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Improving A Discrete Boost Converter Circuit
Fixing Up A Boost Converter Design
Some Disassembly Required
Building, Un-building and Re-building Things
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Modular Monitor: Serial Terminals, Hardware Bugs, and You
Connecting the 6502 to a Serial Terminal Turned Out to be Harder Than Expected. When I designed my minimal 6502 development board, I made plenty of concessions to keep the project feasible. A lot of my grandiose ideas for it turned out to be impractical, but I’m still using it. Why not? It’s still a…
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Multipurpose BLDC Motor Controller: A (Difficult) Learning Experience
Designing Your Own BLDC Controller is Harder Than it Looks You don’t go too far these days without running into a brushless DC (BLDC) motor. Compared to brushed DC motors or AC motors, the BLDC motor has a lot of advantages- in many ways the BLDC motor manages to combine the advantages of both AC…
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Hexadecimal Value Display for 16 Bit Logic Input
Designing and Building a Hexadecimal Display for Small Computer and Logic Projects. I do digital design regularly, and it’s occasionally real handy to take a group of signals (e.g. an address bus) and display them. I don’t have a lot of great tools to do that though. Ordinarily I’d hook up my logic analyzer. That…
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