Anyone check out these new standalone "Active EMI Filters" from TI yet? I find their description... intriguing.
https://www.ti.com/power-management/power-supply-filter/products.html
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So, eventually, I could that Call A.P.P.L.E has an old software list that contains a disk image of the "Basic Connectivity Set." Which contains a bunch of System 7 tools and a single System 6 INIT.
But, ClarisWorks still says the toolbox isn't installed, even with that INIT.
Then. I found out that Zterm doesn't rely on it.
So, that gets me where I was going.
Replaced spinning rust platters with @BlueSCSI.
And now I can get to important work.
(This is not the Macintosh with the bombed logic board.)
@48kRAM Caught your NABU Unboxing VOD just now. Thanks for doing it. This is the first one I saw.
Those surface mount ceramics were probably an early monolithic design. So same cap as a disc, just rectangular. Also, we take standardized case sizes for granted today. I have an app note from the early 1980s that uses some snark about this surface mount fad.
Check out lcamtuf's latest 8-bit handheld game: Sir Box-a-lot.
It's Sokoban running on an AVR128DA with an RGB OLED screen.
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/mcu-land-part-7-life-in-full-color
He's also done some other "handheld" games in the past.
Incredible work.
Friday 2/24 Stream: More work on the Apple IIc Schematic in KiCad! Now on Twitch and YouTube (again). https://baldengineer.com/live
you know how the rev A 6502 from 1975 had a bug in ROR? turns out not to be true. https://youtu.be/Uk_QC1eU0Fg
I get to hang out with amazing makers Becky Stern and Allie Weber on a livestream to celebrate Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. DigiKey is sponsoring and we'll be building a cool project (with LEDs!)
📆 February 23
⏰ 5:30 pm CST
This is a amazing!!! There is in fact a a fixed-width version of comic sans.
Comic-Mono
https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
Now... how to embed it in stackexchange???
Sega's Gear Gear (VA1) is now available in the Bit Preserve Repo.
And it's a KiCad 7 schematic!
https://github.com/baldengineer/bit-preserve/tree/master/Sega/Game%20Gear
Here are some of the things I noticed in KiCad 7. What are your favorite improvements or new features?
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