Hackaday (unofficial) February 20, 2024 5:00pm Pi Pico Enhances RadioShack Computer Kit #classichacks #microcontrollers #clock #computertrainer #pipico #radioshack #raspberrypi #relay #texasinstruments #tms1100 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pi Pico Enhances RadioShack Computer Kit While most of us now remember Radio Shack as a store that tried to force us to buy batteries and cell phones whenever we went to buy a few transistors and other circuit components, for a time it wa…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 25, 2024 7:00am Upgrading At Least One Component of a TI Calculator #batteryhacks #battery #boostconverter #chargecontroller #lipo #lithiumpolymer #retrofit #texasinstruments #ti #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Upgrading At Least One Component Of A TI Calculator Even though Texas Instruments were the first company to produce an integrated circuit and a microprocessor, their success as a company in the 60s and 70s was not guaranteed. At the time there wasn&…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 13, 2024 4:00am The Early History Of The Microcontroller: It Came From Texas #retrocomputing #microcontroller #texasinstruments #tms1000 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Early History Of The Microcontroller: It Came From Texas Although for most generations alive today the era of microcontrollers (MCU) feels like it starts somewhere with the Intel 8051 and AVR MCUs, the history of these self-contained computing marvels th…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 7, 2023 7:00pm Perfecting the Pulse Oximeter #medicalhacks #wearablehacks #analogdevices #biohack #max30001 #maximintegrated #photoplethysmography #pulseoximeter #texasinstruments #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Perfecting The Pulse Oximeter We’re always looking for interesting biohacks here on Hackaday, and this new research article describing a calibrated pulse oximeter for different skin tones really caught our attention. Puls…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 18, 2022 9:00pm An Oscilloscope Trigger For Vintage Video Processors #retrocomputing #videohacks #lm1881 #ntsc #oscilloscope #retrocomputer #texasinstruments #tms9918 #tms9918aa #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An Oscilloscope Trigger For Vintage Video Processors Working on retro computers is rarely straightforward, as [ukmaker] recently found out while designing a new display interface. Their oscilloscope was having trouble triggering on the video signal p…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 23, 2022 4:00pm Exploring Texas Instrument’s Forgotten CPU #retrocomputing #cpu #intel #kenshirriff #texasinstruments #ti #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Exploring Texas Instrument’s Forgotten CPU Texas Instruments isn’t the name you usually hear associated with the first microprocessor. But the TI TMX 1795 was an 8008 chip produced months before the 8008. It was never available commer…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 3, 2022 6:00pm Flashing TI Chips with an ESP #microcontrollers #browser #cc #esp32 #flashing #library #microcontroller #programming #server #texasinstruments #ti #wifi #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Flashing TI Chips With An ESP Texas Instruments is best known to the general public for building obsolete calculators and selling them at extraordinary prices to students, but they also build some interesting (and reasonably-pr…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 18, 2022 6:00am Talking to a Texas Instruments Calculator #teardown #arm #ce #port #programming #python #test #texasinstruments #ti84 #z80 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Talking To A Texas Instruments Calculator Texas Instruments is a world-class semiconductors company, but unfortunately what they are best known for among the general public is dated consumer-grade calculators thanks to entrenched standardi…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 1, 2021 9:00am Hacking an Obsolete Yet Modern Calculator #computerhacks #retrocomputing #calculator #retro #texasinstruments #ti #ti84 #ticalcorg #z80 #zshell #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hacking An Obsolete Yet Modern Calculator The gold standard for graphing calculators, at least in the US, are the Texas Instruments TI-84 series. Some black sheep may have other types, but largely due to standardized testing these calculat…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 1, 2021 12:00pm New Part Day: DLP300s The Next Big Thing For Low Cost Resin Printing? #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #3dresinprinter #anycubicphoton #dlpprinter #texasinstruments #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 New Part Day: DLP300s The Next Big Thing For Low Cost Resin Printing? The majority of non-SLA resin 3D printers, certainly at the hacker end of the market, are most certainly LCD based. The SLA kind, where a ultraviolet laser is scanner via galvanometers over the bui…
Dr. Roy Schestowitz August 12, 2021 2:38am Paid-for #openwashing "Sponsored by #TexasInstruments " https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21171212/texas-instruments-simplify-embeddedsystem-development-with-opensource-software