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Testing A Discrete Boost Converter Circuit
Experimenting With DIY Boost Converters
Some Disassembly Required
Building, Un-building and Re-building Things
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DIY Box and Pan Brake
Building an Advanced Sheet Metal Tool on the Cheap. Every trade has it’s own specialized tools. You can do good work with basic tools, but eventually you’ll want to get some of the specialized ones. Metal work has a wonderful variety of tools that are way too expensive for the amateur to justify buying. Building…
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Discrete VGA Graphics Adapter: Text Mode
Special Hardware for Plain old Text. Last time, I got my VGA circuit displaying an actual image. An off-color, artifact laden, not quite in the right place image, but an image nonetheless. Good enough to push the concept further, if nothing else. Text mode is exactly what it sounds like: a special mode for displaying…
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6502 Development: NOPerator Debugging Aid
A Very Simple 6502 Accessory That can Catch Very Complex bugs. Debugging is hard. Anyone who programs computers knows how hard it is to get stuff working reliably. Tiny oversights can lead to massive problems, often in ways that aren’t obvious. Patches get churned out on a daily basis. Hardware engineers have it much, much…
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