An Experiment in Drying Washed PCBs

When assembling PCBs they get quite dirty, a majority of this dirt is flux, it can be sticky and can caramelise onto the board. This is especially true when drag soldering through-hole with a knife…

Coding an MSP430 From the Linux Command Line

The MSP430 is a 16bit microcontroller made by Texas Instruments. As with many other embedded platforms I’ve been doing some work with it recently. In particular I started with the MSP-EXP430F…

Emulating PPC32 Linux in x86_64 Linux

I’ve recently needed to do some porting work for a PPC32 CPU running Linux. At the time I didn’t have any PPC hardware (I’ve since acquired a PowerMac G5). Of course when we don&#…

Soldering Workbench Tour

Over the past couple of years I have been upgrading the soldering equipment that I used to mostly repair Amigas and build new Amiga parts. Today I’m going to go through what I use and why I d…

800MIPS Amiga With Emu68 and PiStorm

Unfortunately life took over in the last few months and I haven’t been able to keep up with the speed of changes of PiStorm to relay them to you in a weekly format. I have, however, been play…

Making a CAN bus module work with a Raspberry Pi

For some upcoming projects I need to have a working CAN bus to play with. On one end I have my Linux laptop with a USB CAN bus module. On the other end I bought a cheap module which claimed to be R…