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Stripboard Oscilloscope MkII

“How to improve on the stripboard oscilloscope we built in the last article. In the previous project we built a super cheap oscilloscope on stripboard (aka Veroboard) using a Raspberry Pi Pico, an LM358 op-amp and some passive components. In …

Antique Lantern Project

“Hello everyone, and welcome back. Now for something BRIGHT, a retrofitted antique-looking oil lamp with four LEDs that are turned ON and OFF in a chaser pattern to provide the appearance of fire flickering. The Attiny 13A driving four SMD …

BrailleRAP diy Braille embosser

“An Open source Braille embosser in the spirit of RepRap A full documented and reproducible cheap DIY Braille embosser, with software ecosystem. Based on a 3D printer board (MKS from Makerbase), BrailleRAP can emboss dots anywhere on a A4 sheet …

C64 Cartridge on a Stripboard

“In this article I’ll explain how to make a self-booting cartridge for the Commodore 64 using an 8-bit microcontroller on a stripboard. Background People ask me why the Commodordion boots from a tape drive emulator, which takes a couple …

CPU clock module (with single step)

“Simplified version of Ben Eater’s breadboard clock with chip count reduced from 6 to 3. I use this clock with my 6502 and Z80 projects. Simplified version of Ben Eater’s Clock Module For experimenting with retro CPUs like …

Hardware CI Arena

“We develop Electric UI with standardised hardware targets to iterate quickly with common ‘known good’ hardware. During testing on some internal projects, we would occasionally discover differences in device discovery behaviour, connection reliability, and even found a few minor bugs …

How to Make a Raspberry Pi Pico Bluetooth Control Car

“A Raspberry Pi Pico Project. In this project, we will utilize a Bluetooth module receiver to receive commands from mobile. Based on the received commands, the car will perform corresponding actions. For instance, pressing the forward button on the mobile …

Project  piccoloBASIC

piccoloBASIC

“A BASIC interpreter for the Raspberry Pi Pico (i.e. BASIC for microcontrollers) Features - Let, if, print, for, goto, gosub - String variables (let z$=”hello”) - Floating point numbers and variables (let z#=1.234) - Builtin functions [zero, randint, not, time …

Seven-Segment Display Do it Yourself

“By soldering separate LEDs together and using Charlieplexing you can control the display with only four digital pins. Usually, when you need some numerical output, it takes you at least seven pins of your microcontroller (except you use a display …

Space Invaders On the Uno R4 WiFi LED Matrix

“A quick and dirty space invaders game for the Uno R4 WiFi LED Matrix I wrote a simple version of Space Invaders for the Uno R4 WiFi! It uses 3 pushbuttons connected between GND and A0, A1, and A2 for …