Analog Video From An 8-Bit Microcontroller

Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was effectively the only display available. It’s an analog display for an analog…

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It was my birthday and my sister got me a "computery thingy toy".

Not an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi.

Seems to be a C8051F330 development board.

Interesting!!!

#microcontroller
#C8051F330

πŸ˜ƒ May this produce joy for some!
#reverseengineering completed now by finding a pattern to light all six LEDs with 3 driver pins. I've put it into a drawing, together with a schematic: each driver pin is connected to four LED pins (two anodes and two cathodes). To leave an individual #LED dark, in its time slot leave one or both drivers high-Z.
They used 5V for the #microcontroller and blue LEDs, because of their forward voltage >2.5V.

They took 200Β΅s per time slot: overall period of 1.2ms.

And finally, there's a new Espressif ESP-IDF out - with a new and more compact standard C library, an Installation Manager that makes setup easier and can manage multiple installations side-by-side, and more!

...including a Model Context Protocol server for those who would prefer to have the Plagiarism Machine write their code for them. Ugh.

https://www.hackster.io/news/espressif-s-esp-idf-6-0-brings-a-new-installation-manager-mcp-server-and-a-new-standard-c-library-b4258de71662

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Espressif's ESP-IDF 6.0 Brings a New Installation Manager, MCP Server, and a New Standard C Library

The latest release also brings with it some breaking changes, so make sure to check the migration guide before updating.

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Right, about to lock my focus on a newsletter I need to get written by the end of the day - so let's procrastinate just a little longer with today's #Hackster round-up.

First up: a fantastic, but pricey, physical Conway's Game of Life board - built using a cheap microcontroller connected to a large number of expensive self-illuminating tactile switches.

https://www.hackster.io/news/michal-lcamtuf-zalewski-s-conway-s-game-of-life-board-packs-hundreds-of-dollars-in-switches-402b1bf53759

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MichaΕ‚ "lcamtuf" Zalewski's Conway's Game of Life Board Packs Hundreds of Dollars in Switches

Self-illuminating LED switches, at $3 a throw, make up the bulk of the bill of materials for this physical life sim.

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Then a new product from Seeed Studio, the reTerminal D1001 - an 8" full-colour smart touchscreen display with an Espressif ESP32-P4 at its heart.

https://www.hackster.io/news/seeed-studio-targets-next-gen-hmi-with-the-espressif-esp32-p4-powered-reterminal-d1001-cd9cf0005a86

#Technology #News #Hackster #IoT #Displays #Microcontroller

Seeed Studio Targets Next-Gen HMI with the Espressif ESP32-P4-Powered reTerminal D1001

8" full-color touchscreen and integrated camera connect to Espressif's powerful dual-core P4 β€” with a C6 as a communications chip.

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New embedded #Rust video is out! I cover test-driven development (#TDD) by showing how to use Rust's built-in test framework with the sensor library we wrote in a previous episode. Check it out!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7q4WYA9qVY

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