Category Archives: Electronics

Emulator Preventing Tricks

Posted on January 16, 2015 by e8johan

One application of reverse engineering is the creation of emulators of old systems. This is often done to preserve the technology and to address the lack of access to functioning hardware. One such system is the Game Boy Advance. Produced between … Continue reading →

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Reverser Engineering an IR Protocol

Posted on January 12, 2015 by e8johan

Reverse engineering is always an interesting technical challenge. Vincent and Mathieu from France used the AnalysIR equipment. This challenge was not only about understanding the protocols, but learning to generate checksums and how the various frames relate to each other. The … Continue reading →

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Quick and Dirty Charger

Posted on January 8, 2015 by e8johan

Here is a quick and dirty article telling you about a quick and dirty solar charger from jmp.no. It is a nice, simplistic hack to create a USB solar charger.

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Amazing Clock

Posted on January 6, 2015 by e8johan

Taking dead bug style electronics construction to new heights, The Clock project is a piece of art appreciable not only by engineers. The project is the creation of Gislain Benoit and took three years to design. He describes the project as … Continue reading →

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GertBot

Posted on November 20, 2014 by e8johan

Have a Raspberry Pi? Want to build a robot? Need to drive some engines? or thousands of LEDs? Then you will love the gertbot! The gertbot is a HAT-board for the Raspberry Pi that adds four H-bridges, two open-drain N-MOSFETs … Continue reading →

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lowRISC

Posted on August 6, 2014 by e8johan

The lowRISC project, based on Cambridge, is aiming to create an entirely open source hardware stack. This includes the SoC as well as the development board. The design is based around RISC-V, a 64-bit RISC instruction set architecture. It supports … Continue reading →

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Fritzing Contest

Posted on June 28, 2013 by e8johan

Over at Fritzing you can win EUR 500 from your design. Create a give away PCB for our  Fritzing-Kits and win 500 Euros cash ! It should be: interesting useful uncomplicated hyper-lightspeed Turn-Blink-Sound-Noise-Thing’a’Bob which we can ship with our kits. … Continue reading →

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The Voyager Computer

Posted on June 18, 2013 by e8johan

I like both spacecrafts and old computers. Here is a quote about the Voyager computers from the 1970’s. It is worth to think about what you can do with very little. I suppose the peripherals where more analog and less … Continue reading →

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Rhombus-Tech

Posted on May 27, 2013 by e8johan

Rhombus-Tech is a CIC company working on various hardwares for running open source software. They are involved in a number of interesting projects, one of them being the KDE tablet. Their site makes an interesting read and they carry lots … Continue reading →

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Capacative Touch

Posted on February 15, 2013 by e8johan

Adafruit is a great resource for may electronic projects. One of my favorite parts is their focus on wearable electronics. Gizmos with LEDs and speakers have been around for a while. You can even get them from Thinkgeek. However, capacitive … Continue reading →

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