One Day Build
DMX512 Data Rate “Limiter”
Final assembly on variboard
The Problem
You get what you pay for. So if you pay squat, you get squat.
In my case, we bought super cheap LED spots to light our small-ish techno parties via DMX512. The money saved went into a pretty neat and modern lighting console. The result is that the cheap LED spots can’t keep up with data rate of the not-so-cheap console. Which causes the LED spots to do exactly … diddly-squat.
New Toy #2 – An Old Machine
Gravity hates me
Lab Fuckery of the Week #5
70V AC, 93.7V DC, 240mA on the clamp meter.
When you can’t regulate the DC, regulate the AC.
No school like the old school.
New Toy – The Sequel
Previously on DIY-HomeWorks: Plexus got a nice little prototyping board from his buddy Skwit. Little did he know that it would bring him two weeks full of wonder, excitement and tedious bug fixing.
16bit GPIO Testbed. It went from this …
Power Pegs // Mark II
Pro Version
New Toy
The ARM-Cortex SoC Microcontroller from Cypress.
To be precise, I got a prototyping board with that µC. It’s almost weird to call it a microcontroller. But that’s what Cypress calls it, so, whatever.
Big thanks to a good friend of mine who sent it to me.
That’s the thing:
PSoC 4200M-Series Prototyping Kit
Lab Fuckery of the Week #4
LC80 Fun
The LC80 was a Z80 based training computer from East Germany. It was introduced somewhere around 1985, but had a short life due to the German reunion. It was discontinued immediately.
Me – being the dinosaur that I am – can’t keep my fingers away from ancient technology. So I embarked on a quest to revive this thing and have a heap of fun with it.
One of the ROMs under investigation