So we’ve finally got our second semester project briefs and it has been declared that we need to build a half duplex one direction communication system! Obviously, as its a project given by the university, it can’t be as easy as sending USART down a cable and receiving it, requiring pretty much no effort… at […]
4×4 Font Well! With the advent of multiple new LCDs to test out, I decided to challenge myself to designing a 4×4 font, a pretty grim task if I’m honest. A 4×4 font with good byte packing could store the whole font set from character 32 to character 127 in 190 bytes. Note that for […]
Wahooooo! Exams are over, term starts next week and I’m free other than a few nights out with me chums over the next few days. In the meantime, today brought the arrival of my first ever DSO (Hantek DSO5072P) and a new LCD (the other LCD came a couple of days back but that comes […]
With my final exam looming over the next two days, on power supply electronics, I decided to actually apply the knowledge I learnt for once to design a COMPLETELY makeshift boost converter for a high power LED I’d purchased previously (http://goo.gl/zFooZK – Link will expire!). I don’t really see the use for me to have […]
Upon my return to Nottingham, I’ve been able to go down to the local RS counter and order new parts! Those new parts were the final little nuggets required for my current smart watch – ESD protection diodes and a micro SD holder! New arrivals! I’ve been waiting all Christmas to get these parts so […]
Wooooooooo! I hope you all had a lovely new year, where ever you are in the world! Just a big thank you to all of you for helping me reach 10k views! It’s great that people are so interested in Electronics and I’m really happy that people are hopefully finding my blog useful. If you […]
Wahooo! After a lovely christmas visit from the girlfriend, I can get round to applying my new postal arrivals – some 680nF capacitors, some 100nF capacitors and some 10M resistors; the last few items required to get the LCD working. Full backlight brightness with status LED’s in saw and triangle modes. All that is left […]
So I’ve made a post previously about a simple dithering algorithm I made dependent on pixel brightness density over an image. I recently thought of going back to that and applying to video and here is my result! The video itself says it all really! My data flow is: Read a raw AVI file into […]
Hey all! Sorry for the lack of updates lately, second year really takes it out of you! Exams start in January and its time for my break over Christmas. I just want to thank you all for all the views over this past year (nearly!), I’m already sitting near 9k! For such a niche subject, […]
ShockSoc Trike Presentation and Team Roles – 19/11/14.
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