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RaspberryPi Schematics
As the model B of RaspberryPi has been released and deliveries are starting, the schematics have been made available. Great stuff!
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Landing on the Moon
Anyone longing for the classic Lunar Lander title from the late ’70s. Anyone looking to create something more realistic. Over at ibiblio, a collection of documents regarding the Apollo missions can be...
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Cooking a Computer
Over at 8 Bit Spaghetti, Kyle is building an 8 bit computer from discrete components. To repeat this feat, go over to Instructables and read the guide. Personally, I enjoy his reading tips....
View ArticleWilson and Furber of ARM
The story behind ARM, and the technology centre in Cambridge fashinates me. Go read some of it at reghardware. I’ll inspire you with a quote. Herman Hauser was once asked why a great British success...
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Fatter Pies
The Raspberry Pi model B now ships with 512MB of RAM. Opens the system to even more possibilities.
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Schematics
Over at www.electronicsproject.org you will find a broad selection of circuit schematics. Examples range for various amplifier circuits, power supplies, game circuits (remember the steady-hand-game)...
View ArticleOutsourcing – Design for Manufacturing
Bunnie has released part 2 of his series on outsourcing production. This time the topic is Design for Manufacturing.
View ArticleFinal Out-Sourcing Posts
Andrew “bunnie” Huang has posted his final posts in his The Factory Floor series on out-sourcing production to China. Read the first two parts here and here. The final two parts, Industrial Design for...
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ZX81 using AVR
Jörg Wolfram has re-created the ZX81 system using an ATMega AVR MCU. The system uses a PS2 keyboard, NTCS (or VGA/LCD) for graphics and an SD-card instead of a tape. Looks like a great recreation of...
View ArticleESD Safety
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View ArticleATX RasPi
The people behind lowpowerlab has come up with a nice solution to switching your Raspeberry Pi on and off. Using a microcontroller and letting it communicate with the Pi over GPIO, the power supply is...
View ArticleFacial Recognition using RPi
The Raspberry Pi blog just mentioned Pierre Raufast‘s experiments with OpenCV and the RPi camera module. He achieves facial recognition with multiple targets at ~8fps, which is kind of impressive given...
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Arduino Pong
What is the first thing to do when you have video out on your microcontroller? Some say Tetris, other say Pong. I won’t lie – it’s unlikely your daughter will be giving up her Nintendo DS, and this...
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Schematics On-line
Over at schematics.com you can find designs and share your designs in an online community. This can be a handy resource for finding reference designs. An interesting detail is the contribution from...
View ArticleEasyEDA over the web
The EasyEDA project seems like an interesting project. They are developing a production quality EDA system, but with a different monitization model. The plan is to offer free, ad-supported, accounts,...
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Beautiful Calculators
As some of you already know, calculators was the driver behind the first computers and the first CPUs integrated on a single piece of silicon. Before that age, we had electromechanical calculators....
View ArticleApple Lisa Teardown
Any blog mixing retro computers and electronics deserves a visit, so go have a look at Dave tearing down an Apple Lisa at his EEVBlog.
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KeySweeper – Sweeping away Microsoft keyboards
Samy Kamkar has an interesting post on the security implementation in the Microsoft wireless keyboard. Using some smart heuristics, the scanning period to find and get access to the key presses of a...
View ArticleDebug witout printf
The use of printf for debugging purposes is sometimes regarded as bad practice. However, sometimes even that is a luxury. Mark Seaborn has written a piece on this.
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