Category Archives: Design
Quake ported to Arduino Nano Matter and Sparkfun Thing Plus Matter Boards
Today I found Quake ported to Arduino Nano Matter and Sparkfun Thing Plus Matter Boards via this article from Hackaday: Quake In 276 KB Of RAM.
The code is on GitHub and there’s a YouTube video with a high-level explanation.
Mail Call #10: Thanks Craig! Also loot from AliExpress | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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In this video I receive Engineer’s Mini Notebook Volume II – Science and Communication Circuits & Projects all the way from the USA from my friend (and mentor (and reader (and viewer (and patron (and Lisp hacker))))) Craig. Thanks Craig! <3
I mention that the October 2024 edition of Silicon Chip magazine is out.
I mention that I recently got my symbol keyboard working on Linux! Pretty happy about that! These are the extra keys that I have at my workstation now: ° ± § λ Δ Σ Π Ω ε µ π θ
I also get a bunch of stuff from AliExpress, including:
- MECHANIC Hard Brush Bristle/Steel Brush x3
- Promotion For arduino Nano 3.0 Atmega328 Controller Compatible Board WAVGAT Module PCB Development Board without USB V3.0 (Color: Expansion Board) x5
- Mini / Type-C / Micro USB Nano 3.0 With the bootloader compatible Nano controller for arduino CH340 USB driver 16Mhz ATMEGA328P (MICRO USB 5pcs)
- Mini / Type-C / Micro USB Nano 3.0 With the bootloader compatible Nano controller for arduino CH340 USB driver 16Mhz ATMEGA328P (MINI USB 5pcs)
- Mini / Type-C / Micro USB Nano 3.0 With the bootloader compatible Nano controller for arduino CH340 USB driver 16Mhz ATMEGA328P (TYPE-C USB 5pcs)
- 10/5/2 Pairs Small Mini JST 1.25mm PH2.0 XH2.54 2 Pin Male Female Plug Jack Connector Cable JST 1.25/2.0/2.54 2P Electronic Wire (JST 2.0MM 20CM, 10Pair) x3
- 5Sets Mini Small Micro JST 2.0mm PH2.0 Male Female Connector 2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10-Pin Plug With terminal Wires Cable Socket 26AWG (Length100mm, 5 Sets 2P) x5
- 10Pcs/lot Ceramics Fuses DMM-B-11A DMM-11AR DMM 11A 10x38mm 1000V 20kA Fast-Acting multimeter fuse
- 10 Pcs/lot Ceramics Fuses DMM-B-44/100 DMM-44/100-R DMM-44/100 10x35mm 1000V 0.44A 440mA 10kA Fast-Acting multimeter fuse
And yes, despite confusion, I did get three lots of two different kinds of hard brushes, and yes, I did end up saying the wrong thing in the video! Can’t take me anywhere.
Oh, and as I mention in the video I am from a beautiful part of the world known as the Blue Mountains. It’s pretty hot here today!
In the end my collection of Arduino boards includes:
- Arduino Nano (Wikipedia)
- Arduino Uno Rev3 (Wikipedia)
- Arduino Leonardo with Headers (Wikipedia)
- Arduino Mega 2560 Rev3 (Wikipedia)
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Wozniak Solder Lugsnotes |
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Old Book Teardown #10: Digital Systems: Hardware Organization and Design (1973) | In The Lab
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Silly Job Title: Component Wrangler
In this video I take a look at Digital Systems: Hardware Organization and Design by Fredrick J. Hill and Gerald R. Peterson published in 1973:
- archive.org
- Amazon USA (3rd Edition, 1991)
- Wiley (3rd Edition, 1991)
Here is the laundry list of links to things which came up during this video, including a few duplicates:
- EEVblog Electronics Community Forum – Index
- Forrest Mims’ Maverick Scientist – Hardcover Limited Edition (signed copies!)
