Category Archives: Digital

Everything and anything related to digital electronics

PIC output characteristics

Posted on 2013-10-31 by M. Eric Carr

Output waveforms from a PIC are analyzed, in order to determine its response to various R/C loads for a serial bus network. Continue reading →

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The Making of Pitfall

Posted on 2013-06-28 by M. Eric Carr

The story behind the making of Activision’s Pitfall on the Atari 2600 is fascinating. Here is true programming genius! Continue reading →

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Arduino on Steroids

Posted on 2013-04-18 by M. Eric Carr

The Teensy 3.0 is a cool little dev board. It’s Arduino-compatible (from a software perspective, anyway), breadboardable, and only about $20US. It also runs a 48MHz, 32-bit Arm processor, making it not only easy to use, but a speed demon. … Continue reading →

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I Have Seen Nirvana, And It Is In Shenzhen…

Posted on 2013-03-19 by M. Eric Carr

The world’s largest electronics component market is in Shenzhen, PRC — and it is awesome! Continue reading →

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