ereg, Matt Jenkins Pulse Rifle: One step closer Great news: the new test boards for my even smaller pulse rifle boards have now arrived. I'm just waiting on a couple of components to arrive (should be here in the next day or so), and then I can bui... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins New pulse rifle design update 1 So the new boards have been made, and are on their way over from China. They should be with me within about a week, at which point it'll be a case of building one, then creating new firmware for it, t... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins Pesky supply chains So one of the main chips that I use all the time on many of my products has suddenly vanished off the shelves. Last week I bought some and there were plenty around. This week I go to buy some and bam ... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins My Pi 4 Experiences The Pi 4 has been released, found wanting, redesigned, and re-released (in typical Raspberry fashion). And finally I have my hands on one. So, do I think it's any good? Well, yes and no. First impress... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins Hacking the Tenma 72-14110 Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator USB Protocol I recently added a Tenma 72-14110 signal generator to my array of lab equipment. This handy waveform generator has quite a nice array of functions, such as the normal waveform generators, up to 5MHz, ... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins How I cross-compile a fat binary cross-compiler for OS X Big Sur I have been tasked with creating a new compiler for chipKIT. One of the big things this compiler must do is work on new versions of OS X. That means Big Sur. And that means supporting both x86_64 and ... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins More ESP8266 Hacking - LOHAS LED Yes, I have hacked another ESP8266-based device. This time it's the LOHAS WiFi Smart LED lightbulb. These are really quite nice bulbs, and available on Amazon pretty cheaply. Internally there is your ... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins Pulse Rifle Counter with Sound I have been spending the past couple of days prototyping up a new version of my Micro Pulse Rifle (uPR) counter board. This one has sound. I had a brainwave the other day. Instead of designing a two-u... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins Another Easy ESP8266 Hack - LED Strip Driver Today's ESP8266 hack is another rather easy one. This time it's a very cheap LED RGB strip driver from Amazon. Well, I say ESP8266. In fact this one uses the ESP8285, which is basically an ESP8266 wit... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins What is it with the ESP8266? The ESP8266 is everywhere now. Whenever you buy some cheap Chinese (or even expensive non-Chinese) IoT device, like a WiFi power switch, a WiFi connected lightbulb, or whatever, you can pretty much gu... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins Common Arduino Errors and Warnings This is my attempt to collate and explain the most common errors and warnings you get when compiling code for the Arduino and Arduino-like boards. Errors Expected primary expression before '.' token T... 24 May 2023
ereg, Matt Jenkins Windows versions ranked by usability This is my list of windows versions that I rank by my opinion of their usability and abilities "of their time". That is, not ranked by comparing them to current standards, but comparing them purely by... 24 May 2023