- Make: Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist
- EEVblog 1640 – Mailbag: 4k Microscope, Panaplex Displays, Piezo Singing, RF magic – EEVblog
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software : Petzold, Charles: Amazon.com.au: Books
- SERIAL PORT COMPLETE SECOND EDN: COM Ports, USB Virtual COM Ports, and Ports for Embedded Systems : AXELSON, J: Amazon.com.au: Books
- Usb Embedded Hosts: The Developer’s Guide : AXELSON, JAN: Amazon.com.au: Books
- USB Mass Storage: Designing and Programming Devices and Embedded Hosts : Axelson, Jan: Amazon.com.au: Books
- Usb Complete 5th Edn: The Developer’s Guide : AXELSON, JAN: Amazon.com.au: Books
- Instruction pipelining – Wikipedia
- IBM System/370 – Wikipedia
- direct memory access at DuckDuckGo
- Direct memory access – Wikipedia
- Content-addressable memory – Wikipedia
- computer tape technology at DuckDuckGo
- Diode–transistor logic – Wikipedia
- Compiler – Wikipedia
- carry completion adder at DuckDuckGo
- USB 3.0 Internal Connector Cable Specification
- USB 3.0 – Wikipedia
- USB3 Cables and Connectors Compliance Document
- Electronics Australia – Wikipedia
- Silicon Chip – Wikipedia
- Silicon Chip Online
- university of arizona at DuckDuckGo
- University of Arizona – Wikipedia
- University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ
- university of pennsylvania at DuckDuckGo
- University of Pennsylvania – Wikipedia
- University of Pennsylvania
- duquesne university at DuckDuckGo
- Duquesne University – Wikipedia
- Duquesne University
- fredrick j. hill at DuckDuckGo
- gerald r. peterson at DuckDuckGo
- Mini Projects – John’s wiki
- JMP001 – John’s wiki
- Karnaugh map – Wikipedia
- Introduction to switching theory and logical design : Hill, Fredrick J : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- apl programming language at DuckDuckGo
- APL (programming language) – Wikipedia
- diode logic at DuckDuckGo
- Diode logic – Wikipedia
- diode transistor logic at DuckDuckGo
- Diode–transistor logic – Wikipedia
- flip flop digital at DuckDuckGo
- Flip-flop (electronics) – Wikipedia
- random access memory at DuckDuckGo
- Random-access memory – Wikipedia
- semi random access memory at DuckDuckGo
- read only memory at DuckDuckGo
- Read-only memory – Wikipedia
- microprogramming at DuckDuckGo
- Microcode – Wikipedia
- computer interrupt at DuckDuckGo
- Interrupt – Wikipedia
- ripple-carry adder at DuckDuckGo
- minimum delay adder at DuckDuckGo
- Adder (electronics) – Wikipedia
- carry look ahead adder at DuckDuckGo
- Carry-lookahead adder – Wikipedia
- carry completion adder at DuckDuckGo
- Early completion – Wikipedia
- carry save multiplier at DuckDuckGo
- Carry-save adder – Wikipedia
- floating point at DuckDuckGo
- Floating-point arithmetic – Wikipedia
- IEEE 754 – Wikipedia
- why is self modifying code a bad idea at DuckDuckGo
- Self-modifying code – Wikipedia
- charles babbage at DuckDuckGo
- Charles Babbage – Wikipedia
- analytical engine at DuckDuckGo
- Analytical engine – Wikipedia
- difference engine at DuckDuckGo
- Difference engine – Wikipedia
- punch card jacquard at DuckDuckGo
- Jacquard machine – Wikipedia
- Punched card – Wikipedia
- automatic sequence controlled calculator at DuckDuckGo
- Harvard Mark I – Wikipedia
- ENIAC at DuckDuckGo
- ENIAC – Wikipedia
- univac 1 at DuckDuckGo
- UNIVAC I – Wikipedia
- john von neumann at DuckDuckGo
- John von Neumann – Wikipedia
- princeton university at DuckDuckGo
- Princeton University – Wikipedia
- Home | Princeton University
- word length at DuckDuckGo
- Word (computer architecture) – Wikipedia
- ALU at DuckDuckGo
- Arithmetic logic unit – Wikipedia
- CPU at DuckDuckGo
- Central processing unit – Wikipedia
- microprocessor at DuckDuckGo
- Microprocessor – Wikipedia
- high level languages at DuckDuckGo
- High-level programming language – Wikipedia
- Fortran – Wikipedia
- ALGOL – Wikipedia
- COBOL – Wikipedia
- PL/I – Wikipedia
- APL (programming language) – Wikipedia
- assembler at DuckDuckGo
- Assembly language – Wikipedia
- interpreter computer programming at DuckDuckGo
