Joey's Electronics Projects

For a couple of projects I want to work on in the next few months I will need to use EEPROMs. Another member at our hackerspace I have been...

For Halloween I decided to put some LEDs controlled by an MSP430 on a sombrero. Unfortunately, I did not finish in time to take it to the...

For a year or two I have been thinking about making a brainfuck computer out of 7400 series logic. Homebrew computers made out of logic chi...

Back in March I finished the microcontroller comparison of a few chips I was considering using. The 8051 based chips all fared poorly in B...

So I have not updated my blog in a while. Grad school is keeping me pretty busy. Most of what I do with electronics now is related to the l...

Lately I haven't had much time to work on hobby projects but I did manage to do a few things. Sometimes for debugging I use an LED if t...

After I got my new Hakko FX-888, the first thing I did was solder the trainer to perfboard. It took some time to get used to the new iron b...