Disposing of defective appliances is common practice and repairing them is often uneconomical. However, there are often still very useful components in such devices. I took a closer look at a Thermomix and found a nice motor control unit. Thermomix The Thermomix is a food processor from the German Vorwerk Group based in Wuppertal close…
In the last blog-post I discussed developing retro-apps for Windows that can be run under OS/2 using the WLO toolset from Microsoft. But what about native coding under OS/2 directly? Since 2003 I’m coding software for lot of different target-systems, like microcontrollers (started with Atmel Studio 4 and the Atmel AT90S2313), personal computers (Borland Delphi…
Retrocomputing with real hardware is a very nice way to understand how modern computers have learned to run and talk. I developed some GUI for OS/2 Warp 3.0 and Windows 3.11 to control some of my microcontroller-projects. Windows 3.x and the Win16-API To develop a GUI for a modern computer, you can make use of…
Ethernet on Microcontrollers is available without problems: using FreeRTOS or the Arduino-libs is always a good start. But for FPGAs? I was shocked how expensive Ethernet is for FPGAs – but I found a good solution… In 1997 I bought my first NE2000-compatible ISA-Ethernet-Card for my Windows 95 computer. Why? Well, not that my 13-year-old…
In this video I’m testing the DIY Expansion-Card for the Behringer X32 audio-mixing-console with the Room-EQ-Wizard-Software and I’m showing the new workflow using XTouch-Controllers and more things. With a live-mixed 64-channel song I’d like to celebrate 6.400 subscribers. Thank you so much for your interest, the support and the nice feedback via eMail or the…
In this video I take you with me to upgrade the hardware and I will describe some parts of the software of the DIY controller. In 2013 we changed the regular spotlights of our church to LED bars. But rain and UV-light did their contribution and damaged the devices so that I upgraded the installation…
