Daniel’s Stuff

Here is Funky Clock 2.0, well the processor board anyway.

I have several PIC18F452 in the PLCC package, so I decided to see if I could get that working.

My forth is running on it and I am implementing a new UI for the clock allowing the time to be set using a really cool dial/switch combo.

To connect to the new board I’ve made another daughter board that has the power connector, quadrature dial button thingy and a serial connection plug.  I have made a little RS232 adapter using a MAX232 chip and a hand full of capacitors placed into a DB9 head shell with some pins sticking out of one end and a DB9 on the other.  When I plug the adapter into my Funky Clock it is powered from the Funky Clock and I am able to send code and commands to it via a terminal emulator

It all works really nicely

See https://github.com/dparnell/hu01 for the code

It is AWFUL code, but it seems to work.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently you’ll know that the Playstation 3 is now wide open for home brew code.  I’ve been having some fun running my  own code on my PS3  The PSL1GHT wiki contains all the information necessary to set up a development environment.

The thing I was really happy about was that the code I had written for the old hardware needed very little changes to work.  Forth is really good like that.  All I had to do was change the low level code that actually hits the hardware, and the higher level stuff just worked