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Yep! I bricked a Pentium 3 motherboard (and how I fixed it)

In my retro collection is a Pentium 3 based computer which I will be blogging about once I finish building…

2 years ago

This PC keyboard hides an interesting secret…

I found this keyboard on eBay recently, although it wasn't quite the one I was looking for I still think…

2 years ago

Intel Inside (but not how you would expect)

I last left my Acorn RiscPC with a StrongARM CPU card and an IBM/Cyrix based 5x86 CPU card. I saw…

2 years ago

Shape drawing on the SSD1351 display

Based on the previous few posts, we now have lots of things we can do with the SSD1351 display. One…

2 years ago

Font rendering on the SSD1351 display

Now that we have image rendering down, it is time to look at font rendering on the SSD1351. As before…

2 years ago

Basic graphics on the SSD1351 display

Yesterday I wrote a post on how to wire up and initialise the SSD1351 display with a Raspberry Pi Pico.…

2 years ago

How to use the SSD1351 OLED display

In my previous post, I mentioned that I managed to get the SSD1351 working with a Raspberry Pi Pico. I…

2 years ago

Interfacing a Raspberry Pi Pico to an SSD1351 OLED Display

I was recently at FOSDEM in Brussels and noticed quite a few people walking around wearing digital badges. So, I…

2 years ago

Adventures with a “working” Pentium III Motherboard

In my quest to build my perfect early 2000s gaming PC I decided to build it into a tower machine…

2 years ago

PiStorm32-Lite and JLCPCB Soldering Issues

There is a lot going on right now about PiStorm32-Lite and the delays in production due to some soldering issues.…

2 years ago