DIY Silicon: Design Your Own Chips
Now you can design and manufacture your own custom chips — for cheap!
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This Functioning Monster 6502 Is a Larger Than Life Version of the Iconic Microchip
The Monster 6502 is an incredible homage to the chip that revolutionized home computing.
Why I’m Excited That Microchip Is Buying Atmel
Microchip and Atmel’s merge will hopefully yield a combination of the best of the AVR and PIC worlds — so what does this mean for embedded development?
Masterpiece of Soldering: You Won’t Believe This Handmade Electronic Clock
This clock not only displays the time, but all of the components you would see in a wristwatch microchip if viewed under a microscope.
The Create USB Interface and GROVE Sensor Platform
Here’s another interesting physical computing platform; the PIC-based Create USB Interface. The original design was made by Dan Overholt as a bridge between computer and world for musical and artistic applications. Seeed Studio has an updated design called the CUI32Stem, which has been tweaked to work well with the thirty-something sensors and actuators in their […]
Yuri Zupancic’s Microchip Paintings
Perfect for the electronic engineer with an appreciation for art, these awesome Microchip paintings are created by Yuri Zupancic. [via CRAFT via Dudecraft]
Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping, sponsored by Jameco Electronics
[Note: Jameco is currently offering all the parts I used in this video as a perfboard prototyping kit — just add wire & solder. ] When you think “DIY electronics,” one of the first images that likely comes to mind is of parts and wire soldered to a standard piece of perforated circuit board — […]
