Articles

Aug 25, 2025
Retro ROMming with RP2350 5V Tolerant GPIOs
Aug 19, 2025
Airfrog - how it gives root access to ARM MCUs
Aug 12, 2025
Airfrog: Tiny sub-$5 wireless co-processor for ARM MCUs
Aug 5, 2025
🦀60 lines of Rust - STM32 GPIOs and Interrupts
Jul 29, 2025
🤖💪 Human vs Compiler - ARM cycle level ARM assembly optimization
Jul 22, 2025
Automatically Hot-Swapping ROMs in Real-Time ⚡ Software Defined Retro ROM
Jul 15, 2025
Replace 3 retro ROMs with a single software ROM - how?! 🤯
Jul 8, 2025
How it's done - Software Defined ROMs
Jul 1, 2025
Software Defined Retro ROM - ultimately flexible replacement ROM
Jun 17, 2025
$1 LM323K from aliexpress - Bargain or POS? 💰⚡
Jun 10, 2025
🔧 Modding my 2040 disk drive - Floppies Rock! 💾
Jun 3, 2025
💾 4040 #1 Part 1 - It was supposed to be so easy! - Floppies Rock! 🔧
May 27, 2025
💾 How to Replace a Failed 6530 in a Commodore IEEE Disk Drive - Floppies Rock! 🔧
May 20, 2025
💾 New! - IEEE Disk Drive Diagnostics ROM Features - 2040/3040/4040 🛠️
May 13, 2025
🚀 Highest possible ⏱️ clock speeds with bare metal STM32F103 programming
May 6, 2025
Piers reaches the end of his tether - 💾8050💾 part 1
Apr 29, 2025
📡Remotely controlling a PET, using Linux and GPIB/IEEE-488
Apr 22, 2025
🔄 Turn a 6502 Into a 6504: DIY Processor Replacement 💻 | floppies rock
Apr 15, 2025
🔥 Disk Drive From Hell: Battling a Commodore 3040 DOS 1 Drive 💾 | floppies rock
Apr 8, 2025
💾 Brand new Commodore IEEE Disk Drive Diagnostic ROM | floppies rock
Apr 1, 2025
🔷 Nordic nRF52840 Rust Embassy Tutorial: Getting Started from Scratch | rocking rust
Mar 25, 2025
🛡️ Portable Embedded Rust with task-watchdog 🐺: One Codebase for pico, stm32 & esp32 | rocking rust
Mar 18, 2025
Precise Timing with Embassy & Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico - Playing with the Pico ep4
Mar 11, 2025
Accessing embedded ROM functions from Rust 🦀 with the Raspberry Pi Pico
Mar 4, 2025
Raspberry Pi Pico Rust 🦀 and async embedded USB development with embassy-rs.
Feb 25, 2025
Building a USB Vendor Device with the Raspberry Pi Pico - Playing with the Pico ep1
Feb 18, 2025
I left it on overnight ... and now it won't boot - Commodore 2031/1541 repair - floppies rock ep18
Feb 11, 2025
Repairing self-inflicting damage to my 45 year old Commodore 2040 disk drive - floppies rock ep17
Feb 4, 2025
Adding WiFi to a 40 year old Commodore disk drive - floppies rock ep16
Feb 3, 2025
Setting an xum1541/ZoomFloppy serial number
Jan 28, 2025
Rocking Rust #2 - Using Rust to test Commodore disk drives - floppies rock ep15
Jan 21, 2025
Rocking Rust - Using Rust to access Commodore disk drives - floppies rock ep14
Jan 14, 2025
Using OpenCBM with a 1979 DOS 1 Commodore dual disk drive - floppies rock ep13
Jan 7, 2025
Servicing Commodore 2040 twin drive mechanisms - floppies rock ep12
Dec 31, 2024
Mounting a 1541 disk natively in Linux - floppies rock ep11
Dec 24, 2024
All I want for Christmas ... is a working Commodore 2040 disk drive - floppies rock ep10
Dec 17, 2024
Remastering original V-MAX protected C64 games - floppies rock ep9
Dec 10, 2024
Exploring and fixing a rare Commodore 1551 disk drive - floppies rock ep8
Dec 3, 2024
Why won't my Commodore 1541 and 1570 drives align??? - floppies rock ep 7
Nov 30, 2024
Fixing Major Morgan and a Fisher Price Record Player - weekend quickie #2
Nov 26, 2024
Repairing a broken 1541/2031 disk drive tachometer - floppies rock ep6
Nov 23, 2024
Upgrading an Amiga 500 to 1MB of chip RAM - weekend quickie #1
Nov 19, 2024
Can I fix two 1571s in a row? - floppies rock ep5
Nov 12, 2024
Video: It Went Pop! (floppies rock ep 4)
Nov 5, 2024
Video: Reverting a Commodore 2031 back from a 1541 (floppies rock ep 3)
Oct 29, 2024
Video: testing a Commodore 2031 disk drive without a PET (floppies rock ep 2)
Oct 23, 2024
Video: fixing two "untested" ebay Commodore 1541 disk drives (floppies rock ep 1)
Apr 4, 2024
GCC Strikes again
Apr 4, 2024
Using Circle for Pi Bare Metal Programming
Feb 25, 2024
Running ollama laptop with NVIDIA GPU, within WSL2, using docker
Feb 10, 2024
My Raspberry Pi Horde
Nov 18, 2023
Raspberry Pi 5 UART timings different from previous generations
Oct 12, 2023
Creating a custom SD card layout for Ubuntu 22.04 on a Raspberry Pi
Oct 8, 2023
