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This is a summeray about how to about using an 8051 assembler used in a college course with POSIX compatible operating systems using Dosbox.

This is a list of electronics related links I collected in the early 2000's.

On one of the last days of august 2005 I purchased a brand-new 12" G4 Apple iBook Laptop. This page is dedicated to this beautiful piece of hardware, I will share my experiences here. You can also read here how I installed Gentoo Linux on it back then.

I usually have more than one computer set up in my bedroom, a whole LAN segment so to speak. I used to network them together using a 10mbit hub (with a coax connector connected over the (75 ohms television coax) to other PC's in the house because it was the most practical way.

This is an alarm clock I built. It was very effective during the sort time I used it, because I programmed it to play a very annoying tune through a speaker. I actually started to wake up before the alarm went of, so other people in the house didn't wake up from the annoying pitches it played.

This is the first circuit I built with the PIC16F84. It can best be described as an egg timer with only the timekeeping code in place. It's got 4 pushbuttons, a character LCD and a buzzer. I started building this clock because I wanted to build my own Alarm clock. That project moved to another page, and this project will be made into a short period timer that automatically turns of a device (battery-charger, UV-case) after a preset time.

At the start of the third year of highschool (or fourth - I don't remember exactly) we had to buy a TI-83 calculator for math class, it was commonly known among pupils that many games were available for this device. One of the kids in our classgroup had some games on it, and we started sharing them and playing during class to pass some time. All the copying was done using the suplied 'link cable', which made it possible to transfer data amongst two calculators.

This is the final project I created my last year of highschool (2003-2004). It's about stepper motor control with an AVR microcontroller and BASCOM. I designed a PCB with AT90S2313 microcontroller and ULN2003 Darlington array to drive the stepper motor. It has a chapter about stepper motors that might be of interest if you want to know something more about stepper motors.

I wrote it in my native language, dutch.

An introduction to Linux. I wrote this piece of advocacy in dutch. Linux used to a thing I explained frequently and this is where I pointed people to afterwards.

At about Y2K, we moved into our new house, and decided to get an ADSL internet connection. Since we had more than one computer, we had to share our connection amongst them. After thoroughly searching on the web regarding this subject, I made a list of solutions, along with the advantages and disadvantages of the possible solutions.

I used this spot to put links to miscellaneous binaries I provide on my website.

In the year 2001 I became very interested in digital electronics, and wanted to start experimenting with microcontrollers. When I was about to buy (expensive) Basic Stamps, I found the JAL website, and read the Hello World material. The JAL language targeted the Microchip PIC controllers.