Electronics

Raspberry Pi JTAG Programming – 2025 Edition

It seems that every time I document how to do Xilinx JTAG programming from a Raspberry Pi, they change something…

1 week ago

Working with the AVR Dx family

In recent years, Microchip has launched a new range of AVR chips. They appear to have had some things borrowed…

4 months ago

Valiant Turtle: Retro Restoration Part 3

I thought part 2 was the end of my restoration journey for Tobias the Valiant Turtle. But there is more…

1 year ago

Retro computer diagnostic tools

In the past, I've discussed the soldering gear and general tools I've used, but I haven't really summarized the diagnostic…

1 year ago

Fake chips, I got stung

Unfortunately, in the tech sector, just like many other sectors, there are scammers around. When you are dealing with electronics…

1 year ago

Tigard and the Xilinx XC9500XL CPLD

This is a blog post mostly for my reference, as I forget how to do this every time I need…

1 year ago

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

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