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PiStorm in the MiniMig

The MiniMig is a board which is a hardware reimplmentation of the Amiga custom chips in FPGA which connects to…

3 years ago

Amiga RAMesses

I recently developed a popular board called RAMesses, which upgrades an Amiga 500 / 2000 / Commodore CDTV to 2MB…

3 years ago

Review: Framework Laptop

For many years I have been known as the "ThinkPad guy". I've always used IBM / Lenovo ThinkPad laptops where…

3 years ago

An Experiment in Drying Washed PCBs

When assembling PCBs they get quite dirty, a majority of this dirt is flux, it can be sticky and can…

3 years ago

Coding an MSP430 From the Linux Command Line

The MSP430 is a 16bit microcontroller made by Texas Instruments. As with many other embedded platforms I've been doing some…

3 years ago

Soldering Workbench Tour

Over the past couple of years I have been upgrading the soldering equipment that I used to mostly repair Amigas…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago