Category Archives: Digital

Everything and anything related to digital electronics

Mini Museum: Punched Cards

Posted on 2022-09-26 by M. Eric Carr

Data was once stored on punched cards, which allowed for direct manual data entry. Continue reading →

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Mini Museum: Player Piano Scroll

Posted on 2022-09-05 by M. Eric Carr

Player Piano scrolls — digital music is even older than digital computers! Continue reading →

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Mini Museum: Morse Telegraph Relay

Posted on 2022-08-23 by M. Eric Carr

A Morse 4-C relay from circa 1900 is investigated and made to work again, driven by a modern microcontroller. Continue reading →

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Quadrature Encoders

Posted on 2022-06-30 by M. Eric Carr

Quadrature rotary encoders are inexpensive and very easy to wire up. Here’s how to use them with interrupts in Arduino C for ESP32. Continue reading →

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