Air Conditioner wiring color codes (Central Air Conditioning)
I posted this to respond to a question, but it's good, so I blogged it. In air conditioning language: The labels you will find inside the machines are the first letter of the alleged wire color in comm...
View ArticleDIY Pong - Part 1 of 4 - Getting Started
Remember the old TV Pong game? This is one of the early video games where you played a simulated version of ping-pong on a video screen. Screen shot Video Game Demo We built this on a breadboard for...
View ArticleDIY Pong - Part 2 of 4 -The Paddles
The Paddles The two paddles (or bats) are identical. The paddle is dead simple. For each paddle, we need to define its horizontal position on the screen and how thick it is. These two values are fixed...
View ArticleDIY Pong - Part 3 of 4 -The Ball
The ball is the tricky part. The vertical motion of the ball is constrained by the floor and ceiling of the video screen. This is the easy part. A triangular waveform generator is used to output an...
View ArticleDIY Pong - Part 4 of 4 - The Play
This is the final part of my four-part DIY Pong blog. We now have all the ingredients in place to wrap this up. We have bats and a ball. Let's play ball. Single Player Mode To make things simple, let's...
View ArticleSingle Stage MOD2 Counters Virtual Comparison
Pre notice: the following has some numeric values listed that are to be taken with certain respect as the LT Spice (used to derive those numbers) uses an equitable , say a "P/N-MosFet-s" , to form it's...
View ArticleOp Amp -- Level translation -- Referencing difference of the INP voltages to...
although it's quite basic and simple stuff -- then some while ago i actually managed not to see it as such , in a particular app , where the difference of the input voltages had to be referenced to...
View ArticlePart 1: Introducing the Omega2
Over the next few blogs and days I will delve into some simple programming examples on the Omega2 single chip computer. Introduction Omega2 and Omega2+ are made by Onion. These replace the original...
View ArticlePart 2: Omega2 - Blink LED
If you have managed to successfully setup your Omega2 as described in Part 1 of this series, here is where the fun begins. The goal when getting started on a new microcontroller system is to: get the...
View ArticlePart 3 : Omega2 UART
How to send text data over the UART TX Data line, and other things When developing an embedded microcontroller (MCU) system it is essential to be able to monitor the status and progress of your code...
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