I had a vision.

Hm, shes coming along... need more parts though.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMES

...nothing is stopping me from making a fantasy cpu architecture and an interpreter... nothing...

practicing something

PBY-5a Catalina based Transformer(?)/Aeromorph

Its a quiet night

This is wonderful insanity... When your ARM powered Acorn RISC PC can have a second 486 DX4 100MHz CPU and run Windows 95 in its own window. Retro computing is so exciting dabbling with these things it truly is!

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Got this from an ewaste pile with a friend. Only broken part? 2 missing keycaps and cable cut to the case. Not proud of the solder job. Need to redoit sometime, when i have the right connector to crimp a new one.

I got a weird dog on my badge @odyn.bsky.social

Took a bit to figure out but i reckon this is a goodish way to gauge speed.

Oh yeah. Much faster. Reckon itd be even faster if using PIO to stream commands and data in.

Thinking on the next revision of my conbadge atm... Wonder if i should add the df player mini to it to add music capabilities. There are spare pins on the pico for uart.

Mistakes in code here and there, fixed =~=

Lcd arrived. Porfed testcode for it into fhe arduino ide. Works! Though i needed to bodge the backlight control. The distance between it and the board concern me a lil. Need to look into it to design a sort of spacer.

MS Flip Flop using the CMOS logic gates I made a while ago. Since it works, time to make a PCB with it all in one :p

So close to getting my Otter x16 somewhat luggable...

Is there some sort of list of popular and cheap components that hobbyists tend to use? I need to find power mosfets, both p and n channel, that can do 1a at least, whilst in preferable sot-23 or to-92 packaging. And probably able to be bought in bulk on aliexpress.

Ok so, I hooked up my inverter board to the wave generator on my scope. It's alot faster than I thought. Adding a capacitor across the power rails made it significantly less noisy too.

Seems like the rise/fall times of my CMOS inverter is slow at about 800us. Should mean I could only run them just above 1khz. Ah well.

YESSSSS

Agnus. Transforming Protogen design. Will have to polish her up soon.

Nand gate soldered and tested. Works!

Proved to work with the inverter.

Status LED works.

More of the boards arrived NAND and revised NOT gate are good, though I just realized the footprint I used for the led module is... Not the handsolder one. Balls.

I wonder if its possible to build a 65c816 computer on par with the C128, but with 74xx/4xxx logic... already trying to make a VGA card, once that's done its just the Sound, Peripherals and the chipset itself...

@popeyeotaku.bsky.social Yessss

The Commodore PET 🐇

Well the inverter works-

dog on my wall

Goodness these are tiny.

mmm. chalk.

Hm. Possibility of posting some chalk art i did. Will compile them later.

Since the move is going well, its time for a RAFFLE! 🟥 Must be Followed 🟥 Repost to help spread 🟥 (Optional) Shoot a ref in the comments :] WINNER WILL GET A SINGLE FULLBODY or DUO ART WITH AN AVAILABLE CHARACTER OF MINE :)

Just wish the LTC4010s didn't have a heat dissipation pad on the underside... I'd need either a hotplate, or order assembly on the battery boards. Both are costly, hotplate less so but risk of me bungling up a 16-20 dollar part would be higher...

Right, changing specs a good bit... LTC4010s cost 16 a piece, ain't no way I can get 6 or more of em. Just gonna stick with a 4S 2P D cell setup for a 4.8v 80Ah setup. I worry about discharge not being balanced but, meh, just gonna cut off at 4.4-4.6v. NiMHs stay p stable already.

Hmm, the 18M2 only has 256 bytes of program memory... worry about it not being enough to switch from a single high current SEPIC to two parallel ones with current sensing.

Where the fuck are the HY-2 Torroid Cores i need one but cant find any from a local supplier-

New start, might as well just make it known that I'll probably just, post nerd shit and rarely art. Been wanting to focus on my electronics projects for a while now. So have this awful idea.