Retro and Light Hardware: RP2040, Pi Pico, and Commodore VC-20
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Another RP2040 Feather rises from the Bones
Our first ‘RP2040 Bones’ design was the RP2040 DVI – where the 8 consecutive ‘extra’ pins became an DVI output.
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Pi Pico Calculates Water Usage
Modern WiFi-enabled microcontrollers have made it affordable and easy to monitor everything from local weather information to electricity usage with typically no more than a few dollars worth of hardware and a little bit of programming knowledge. Monitoring one’s own utility data can be a little bit more difficult without interfering with the metering equipment, but we have seen some clever ways of doing this over the years. The latest is this water meter monitoring device based on a Raspberry Pi Pico.
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Restoring my 1983 “Aldi” Commodore VC-20
Earlier this month I became the proud owner of a Commodore VC-20, the German-badged VIC-20 that predated the famed Commodore 64. Here she was in her original condition: [...]