Collaborate Disseminate
Over on YouTube [Electronic Wizard] explains how to use the AT24C32 EEPROM for external memory for microcontrollers. He begins by explaining that you don’t want to try modifying your microcontroller …read more Continue reading How to Use the AT24C32 EEPROM for 4KB External Memory for Microcontrollers
Wireless earbuds are notoriously tiny. Want to see inside? [MCH170] did and published a Soundcore Space A40 Teardown. In this teardown, you’ll see inside the charging case and one of …read more Continue reading Anker Soundcore Space A40 Earbuds Teardown
Over on his blog our hacker [Scott Baker] has a Magnetic Bubble Memory Mega-Post. If you haven’t heard of magnetic bubble memory before it’s basically obsolete nonvolatile memory. Since the …read more Continue reading Scott Baker’s Magnetic Bubble Memory Mega-Post
Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Jerry Walker] repairs a Tektronix 577 curve tracer. A curve tracer is a piece of equipment which plots I-V (current vs voltage) curves, …read more Continue reading Repairing a Tektronix 577 Curve Tracer
Over on his blog our hacker [Scott Baker] restores a Prompt 80, which was a development system for the 8-bit Intel 8080 CPU. [Scott] acquired this broken trainer on eBay …read more Continue reading Restoring a Vintage Intel Prompt 80 8080 Microcomputer Trainer
Retrocomputers need ROMs, but they’re just so read only. Enter the latest incarnation of [Piers]’s One ROM to rule them all, now built with a RP2350, because the newest version …read more Continue reading One ROM: the Latest Incarnation of the Software Defined ROM
Our hacker from [Appalachian Forge Works] wrote in to let us know about their vending machine build: a Halloween vending computer that talks. He starts by demonstrating the vending process: …read more Continue reading Building a Halloween Vending Computer That Talks
ECE 4760/5730 is the Digital Systems Design Using Microcontrollers course at Cornell University taught by [Hunter Adams]. The list of projects for spring this year includes forty write-ups — if …read more Continue reading The Latest Projects from Cornell’s ECE 4760/5730
Over on his blog our hacker [cpt_tom] shows us how to simulate the hardware for a Commodore PET. Two of them in fact, one with static RAM and the other …read more Continue reading Simulating the Commodore PET
[naturejab] shows off his solar powered pyrolysis machine which can convert scrap plastic into fuel. According to the video, this is the world’s most complex hand-made pyrolysis reactor ever made. …read more Continue reading Solar Powered Pyrolysis Facility Converts Scrap Plastic into Fuel