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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …