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Soldering Workbench Tour
Over the past couple of years I have been upgrading the soldering equipment that I used to mostly repair Amigas and build new Amiga parts. Today I’m going to go through what I use and why I decided to purchase each one. The hope is that will help people trying to make similar purchasing decisions… Read more
Amiga RGBtoHDMI Boards Update – January 2022
Back in May of 2021 I posted an update of the current state of the RGBtoHDMI boards I design. There have been many changes over the last few months. So, I figure it is time for an update. Read more
800MIPS Amiga With Emu68 and PiStorm
Unfortunately life took over in the last few months and I haven’t been able to keep up with the speed of changes of PiStorm to relay them to you in a weekly format. I have, however, been playing with Emu68 on PiStorm over Christmas. It is a project that has come a long way so… Read more
Making a CAN bus module work with a Raspberry Pi
For some upcoming projects I need to have a working CAN bus to play with. On one end I have my Linux laptop with a USB CAN bus module. On the other end I bought a cheap module which claimed to be Raspberry Pi compatible. It turns out that it needs a little tweak first. Read more
Revisiting Xilinx JTAG Programming from a Raspberry Pi
Nearly a year ago I wrote about a way to program Xilinx XC9500XL series chips from a Raspberry Pi. Since then a new version of Raspberry Pi OS has been released which completely breaks this and there are new tricks I’ve created which may be useful to some. So, this blog post is a revisit… Read more
Amiga RGBtoHDMI Supporting Pi Zero 2
Several people have asked me in recent weeks if the Amiga RGBtoHDMI boards I designed support the Pi Zero 2. The answer is now “yes”, with some new Pi software, so here is the details. Read more
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