Chip tester

I have (order year ago) TTL chip tester TES200. Not well from my point of view because support limited sets of chips. I think about new one, found several variants. TES200 (I have) TrolSoft - very good variant but too expensive from my point of view (aprox. 100 usd) Mega-IC-Tester - Opensource tester, based on arduino 2560. Cheap and usefull. Will try to build Mega-IC-tester. In case of unsuccessfull probably order one from TolSoft. ...

December 6, 2024

NES programming

Chance find in the internet. POST how to programm NES games in C

December 6, 2024

Schematic simulation

Several electronic schemas simulations programms Qucs_s caneda

December 5, 2024

Vacation at hospital

Yep, sometimes it happend, but better without this… ;`(

November 14, 2024

First boat

Have you try to build boat by ourself? I was try.. ;) But still not finish. Will inform when launch ;))) my progress schematic final version (should be)

October 20, 2024

China business trip

Four days business trip. Long long way to unknown territory.

October 10, 2024

Development js frontend

Pretty nice component framework (library) for js While talking with job seeker to our company some smart guy point me to shadcn component framework. Main site https://ui.shadcn.com/ github account https://github.com/shadcn-ui/ui Actually it really nice, put it into my bookmarks.

October 4, 2024

Download macos x installer

Short tips&hints additional. To check and download available macos x distribution you can use softwareupdate command list available images: softwareupdate --list-full-installers download selected image: softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 15.0.1 To make bootable flash disk: /Applications/Install\ macOS\ xxxxx.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/YYYY where xxxxx - macos system code name (i.e. Sequoia / Sonoma / Ventura / etc) and YYYYY - you flash drive current name You must have root privileges to run this command.

September 28, 2024

Dubai trip

Two weeks business trip. Too hot, too warm. Apple store (Dubai-mall)

September 10, 2024

Avrdude hints and tips

To programm avr microcontrollers require to have avrdude programm. It can update chip firmware using different programmators. To obtain avrdude sources visit github. To compile libusb will be also required. Libusb can be compiled in standard way, using configure script. OS architecture should be detected automatically, arm64 in my way. Avrdude use cmake scripts, to define OS architecture use follow command line: cmake -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64 -D CMAKE_C_FLAGS='-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0' -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -B build_darwin To flash firmware to microcontroller (atmega 323) use: ...

September 2, 2024