Arduino provides a USART driver for treating the data as a stream, basically a never ending sequence of bytes. This follows along a tradition of sorts, basically popularized by UNIX in the 1970’s. However traditional (at the time) computers did I/O by records, blocks or packets, of data. And this is the basic operating method …
Month: May 2021
I received an email from a purchaser of the PDP-8 Class Project book, Doug Gilliland, who took my design and did an implementation using an Altera FPGA instead of the Xilinx FPGA used in my classes. He also made a custom front panel! Very nice! You can read all about his project here https://hackaday.io/project/179357-pdp-8-fpga. This …
I recently received a request from a reader of my Far Inside The Arduino: Nano Every Supplement. He needed to create a 38kHz carrier modulated at 1kHz for a project he was building with the Arduino Nano Every and was thwarted by available code for the Uno which would not compile on the Nano Every. …