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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 work with it recently. In particular I started with the MSP-EXP430F5529LP development board which is what this blog post will be about. Read more
Emulating PPC32 Linux in x86_64 Linux
I’ve recently needed to do some porting work for a PPC32 CPU running Linux. At the time I didn’t have any PPC hardware (I’ve since acquired a PowerMac G5). Of course when we don’t have hardware, we can normally emulate it. Here is how I set up the emulation so I can remember for next… Read more
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
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