Another Failed hard drive Over the last several years I’ve lost three 500G and the latest a 1TB hard drives, all Seagate. All started making occasional clunking noises that turned into a regular clicking and no access. The 1TB drive failed within the warranty period. The NZ supplier had disappeared […]
This was a small one-off project due to the need to heat 120mm long pieces of 1.5mm stainless steel wire as part of an industrial process. It had to be quick, simple and safe. In total, about 7 hours work from initial evaluation to boxed and ready to connect to […]
This is an PIC16F assembly code example. Created originally about 10 years ago. It includes chip configuration and UART RS232 support using buffers and interrupts. The original application was a controller that consisted of a PIC16F876 connected to a PC via RS-232 and to a PIC16F676 via a fast clk/dat/int […]
