In a school project, the goal is to refurbish two old drink dispenser and bring these old devices up to date, and allow them to function for several more years. As the firmware of one of the machines ...

The SN74LV8153 is a serial-to-parallel IC. It can translate serial (yes, UART) to 8 parallel output pins. In combination with a USB-to-serial converter this is a very powerful, yet simple setup to ...

External EPROM burners are pretty handy gadgets to have around. They obviously can read and write EPROMS, but often times they will also handle a pile of PIC’s, some AVR’s, and other programmable ...