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Index The story so far… The goal Input Storage Media Audio Credits where credits is due! The hardware Download uSVC KiCad design files A 9-bit console? To be continued… The story so far… Last year, uChip was presented and, to… (READ MORE)
If you ever had the necessity to capture HDMI to USB, you’ll know that nowadays there are cheap HDMI to USB capture dongles available in Amazon, Aliexpress or Ebay, that allow to record your HDMI stream to your PC, using… (READ MORE)
Introduction A VGA output might come in handy for a number of applications, such as a terminal/monitor or, why not, a videogame console, which is, by the way, the final goal of this library : – ) So far, there… (READ MORE)
Introduction In a previous article we dealt with the problem of interfacing a 5V output signal to a 3.3V system. In this article we cover the opposite problem: we have a 3.3V output and we need to drive a 5V… (READ MORE)
Introduction The Arduino Zero made quite popular the ATSAMD21 microcontroller, which was later adopter by a number of other compatible boards like Adafruit’s Feather M0 or Itaca-Innovation’s uChip. The SAMD21 is a 48-MHz Cortex M0+, with hardware multiplier, a nice… (READ MORE)
Introduction (tl;dr. source code and KiCAD project at the end of this page!) Although we were born in the 8 bit era, our first computer was an Amiga 500. It was a glorious 16-bit machine, and it featured stunning graphics… (READ MORE)
Introduction In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, being able of controlling everything is becoming more and more requested. The most common example is the home automation: one would like to control for instance lights, the gates, and even appliances…. (READ MORE)
Introduction Hi there! Last time we finally managed to get the Arduino playing a 20 fps (or more) 16-bit per pixel 160×128 video from an SD card. Is our journey finished? Of course not. We promised you a full audio+video,… (READ MORE)
One major problem of rechargeable batteries is that they cannot be completely depleted, without actually damaging them. And many flashlights are thought for disposable batteries, where you want to use even the last drop of energy. If you use rechargeable… (READ MORE)
Many times we must interface 5V to 3.3V devices. This occurs very frequently on Arduino, but also other applications may need 5V to 3.3V ICs or systems to communicate. In many cases, some sort of logic level shifter/translation/conversion circuitry might… (READ MORE)