, especially when CPLD is 3.3V and TRIMUXes are -5V and +5V? Answer is DG403 chips may do the job: Because...
First up, the latest revision. Small changes from the last version including tightening up various current loops in the buck converter and moving the battery-side transient TVS diode to the anode side of the reverse-polarity protection diode to...
Development on the V9958 board continues apace, and after a false start due to a silly mistake in the first revision things are back on-track with a revision 1 prototype. The design is now validated and working really well. So far it's baby-steps in...
Ok, sorry about the clickbait title; who can resist the promise of LEDs? I promise a photo of a lit LED in this log, so you don't go home empty handed. This log is a quick one to introduce an intriguing potential alternative to coin cells. I have...
First paper: Elastic wave modes for the assessment of structural timber: Ultrasonic echo for building elements and guided waves for pole and pile structures (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-014-0087-2, though that goes to a paywalled copy) by Martin...