PIC32MZ Iomega ZIP100 Parallel Port Emulator [Part 2: LPT100 Hardware Design]
A few months after successfully getting Super 8086 Box, DOSBox-X, and QEMU to emulate an Iomega ZIP100 parallel-port ZIP drive,
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PIC32MZ Iomega ZIP100 Parallel Port Emulator [Part 1: DOSBox & QEMU Testing]
In early 2023 my beloved Iomega ZIP100 parallel port drive started to randomly eject disks. I figured that the drive
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Exploring MSX-DOS and CP/M on OneChipBook FPGA-powered laptop
The OneChipBook, available on AliExpress for around $200, is a very interesting FPGA-powered laptop with 32MB RAM, a 10-inch 1024×768
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Internet access from Pocket 386 retro laptop using Wemos D1 ESP8266 serial Wifi adapter
Although there is a USB port on the Pocket 386, I seldom use it for file transfer. The device driver,
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dsMP3, my LW/MW/FM/SW radio with MP3 recording/playback [Part 2 – Firmware Design]
UPDATE (May 2025) – Check out Hackaday’s write-up of the dsMP3 project here In my previous post I described how
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dsMP3, my LW/MW/FM/SW radio with MP3 recording/playback [Part 1 – Hardware Design]
UPDATE (May 2025) – Check out Hackaday’s write-up of the dsMP3 project here Wondering why even high-end multiband radios such
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Integrating FatFs FAT filesystem module with CH375/CH376 USB controller
In a recent embedded project, I need to access data stored on a USB thumb drive using a dsPIC33EP512MC502. As
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Emulating EEPROM using flash memory on dsPIC33EP512MC502
One thing I don’t like about the dsPICEE3P (and the PIC32MX) lines is that these devices do not have EEPROM
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Software Real Time Clock (RTC) for the dsPIC33EP512MC502
Although the dsPIC33EP512MC502 does not have an integrated Real Time Clock (RTC) for time keeping, this can easily be overcome by configuring
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16-bit stereo audio DAC on dsPIC33FJ128GP802
The dsPIC33FJ128GP802 is among the few devices in the dsPIC33F family that have an integrated 16-bit stereo DAC module. The DAC can be
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Measuring temperature using the dsPIC Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU)
In an attempt to save an I/O pin originally used for the DHT11 to measure ambient temperature in one of my
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USB flash drives on 8-bit ISA bus using CH375 ISA to USB adapter
I purchased the CH375 ISA to USB adapter from Taobao, hoping for an easier way to transfer files to my
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English text to speech on a PIC microcontroller
I have always been a fan of the TTS256 – a tiny but great English text-to-speech IC based on a
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LD3320 Chinese Speech Recognition and MP3 Player Module
UPDATED (March 2018): A better English version of the datasheet can be found here. After my previous success in getting
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SYN6288 Chinese Speech Synthesis Module
When searching eBay for a text to speech IC equivalent to the TTS256, I came across the SYN6288, a cheap
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