One might think, and experienced hardware creators would know one would be wrong, that when the PCBs come in you can populate them and everything will work just fine.
The PCBs I ordered were exactly what I had requested but …
Category Archives: CoCo
“Buttoning” up the prototype
UPDATE: There are some major errors in all 3 PCB designs that were found after testing so I would not use them. I removed the links to help remove temptation.
After getting the potentiometers to work as expected I was …
So many broken things but now fixed.
It has been quite a while since the last post and the reason is that I just could not get two chips working on the same SPI bus until now. I had the basics right but a few different things …
And the numbers go up and down, or testing a voltage divider.
One of the steps of building the hardware and software solution is to learn how to drive the IC you want to use from an Arduino. The first piece I worked on was the MCP41010 digital potentiometer.
When learning to …
A PCB was needed
I had been planning to use a DIN 6 pigtail to connect the bread boarded adapter to my coco but then I noticed I had a DIN 6 to DIN 6 cable and the DIN 6 sockets I planned to …
Kicking off project and Planning
I’ve had a project in the back of my mind for a while now and with the Coco Crew holding a CocoFest contest it was the perfect time to start it. Joysticks for the Coco may not be rare now …
Power switch for CoCo 3
Last year I purchased a CoCo 3 and accessories and thrown in with the package were two other CoCo 3’s that were “not working”. One of them had a poorly seated GIME chip and the other had a really crusty …
Cyclone and the ESP8266
Today I started trying to figure out WIFI on the Cyclone CoCo. I am using the newly updated version of Cyclone that supports FAT32 formatted SD cards. The first step is to extract the below two files to the root …
CoCo on a chip
So that I don’t lose track of what I have done I am going to start posting the steps I’ve gone through to get my CoCo on a Chip working.
CoCo on a Chip is a re-implementation of the Tandy …