Running Raspberry Pi OS on a Pi 4 in 32-bit mode
Sep 17, 2023
Setting up Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) on a Raspberry Pi NAS
Sep 17, 2023
Setting up Windows file sharing (samba) on a Raspberry Pi NAS
Sep 17, 2023
SATA via an M.2 slot using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
Sep 13, 2023
Basic DMA test program for the Pico
Sep 8, 2023
Cheap USB Ethernet dongle problems with linux
Sep 8, 2023
Pico UART GPIO allocation
Sep 8, 2023
M-Bus Master on Raspberry Pi Pico
Sep 7, 2023
Drive two UARTs on the Pico, with UART1 used for USB serial
Sep 7, 2023
Single install script and/or container for Pico development
Sep 5, 2023
Creating your own Pico program using the C SDK
Sep 5, 2023
Building Raspberry Pi Pico W examples
Sep 5, 2023
Script and Dockerfile to create Pico build environment
Sep 5, 2023
Installing the Raspberry Pi Pico C SDK and picotool, on a Raspberry Pi
Sep 5, 2023
Building a custom MicroPython firmware image for the Raspberry Pi Pico W
Sep 5, 2023
Building MicroPython for the Raspberry Pi Pico W
Aug 26, 2023
Raspberry Pi Bare Metal Programming and -mno-unaligned-access
Dec 28, 2022
landscape-sysinfo for Raspberry Pi
Jun 12, 2022
Raspberry Pi 4 (64-bit) loses DHCP IP address
Jan 9, 2022
Upgrading a gitlab-ce container from version 9
May 24, 2021
Using the M-Bus Master Hat with Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi
Jan 12, 2021
Using Seeed Studio's PCB Assembly Service
Jun 13, 2020
Controlling Raspberry Pi GPIOs at boot
Apr 11, 2020
M-Bus Primary and Secondary Addresses and accessing using libmbus
Apr 4, 2020
Open Source M-Bus Slave Software (supports Raspberry Pi)
Apr 1, 2020
Reading a Kaifa MA304 M-Bus Electricity Meter using a Raspberry Pi
Jan 18, 2020
Driving the M-Bus Master Hat using Python - pyMbusHat
Nov 9, 2019
Running M-Bus Master and Ethernet Hats on a Pi Zero simultaneously
Oct 31, 2019
M-Bus Master Hat Schematic
Oct 30, 2019
M-Bus Master Hat Mods
Oct 15, 2019
What's wrong with the Pi Zero?
Jul 6, 2019
Calculating solenoid strength
May 11, 2019
Native M-Bus support on the ESP8266
May 7, 2019
ESPi - The ESP8266 masquerading as a Raspberry Pi Zero
Mar 22, 2019
Docker on Raspberry Pi hangs on startup
Mar 22, 2019
Using multiple Github accounts on Windows
Mar 16, 2019
RESTful M-Bus Web Server
Mar 3, 2019
SOT363 SOT23 Breakout Board
Mar 3, 2019
Raspberry Pi M-Bus Master Hat
Mar 2, 2019
Atlas EC-20 M-Bus water/flow meter
Feb 18, 2019
Raspberry Pi Multiple Serial Ports
Feb 18, 2019
Changing serial port speed and settings in Linux
Feb 8, 2019
Terminal manipulation in Rust
Jan 28, 2019
Handling a Stream of Rust Futures
Jan 20, 2019
wiringPi Updates for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
Jan 8, 2019
M-Bus Slave Device Schematic
Jan 6, 2019
Catching Ctrl-C in Rust
Jan 5, 2019
Parallel make of gcc is a memory sink
Jan 4, 2019
Simple flashing of otbiot on linux
Jan 3, 2019
PCA9956B 24 Channel I2C LED Driver
Jan 2, 2019
Getting more RAM on a Raspberry Pi
Jan 1, 2019
Rust Signal Handling (to reload config)
Dec 16, 2018
Rust (and C) Cross Compilation for the Raspberry Pi
Nov 2, 2018
Using docker manifests to create multiple architecture containers
Nov 2, 2018
An ESP8266 NonOS SDK linux build container for x86-64 and the raspberry pi
Nov 2, 2018
Upgrading to the Espressif ESP8266 NonOS SDK V3.0
Sep 22, 2018
HTSSOP-38 PCA9956B Breakout Board
Sep 11, 2018
Differences between MCP23017 and MCP23018
Jan 14, 2018
A sample SC16IS752 program for the ESP8266
Apr 23, 2017
Using Seeed Studio PCB Fab
Jan 16, 2017
I2C Within ESP8266 Bootloader
Oct 26, 2016
Ghetto PoE
Oct 21, 2016
otb-iot MQTT API
Oct 16, 2016
Booting from the 16th Megabyte of Flash on the ESP8266
Oct 15, 2016
Rboot mods for the ESP8266
Oct 14, 2016
ESP8266 16MB Flash Handling
Oct 1, 2016
MCP 24AA00 Family of I2C EEPROM chips
Sep 26, 2016
First Own ESP8266 Module Design
Sep 8, 2016
ESP-3212 Breakout Board
Sep 8, 2016
SOT23 Breakout Board
Aug 21, 2016
PCF8574 Implementation
Aug 20, 2016
Initial MCP23017 implementation
Aug 19, 2016
Initial PCA9685 Implementation
Aug 19, 2016
QFN20 breakout board
Aug 18, 2016
A rant about hobbyist software libraries
Aug 17, 2016
QFN28 breakout board
Feb 25, 2016
Introducing otb-iot for the ESP8266
Feb 24, 2016
Installing Github Pages on Ubuntu 15.10