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  • What is Arduino?

  • Arduino is an open-source platform used for building electronics projects. Arduino consists of both a physical programmable circuit board and a piece of software, or IDE that runs on your computer, used to write and upload computer code to the physical...
  • stm32g0, openocd, and mecrisp stellaris - part 3

  • Let's suppose that you have written your code, and written it to to memory of the chip, and you now have a chip you can power off and restart and it comes up and does something useful for you in your prototype circuit.  Well, you basically have...
  • Cricut Setup on Computer: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

  • Recently, my friend James got his new Cricut machine. He was confused about the Cricut setup on computer. So, he asked me for help. He was scared of making mistakes on his first attempt. Hence, I helped him with the complete Cricut machine setup as a...
  • Teasing a few GPIO lines from a UART

  • So you have an old microcomputer board that has a UART but no PIO. Maybe one like mine. No chance then of driving a couple of digital I/O lines unless you add a PIO chip? Hmm, let's look at the data sheet for the Intel 8251, a typical UART of a...
  • A quick foray into the CH552 MCU

  • The CH552 is a very cheap (~$1) enhanced 8051 core MCU by Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics, It's been on the market for a while and there are breakout board projects based on it, for example #CH552 Dragon , #CHUSBIE552 - CH552 Development board , #CH55xG...
  • Aluminum PCB

  • General advent of Aluminum PCB Among all Metal center PCBs, Aluminum PCB is the maximum not unusualplace type. The base cloth includes an aluminum center and general FR4. It functions a thermal clad layer that dissipates warmth in a notably green way...
  • ARDUINO UNO+STONE HMI+MEDICAL VENTILATOR

  • Brief Since December 8, 2019, several cases of pneumonia with unknown etiology have been reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. In recent months, nearly 80000 confirmed cases have been caused in the whole country, and the impact of the epidemic...
  • Ode to My Oscilloscope...

  • I love my oscilloscope almost as much as one can love a machine... My oscilloscope is *both* analog *and* digital. This ain't no small potatoes... We're talking: Its "bandwidth" is 20MHz, but I've diagnosed signals up to 128MHz, by adjusting various...
  • Hello World, 60s Style

  • 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...
  • Netgear ReadyNAS RN3138

  • 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...
  • Getting BeOS 5.0 Professional to work on PCem

  • In my quest to get the last x86 version of BeOS running, I've had to spend a long time testing out different emulators to see what works. Adafruit has recently written a post about getting it to work on VirtualBox, though I suspect because I have an...
  • Different Types of Raspberry Pi Boards

  • What is a Raspberry Pi Board? The Raspberry Pi board is a credit card-sized device that was developed in the United Kingdom to promote computer science education. This device is developed by Raspberry Pi. Its objective is to develop an education system...
  • Lessons learned in duck streaming

  • In the Spring of 2023, a mallard duck hen made a nest in our yard. We knew that meant ducklings in a few weeks, so I scrambled to figure out how to stream it for the enjoyment of friends, neighbors, and strangers. Of course, I don't mean the kind of...
  • What is Arduino Pro Mini? A Getting Started Guide

  • Are you intending to create a modest, useful project, such as a chiptune, a digital alarm clock, or a smartwatch? Why just these? You could come up with a lot more. And, of course, you want your work to be as little as possible so that it not only appears...