My first project on the Pico was the Pico-mposite, a breadboard circuit and application that demonstrated how to generate a black and white composite video signal in software using the Pico’s PIO cores and DMA and a resistor ladder as a digital to analogue convertor. The project went through a couple of iterations; from a hacked together demo to something that was a bit more usable and, more importantly, was ready, at least in principle …
The Retro Computer Festival is held annually at The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge and this year I managed to secure a table as an exhibitor. How I got involved Long story short, I contacted Tony Jewell, the organiser, who said that there was no room at the inn, so I left it at that. A week or so later, Mack Wharton, another exhibitor, contacted me to say that he wouldn’t mind sharing a …
In case you are wondering what’s been going on over the last few days on here, I’ve been having some issues with the site. Long story short, I had not checked it for a couple of weeks, and was alerted by a couple of followers on social media that the site was either not available, or displaying adverts. It looked like it had been hacked to inject adverts. I spent a couple of nights attempting …
