Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
There are a lot of Serial USB converter devices that use the the very popular FT8U232BM FTDI chip. Here is information what drivers you might have to install and what operating systems you can use the adaptor under. First of all, conveniently, the linux kernel has drivers for the ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Here is a way to communicate with an old ISA card through your USB port. The USB2ISA from ARS Technologies allows the plugging in of any standard computer PC ISA card. What ARS has done here is worked out all the timing and transactions of the ISA bus and created ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
If you are an electronic hobbyist, you will find there are some chips that have the Inter-Integrated Circuit or I2C serial communications bus that controls the particular device. The advantage of such an interface is that you only need two signal lines (plus ground) for the entire bus regardless of ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
An all in one unit by Ion Audio called VCR2PC will quite easily capture the video off of VHS tapes into digital form up to full resolution. It is windows compatible but also will work on the mac through iMovie. This leads me to believe that it might also work ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Here is an idea for an older joystick such as a Atari Game Controller. You can use the internal circuit board from a Tremon USB 10-Button Joypad. The price for one of these controllers is relatively inexpensive being about 5 dollars.
Remove the original wires from the older joystick that went to ...
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