Gigatron Hackers

We keep all hardware related stuff in this thread. For the board I'm now playing with there's a schematic earlier in this thread + notes on how to patch it. I searched my folders and I believe the CAD files are those attached here: Expansion 1906.zip I actually continued the CAD from there, but my c...

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I just leave the files in the same directory, and build in there. In this case it seems PS2.ino was forgotten? Edit : Once it compiles and loads, check if you can talk with the Arduino using the Serial Monitor. Set it to 115200 baud and see if BabelFish is giving you a prompt. Use 'h' + enter to get...

[This is a good moment to split the expander board software development from the hardware thread .] To make the SD card reading somewhat meaningful, we must evolve CardTest into a tiny "card operating system". It can be loosely modelled after CP/M and MS-DOS. But an OS is a big thing. The ...

That's good to know, because I was still trying to coerce my raspi setup into installing pip3 and pySerial. This isn't totally ideal yet, but neither was the earlier method. At least the VID/PID list is cross-platform and easy to expand correctly.

Indeed it may be better to check for something like VID/PID pairs. Or talk to the connected devices and check if they run BabelFish. But the latter will certainly give unwelcome surprises.

I just adopted the changes to Utils/sendFile.py. It now requires Python 3. As far as I'm concerned, at this point the Python migration is one-way, without looking back. I refactored a bit as well, so I hope I didn't break the world. Most importantly, the port detection now uses pySerial's built-in c...

The hash-bang line is there so you don't have to type 'python script.py blah...', but instead you can just do Utils/sendFile.py Apps/Overworld/Overworld.gt1 You also need the executable bit set. Your version doesn't have that, so maybe you don't use this at all. It's a Unix thing, not a Python thing...

Thanks. As Python's 2.7 supports indeed ends soon , we can safely switch from 2 to 3 without even considering backwards compatibility. Somebody started on it already, but got stuck. So this will be something for under the x-mas tree. I note you didn't have to change the hash-bang line: #!/usr/bin/en...

I think so. The text can also be removed

I remember we were delighted when we discovered that 3 functions (HPF, LPF, line level) could be made from 3 passives. And not just that, but only values already used elsewhere in the design.

Here's the prototype: