This article is about using an Altera FPGA board to generate images on a VGA monitor.
(This article was first written in March 2009 – now most of us have Android tables laying around performing this…
Just before the Wold Cup, the most horrific thing happened: our 65″ Mitsubishi WS-65819 broke! Now, most people would run to…
This article is a follow-up to the “RS232 and Raspberry Pi” (link) The same MAX board that I had also…
The most common (and the simplest) use of Arduino ADC (analog to digital converter) uses its internal Vcc reference voltage,…
Got a serial communication to PC going with RaspberryPi using a MAX3242-based board.
A weather station, Ambient Weather WS-2080 that I installed in my backyard hasĀ a receiver unit with a pretty nasty hardware…
A few months ago I had ordered a new PCI parallel port card. It turned out my computer did not…
I tried a simple software implementation of a digital oscilloscope using a PCI sound card and this software: http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/scope?mid=2 I…
When printing from Eagle (a PCB CAD software), you can print only one layout per page. Usually, I need two…
I really wanted to find out exactly how much etchant would I need for a given board. That would be…
This blog post describes the various tools that I use for both work and hobby projects, on my development PC.
I am using an off-the-shelf anemometer, wind vane, and rain gauge, which I connected to a custom-built ESP32 board that…