by Sjaak | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, commodore, vintage |
Since a couple of months I have fascination for vintage computers like Commodore or Nintendo. I’m in the process restoring and pimping a Commodore SX64 and realized I did’t have a printer for it. After all it is an executive machine and how do I otherwise...
by Sjaak | Jun 27, 2020 | Blog, commodore, vintage |
Some time ago I finally got my hands on a vintage Commodore SX64. This is one of the first ‘portable’ computers ever made and weighted a whopping 10.5Kg!! I had fond memories of this machine and always wanted one since I was a kid. The SX64 is basicly of a...
by Sjaak | Dec 26, 2019 | Blog |
The last minutes of 2019 are ticking away… Due to personal circumstances this post is a bit late and our apologies for this. It has been a moving year but never the less we have some nice stuff to bring you next year. We hope that the soldering irons keep you...
by Sjaak | Oct 22, 2019 | arm-cortex, Blog, buspirate, FPGA, stm32 |
10 years ago my friend Ian Lesnet designed the BusPirate. A versatile Swiss army knife that helps you explore serial protocols like SPI, I2C and UART through a simple serial terminal. It was based on a 16 bit Microchip PIC micro controller which features a few clever...
by Sjaak | May 28, 2019 | Blog, china, decap, testing |
It has been a while before I posted something useful. On my search for obscure chips, I came around another interesting Chinese chip (which I don’t reveal yet). The chip was advertised as a cheap drop-in replacement for a American IC so I suspected it would be a...
by Sjaak | Dec 24, 2018 | Blog |
As the last days of 2018 are ticking away, it is time to overthink the last year. Last year was a bit of exploring of Chinese chips. We covered the Gigadevices GD32 in dept intro, solderability, blinkaled, UART and SPI. We also found a very cheap ARM microcontroller...
