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The future is... $0.01 CPUs made of plastic Only about as many gates as 4004 but at least they'll be cheap! https://spectrum.ieee.org/plastic-microprocessor |
Monday, 20 June 2022 - 17:23 |
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MPLABX disappeared? (thinks: is this the right forum for questions about MPLABX? - perhaps the forum name needs to be more general) So I don't like MPLABX but there is the odd... |
Thursday, 16 June 2022 - 12:49 |
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Solderable breadboards - thoughts? I am thinking about making a permanent layout but doing an actual PCB (even with the likes of JLPCB) is a bit beyond me so my "goto" from days gone by would have been veroboard/... |
Thursday, 12 May 2022 - 17:02 |
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Wokwi - amazing Arduino simulator So I was just watching... https://youtu.be/sFGsYZ0Hszk (which is already pretty amazing - love the idea of display bound to a pot!) But do... |
Saturday, 7 May 2022 - 19:11 |
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Sinclair Spectrum - 40th Anniversary Not sure if this is "General Electronics" (in a sense I think it is) or just "Off Topic"? Anyway on Saturday just gone the Sinclair Spectrum reached its 40th... |
Monday, 25 April 2022 - 16:27 |
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Fat fingers? Next time I see three 128x64 OLED (I2C driven) on Amazon for just £7 I should probably get a better idea of exactly what 0.96" will really mean! I know I have fat... |
Monday, 4 April 2022 - 21:29 |
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Amazing video : "pong" CPU It may be 17 minutes but it's well worth watching this entire thing.. https://youtu.be/7A1SzIIKMho Quite an interesting approach to making your own "pong"... |
Thursday, 31 March 2022 - 20:12 |
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World's smallest Linux computer Nothing to do with AVR but I just thought this was amazing... https://twitter.com/mangopi_sbc/... That's an entire Linux SBC and it's the size of an SD... |
Tuesday, 29 March 2022 - 18:15 |
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Newbie electronics question: ADC/pots If you are buying pots to use as knobs read by ADC how do you decide the resistance: 5K, 10K, 50K, 100K, etc? Presumably (because you connect the outer ends to Vcc and Gnd... |
Friday, 25 March 2022 - 15:49 |
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Just when you thought the global chip shortage couldn't get worse I hope this tweet is not correct or large parts of the tech industry could be doomed in the short term. https://twitter.com/MusicTechMag... ... |
Monday, 14 March 2022 - 17:05 |
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One for the analog engineers I'm a major YouTube fan, perhaps watch 2..3 hours each day. It pushes ideas based on what it knows are my interests. Sometimes it gets things a little wrong like this.. ... |
Friday, 4 March 2022 - 22:26 |
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Important avrdude news A new version and a new home... https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/12/24/avrdude-6-4-released-now-transitioning-to-github/ |
Saturday, 25 December 2021 - 16:16 |