We will admit it: mostly when we see a homebrew CPU design on an FPGA, it is a simple design that wouldn’t raise any eyebrows in the 1970s or 1980s. Not so with [Henry Wong’s] design, though. His x86-like design does superscalar out-of-order execution, just like big commercial modern CPUs.
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Making a copy of a purchased game used to be as simple as copying a disk. As the game industry grew, so did fear of revenue loss which drove investment in countermeasures.
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While it might not be quite as revered as its predecessor, the Game Boy Advance is arguably the peak of “classic” handheld gaming, before things got all 3D and dual screen on us.
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Many old Commodore 64/1541 disks have read errors, but this doesn’t mean the data isn’t recoverable – with the right nibtools settings and some cleaning. The ZoomFloppy adapter is the de-facto standard for connecting Commodore disk drives to modern computers, using a USB connection.
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We have had no shortage of clock projects over the years, and this one is entertaining because it spells the time out using Tetris-style blocks. The project looks good and is adaptable to different displays.
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On this tutorial we will get data from several different sensors, sending them to an IoT service, ThingSpeak.com and to a mobile App (Thingsview), where we can log and play with data. We will explore several different communication ways of connecting sensors to a Raspberry Pi, as:
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Sometimes the urge strikes to get busy coding for an old retro system, but unfortunately the bar to entry can be high. There’s a need to find a workable compiler, let alone trying to figure out how to load code onto original vintage hardware. It doesn’t have to be so hard, though.
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This article discusses the Weibull distribution and how it is used in the field of reliability engineering. Reliability engineering uses statistics to plan maintenance, determine the life-cycle cost, forecast failures, and determine warranty periods for products.
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The second Free Silicon Conference (FSiC) will be held at Sorbonne University (Paris) on March 14-16 2019. The conference will bring together experts and enthusiasts who want to build a complete Free and Open Source CAD ecosystem for designing analog and digital integrated circuits.
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This week I assembled few DIYTIL305 modules. Main problems were: Solder paste that wouldn’t go through stencil, leds sticking to tweezers and not being aligned with footprint after reflow process.
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