This is the final part of my series discussing my Macintosh Classic CRT project. In this article I want to give you a summary of my future ideas for the macdisplay project.
Continue reading Control a Macintosh Classic CRT with a BeagleBone Black – Part 3
Today I’ll just upload a short how-to article, explaining how to use a relay module. Some time ago I bought a dirt cheap relay module for controlling high power LEDs with a Raspberry Pi on Amazon. One of these modules cost about 2$ (shipping included), which is a fantastic price, so I ordered 5 modules. In this very short article, I want to explain how you can use such a module in one of your projects. Continue reading How to use a relay module with your Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone or Arduino
This article will cover the software aspect of my Macintosh Classic project. The final solution is running on a BeagleBone Black, using its programmable realtime unit. If you want to learn more about PRU programming, you can do so here.
Continue reading Control a Macintosh Classic CRT with a BeagleBone Black – Part 2
This article will explain how the timing of the Macintosh Classic CRT works and how I tried (and failed) to interface it with the Raspberry Pi, and how I successfully interfaced it with the BeagleBone Black’s PRU.
Continue reading Control a Macintosh Classic CRT with a BeagleBone Black – Part 1
Almost one year ago I found an old Macintosh Classic, produced in the 1990’s in a basement. I bought it from the guy who used to own it and he told me, that he doesn’t know whether it is working or not and that it was standing there for about 20 years. Needless to say that it was in a pretty bad shape. After it arrived at my apartment, I immediately plugged it in and switched it on. Once the screen came on, it was pretty disappointing: It just displayed a checkerboard, which seems to be a pretty common issue with these models. This problem is caused by a variety of issues.
Continue reading Control a Macintosh Classic CRT with a BeagleBone Black – Intro
Today’s article will be a short one in which I’ll cover the so called cycle counter register (DWT_CYCCNT), which is present on the BBB’s PRU cores and on other CPUs from the Cortex architecture (See here). However this register is implementation dependent, so it might not be available on chips from some vendors. If this register is not present on a chip, it will always read zero. This register counts the number of cycles for which the PRU has been enabled. Continue reading BeagleBone Black PRU clock cycle counter
In this part of the series I’m going to show you how to write a very basic C Host-Application that will run a program on the PRU of the BBB. This part of the series assumes that you have basic C skills. I’ll also include some useful links to the official ti API. Everything can be done with the tools that come with the BBB. Code Composer Studio (CCS) oder Eclipse are not needed needed but you can use them, if you want to.
Continue reading BeagleBone Black programmable realtime unit (PRU) Hello World – Part 2
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