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The LPC810 is a microcontroller from NXP, an ARM Cortex M0+ based microcontroller. NXP provide a dedicated IDE MCUXpresso which is based on Eclipse and is really easy to set up. The IDE is completely free but you need to register at their site in order tow download it. NXP main site can be found at https://www.nxp.com/ […]
My schematic was very similar to the one suggested by https://www.hwhardsoft.de/english/projects/simon-says/ with some minor changes related to the voltage regulator. Because I intended to get the PCB manufactured I needed to get some PCB design software. I used a piece of software called Fritzing which can be downloaded from fritzing.org for free. Once installed, learning to […]
When I starting doing some research I found one hundred and one Simon games for Arduino, but I also found this link which used the LPC810. https://www.hwhardsoft.de/english/projects/simon-says/ This was appealing because I had never used the LPC810 micro controller, and this would be something interesting to learn about , however I had visualised something a little […]
As a child I loved electronic games, and one of the first I remember playing was Simon made by Milton Bradley Electronics (MB Electronics) Details about the original game can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game) I own one of the original Simon games, which is still in perfect working order and boxed. Simon was a game my […]
I recently bought a Commodore 64 from ebay. In the bundle I got this Digicom Packet System. I know it was used by Ham Radio enthusiasts but have no clue how it works. I know the guy who used to own this Commodore 64 made this box from a kit. I think it is technically a […]
Ok the next stage is to get some actual code running. I found a code sample here. http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-tutorial-andrew-davie-08.html created a local file asmtest.asm Because I created a new terminal session I need to run these two commands again. export bB=~/Atari2600/bB export PATH=$PATH:$bB I used this command to compile. Joes-MBP:samples arkleyjoe$ dasm.Darwin.x86 asmtest.asm -I”$bB/includes” -f3 -lasmtest.list.txt […]
So the first task is to find an Atari 2600 emulator to run on my mac and a compiler. A little bit of googling lead me to Stella this page has a download for Mac. Stella could not be more simple. You run it, locate your .bin files and double click to run. It looks […]
I would like to develop a game for Atari 2600. I will develop this game on my Mac, although my goal is to get the game running on a real 2600 and potentially even have a real cartridge made. I have a basic idea in my mind. The game will essentially be an infinite running […]
My wife wanted to do some printing using a daisy wheel printer. I purchased a KX-WD55 Daisywheel Printer from ebay. I got ready to connect it up, only to realise that it was specifically designed to work with the KX-WL55 Word Processor Laptop and has a special proprietary connector I did not recognise. It is definitely […]
My bathroom mirror has a light inside of it. The bulb went and so I opened up the mirror to replace the it. Once opened I realised there were a huge amount of empty space and I thought about adding a bluetooth speaker set up inside. It took me about 2 days to complete the […]
