For years I have wanted to be able to read some of my old, non-PC, floppy disks. A few years back I decided it was time I made a start (see posts here). The initial idea was to use an Arduino, with a PIC32MX as a fallback, connecting it to an external Amiga floppy drive […]
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I wrote in my previous post about alternative solutions instead of the Arduino. The set-up worked, sort of. The Arduino Uno was connected to the Amiga floppy drive, it was kicking out an index pulse and control was working. However the data signal when I looked at it on a scope seemed to be odd. It appeared
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Connect an external Amiga floppy drive, via a Arduino, to a USB port on a Mac. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Before you say yes, take a look at my previous posts, anything but simple. As mentioned previously there are existing projects that claim to be working at reading data including: Amiga Floppy Reader (AFR) by Marco
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I have made progress on the Amiga USB Floppy project (see original post) with an original Amiga FDD plugged in and basic control done. That is control only, I have not read anything yet. I will upload the code to GitHub and post about it. I wanted to take small steps rather than rush, and as
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Finding your position outdoors on a device is easy with GPS but indoors is another matter. I have some potential projects that might need indoor positioning so I have started researching and testing the subject. There are several ways to calculate indoor position and technologies including: Visible Light Communication (VLC); Bluetooth; WiFi; Ultra Wide Band
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I have now dropped all previous hardware (i.e. Arduino, LoRaWAN, Raspberry Pi, etc.) projects. Few seem to be progressing, most have been surpassed and so decision made to drop them all. I am starting just one new one. There are a stack of old Amiga floppy disks that go with my trusty old Commodore Amiga
LoRa seems to be getting everywhere and I recently found I needed to remotely monitor some items. Nothing major, temperature, light level and possibly a few switches. There would be more to these units which will record locally and where possible relay via the internet. Some units have no or limited internet access and thus
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You may want to read the previous post on this topic before starting this post. Last time I connected a single WS2801 controlled RGB LED to an Arduino. This time I will connect two. I know it is not rocket science, but one small step at a time. The two LEDs are connected in series as shown
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For both the Arduino projects, the mind machine and the pulse oximeter (heart rate monitor), a light source will be required. The heart monitor could use IR, well it will use it in addition to visible light, but ignore that for a minute. The mind machine will use LED lights for the googles to create
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