Electronics

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…

1 month 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…

10 months 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…

11 months 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…

12 months 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

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