MapleEngineer

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Hello.

I'm MapleEngineer. I'm from Eastern Ontario and I've been soldering for over 40 years as a hobbyist. My user name is MapleEngineer because I'm an artisan maple syrup maker and design and build my own machinery and industrial controllers.

I, like just about everyone, started out with a pencil iron and a bit of solder in a clear plastic tube.

If you're into electronics and soldering please subscribe and feel free to contribute and ask questions.

 

If your circuit is behaving weirdly, switching on when you touch a wire or move your hand over the circuit you almost certainly have a floating input. You can solve this problem with a pull-up resistor. Many AVRs have built-in pull-up resistors that you can turn on using code.

In Sketch:

pinMode(2, INPUT_PULLUP);

In BascomAVR:

Config Portb.1 = Input Set Portb.1

There's a great article at SparkFun about Pull-up Resistors.

 

If your circuit is behaving weirdly, switching on when you touch a wire or move your hand over the circuit you almost certainly have a floating input. You can solve this problem with a pull-up resistor. Many AVRs have built-in pull-up resistors that you can turn on using code.

In Sketch:

pinMode(2, INPUT_PULLUP);

In BascomAVR:

Config Portb.1 = Input Set Portb.1

There's a great article at SparkFun about Pull-up Resistors.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca to c/commodore_64@lemmy.ca
 

The CIAs, 6510, and VIC are original. In this photo I have original BASIC, Kernel, and Character ROMs in stalled for testing but I normally use 25256 to 23xx adapters to use modern ROM chips with this motherboard. I bought the parts kit from Retro8BITshop and soldered it myself.

 

Wy wife and I are small farmers. We ended up with a freezer full of pork fat. We rendered it to lard and started making soap with it. We make several varieties that are well received by our customers.

I've got a LARGE supply of potassium hydroxide flakes as well as large quantities of palmitic, palm kernel, soy, and coconut fatty acid if anyone wants to try any of them to make liquid soap (the KOH) or harder soaps with awesome suds (the fatty acids.)

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