The 5.21E ROM works file with the current board, but the 7.11A ROM uses a different pin for the vertical sync signal. This can be fixed, but then the 5.21E ROM results in no display. Rather than fixing the hardware (with a jumper to be changed when the...
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...
I just had to follow the leads and trust my intuition. I had noticed that the last digits of the gPEAC moduli had a strange behaviour but I only dared to dig the matter these last days and oh boy was it worth it. I had already noticed that maximal...
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...
This represents a complete OPCODE list with 14 Constants (int values) available and 10 Labels (byte values) available for creating subroutines. Constants were favored over Labels, but this is up for evaluation. NOP and HCF were both added to the official...
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) {...
I might be missing a few connections yet which I'll correct as I come across them, but here is the pinout of the XC3S250E FPGA on the control board. Note that the SRAM and the Flash share an interface bus. Also note that the JTAG interface...
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...
In the first log I investigated the methods of growing bacteria, and extracting ,then purifying their PHA granules into usable plastics! A major roadblock is the usage of toxic solvents in the extraction and/or purification process. This means...
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...
I get tired of fighting GCC's weird code generator that won't get a clue from my source code. I'm (still) using gcc6.4.1 (2017, I know) but I don't know how to make it understand basic things... This is critical at my level because any little performance...
PSRAM Challenges The PSRAM presented numerous challenges throughout development. One issue arose from the SSI clock divider, which could only be set to even integers. When the RP2040s were originally clocked at 266MHz to meet N64 SRAM timings and the...
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...