- Interpreter (computing) – Wikipedia
- compiler at DuckDuckGo
- Compiler – Wikipedia
- bytecode at DuckDuckGo
- Bytecode – Wikipedia
- jit compiler at DuckDuckGo
- Just-in-time compilation – Wikipedia
- sign magnitude at DuckDuckGo
- Signed number representations – Wikipedia
- ones complement at DuckDuckGo
- Ones’ complement – Wikipedia
- two’s complement at DuckDuckGo
- Two’s complement – Wikipedia
- memory overlay at DuckDuckGo
- Overlay (programming) – Wikipedia
- magnetic core memory at DuckDuckGo
- Magnetic-core memory – Wikipedia
- MMIX at DuckDuckGo
- MMIX – Wikipedia
- Knuth: MMIX
- demorgan’s theorem at DuckDuckGo
- De Morgan’s laws – Wikipedia
- list of logic symbols at DuckDuckGo
- List of logic symbols – Wikipedia
- diode transistor logic at DuckDuckGo
- Diode–transistor logic – Wikipedia
- transistor transistor logic at DuckDuckGo
- Transistor–transistor logic – Wikipedia
- MOS logic at DuckDuckGo
- MOSFET – Wikipedia
- CMOS – Wikipedia
- ecl logic at DuckDuckGo
- Emitter-coupled logic – Wikipedia
- dynamic random access memory at DuckDuckGo
- Dynamic random-access memory – Wikipedia
- static ram at DuckDuckGo
- Static random-access memory – Wikipedia
- crypto timing attacks at DuckDuckGo
- Timing attack – Wikipedia
- bipolar junction transistor at DuckDuckGo
- Bipolar junction transistor – Wikipedia
- CMOS – Wikipedia
- Flip-flop (electronics) § SR NOR latch – Wikipedia
- hysteresis at DuckDuckGo
- Hysteresis – Wikipedia
- hard drive technology at DuckDuckGo
- Hard disk drive – Wikipedia
- computer tape technology at DuckDuckGo
- Magnetic-tape data storage – Wikipedia
- read only memory at DuckDuckGo
- Read-only memory – Wikipedia
- content addressable memory at DuckDuckGo
- Content-addressable memory – Wikipedia
- Flip-flop (electronics) § Gated SR latch – Wikipedia
- conways law at DuckDuckGo
- Conway’s law – Wikipedia
- sprocket holes at DuckDuckGo
- Film perforations – Wikipedia
- direct memory access at DuckDuckGo
- Direct memory access – Wikipedia
- IBM 360 at DuckDuckGo
- IBM System/360 – Wikipedia
- The IBM System/360 | IBM
- IBM 370 at DuckDuckGo
- The IBM System/370 | IBM
- vacuum tube at DuckDuckGo
- Vacuum tube – Wikipedia
- floating point normalization at DuckDuckGo
- Floating Point/Normalization – Wikibooks, open books for an open world
- large scale integration at DuckDuckGo
- Very-large-scale integration – Wikipedia
- SIMD at DuckDuckGo
- Single instruction, multiple data – Wikipedia
- cpu instruction pipeline at DuckDuckGo
- Instruction pipelining – Wikipedia
- illiac iv at DuckDuckGo
- ILLIAC IV – Wikipedia
- lifo stack at DuckDuckGo
- Stack (abstract data type) – Wikipedia
- CDC STAR at DuckDuckGo
- CDC STAR-100 – Wikipedia
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Rigol PLA2216 Compatible Logic Probenotes |
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Baker clamp
Today I learned about the Baker clamp. It’s a circuit to help speed up transistor switching time. I learned about it over on Diode-transistor logic § Speed improvement where it said it was developed by Richard H. Baker who described it in his 1956 technical report.
JMP001 Symbol Keyboard now on Debian Linux
Thanks to my mate @edk from IRC I learned of the compose key. I configured my KDE Plasma desktop to use Right Alt as my compose key in System Settings -> Input Devices -> Keyboard -> Advanced. Then I updated the firmware and deployed a .XCompose file that I generated, and now I have a symbol keyboard on my Debian Linux workstation!
Jumperless V5
Today I heard about the Jumperless V5 over on Hackaday: Jumperless Breadboard V5 Readies For Launch. Looking forward to hearing more about that when it launches in a few days…
Hackaday LED Matrix
This is great: Is That A Coaster? No, It’s An LED Matrix!
sigrok and OpenTechLab
I want to learn more about sigrok and OpenTechLab seems like a good place to start…
gusmanb’s 24 Channel 100MHz Logic Analyser
In Build – gusmanb’s 24 Channel 100MHz Logic Analyser from Happy Little Diodes I learned about this Logic Analyzer project. I would like to try building one of these for myself one day too.