Finding long IDE ribbon cables is a real hassle. But I found some over here: 36 Inch IDE Dual Drives Ribbon Cable.
36 Inch IDE Dual Drives Ribbon Cable
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Category Archives: Electronics
Magnetic Core Memory Reborn
lol, this is great: Magnetic Core Memory Reborn.
Evil Mad Scientists…
So I’m interested in Open Circuits, an upcoming book from the guys at evilmadscientist.com. I’m also interested in four of their kits, being:
Books by Hans Camenzind
So the late Hans Camenzind is the guy who invented the venerable 555 timer. He wrote two books I’m interested in:
RP2040-Zero
This bit of kit is amazing: RP2040-Zero RP2040 for Raspberry Pi Microcontroller PICO Development Board Module Dual-core Cortex M0+ Processor 2MB Flash. It does my head in the things that we can manufacture these days.
Humble beginnings
This is fun. Here’s an old photo from when I just started my electronics lab at the old house. You can see that shit kinda got out of hand…
ATTINY85
Searching for ATTINY85 over on AliExpress and sorting by popularity renders some interesting results.
Raspberry Pi Pico
The Raspberry Pi Pico looks interesting. Gonna get myself some for playing with.
Zebra Classic Case for Arduino Nano
There are cases for the Nano, but they’re not cheap: Zebra Classic Case for Arduino Nano.
Arduino OLED display
So I followed these instructions to get my OLED display working on an Arduino Nano. I have a 0.96″ 128×64 I2C OLED display:
