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When we write about retrocomputers, we realize that back in the day, people knew all the details of their computer. You had to, really, if you wanted to get anything …read more Continue reading Videos Teach Bare Metal RP2040
Modern WiFi-enabled microcontrollers have made it affordable and easy to monitor everything from local weather information to electricity usage with typically no more than a few dollars worth of hardware …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Calculates Water Usage
[Jacek Fedorynski] had an old Magellan/SpaceMouse 3D mouse with a serial interface which made it impossible for him to use with modern hardware and software. The problem he faced was …read more Continue reading Old 3D CAD Mouse Gets New Lease Of Life
You’ve got to watch out for Loki — he’s a trickster, after all, and he might make you think this semi-cyberdeck mash-up machine is named after him, when the backstory …read more Continue reading Loki is Part Cyberdeck, Part Sinclair Spectrum, and Pretty Tricky
A common enough microcontroller project is to create some form of logic analyzer. In theory, it should be pretty easy: grab some digital inputs, store them, and display them. But, …read more Continue reading Pico Makes Capable Logic Analyzer
News just in from the folks at Raspberry Pi: the newest version of their Pico has WiFi and is called, obviously, the Pico W. We were going to get our …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Pico W Adds Wireless
JTAG is a powerful interface for low-level debugging and introspection of all kinds of devices — CPUs, FPGAs, MCUs and a whole lot of complex purpose-built chips like RF front-ends. …read more Continue reading Need A JTAG Adapter? Use Your Pico!
There’s a slew of hardware hacker problems that a logic analyzer is in a perfect position to solve. Whether you’re trying to understand why an SPI LCD screen doesn’t initialize, …read more Continue reading Need A Logic Analyzer? Use Your Pico!
Everyone loves LED matrices, and even if you can’t find what you like commercially, it’s pretty easy to make just what you want. Need it big? No problem; just order …read more Continue reading Big LED Matrix Becomes Tiny LED Matrix Thanks to Fiber Optics
Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to distinguish in online communities. So much, in fact, that a famous internet rule called Poe’s Law is named after the phenomenon. To adapt, users have …read more Continue reading Turn On Sarcasm With the Flip Of a Switch