Looking at available tiles is dizzying. There are several different materials, several common sizes, and unaccountably many colors or patterns. If it were easy or inexpensive to change out the tiles, I'd probably go with something pretty provocative...
Modern microcontrollers and microprocessors have built-in facilities for external debuggers to read/write registers, set breakpoints and generally fully control the CPU. This is one of the main usecases of the standard JTAG interface. The 6502 and 65816...
I spent a few hours trying to fit in the recursive version of Towers of Hanoi (e.g., see here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cburch/survey/recurse/hanoiimpl.html): FUNCTION MoveTower(disk, source, dest, spare): IF disk == 0, THEN: move disk from source to...
As Michael mentioned, he somewhat nerd sniped me with the the idea of squeezing a Towers of Hanoi solver in not the Science Fair Microcomputer Trainer. As an avid fan of both the Gakken FX R-165 and the Science Fair Microcomputer Trainer, I could't let...
Another key part of ensuring that replacing the TI-57's TMC1500 "brain" is possible is to ensure that the MCU has enough throughput to emulate it. My initial assumption was that a 64MHz 32-bit ARM MCU should be more than up to the task of emulating a...
I did another test with the rev1 prototype, this time only measuring voltage, and bringing it all the way to the maximum voltage of 60V. Again I am doing calibration and comparison to my Fluke 101 Multimeter. This has a problem as the Fluke 101 does...