Router overclocking
Sunday, March 24, 2024 in Hacks
Real gaming router This is part 2 of the “Real gaming router” series of blog posts. Read Part 1 / Real gaming router first. Why? If you’ve seen part 1 of the “Real gaming router”, you know that the game performance in …
Real gaming router
Sunday, March 03, 2024 in Hacks
Update, 18th March 2024 Read Part 2 / Router overclocking for an update on performance. What is it? A TP-Link wireless router, with an external AMD Radeon GPU connected via PCIe, running Debian Linux and playing games: What makes this router so …
Typewriter Teletype
Sunday, August 07, 2022 in Hacks
What is it? Samsung / Commodore SQ-1000 electronic typewriters can be modified to work as a teletype terminal. They use a simple 8bit microcontroller to scan the keyboard matrix and do the printing itself. The keyboard was originally attached using …
ATAPI Audio-CD player
Monday, July 26, 2021 in Hacks
What is it? ATAPIMega is a hardware project which allows regular (P)ATA CD/DVD drives to be used as a standalone Audio-CD player. The PCB accepts (regulated!) 12V DC power via a 5.5mm/2.1mm barrel jack and outputs 12V/5V for the CD drive. The …
TCP/IP for Casio calculators
Monday, July 12, 2021 in Hacks
What is it? fxIP is a port of uIP 1.0 to Casio fx-9750/fx-9860 calculators. It requires calculators with a SuperH SH4a CPU, needs quite a bit of SRAM. fxIP connects to IP networks via SLIP encapsulation over the 3-pin 2.5mm 5V serial port/UART. …
Programmable logic in PHP
Sunday, November 08, 2020 in Hacks
What is it? Parallel ROMs (OTP-ROMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, NOR flash, etc.) can be used as simple, programmable logic devices. They can be programmed to hold a lookup-table / bit stream, which will emulate logic functions (like 74-series logic) by …
GPIO PATA/IDE on Linux
Saturday, August 08, 2020 in Hacks
What is it? pata-gpio is a Linux kernel driver for GPIO bitbanged PATA (also known as ATA/ATAPI or IDE). Pin configuration can be set via device tree, the regular ATA framework is used. IDE Primary/Secondary device support is implemented. In use …