Microwave Proximity Sensor

Controller adapter for Atari 5200 featuring :

• Analog Controller (using precise timing);
• Digital Controller on D-PAD just like a Masterplay adapter;
• Full keypad emulation;
• Auto detected second controller adapter for games like Robotron
• Independent Top/Bottom buttons on second controller.

Further info:

Hackaday.io project page

Github repository

AtariAge forum topic

Buttons and controls mapping mapping:

Signal debounce module for hardware signal debouncing. The delay can be changed by changing the cap impedance. Bigger value = bigger delay. Here all the info

Headphone DAC prototype using a PSoC 5LP as a limited audio processing engine. More information and KiCad project at https://github.com/half-spin

Teensy based CAN Node for Home Automation.

• CAN
• OneWire
• 2x RS485/DMX/ Differential out for ws2811
• I2C
• SPI
• Terminals: Wago 243-211 (also used by KNX)

https://wiebel.org/CANNode

https://github.com/wiebel/CANNode

A better version of the NanoVNA “Testboard kit”

Most importantly, Made in the USA and is guaranteed to arrive at your doorstep in less than 2-3 weeks… Unlike some overseas vendors!

FTDI USB to TTL Serial Converter Adapter with a Razberry GPIO Board.

Dutchtronick Oscilloscope clock PCB files downloaded from http://www.dutchtronix.com/ScopeClockH3-1-Enhanced.htm#PCB-3.1-DesignFiles

BOM

Contact me if there are questions.

I got the inspiration for this project from the YouTube channel Mr. Carlson’s Lab, where its owner Paul can’t stress enough how useful a curve tracer is for troubleshooting faulty elecrical components. Back in the 1930s and 1940s curve tracers had been integrated into some oscilloscopes from this period. However, nowadays curve tracers are expensive specialized devices like the Huntron Tracker and if you dont feel like spending that kind of money, you have to build your own.

My idea was to make use of the built-in Function Generator which your oscilloscope might already have in order to inject AC current into the component under test. This way I developed an “Octopus”-like frontend for a FG which Dave Jones reviewed in his Mailbag Monday video EEVblog #1137. Octopus circuits are a very simple type of curve tracers which can be easily found on the internet, but as it is shown in the Mailbag video this design only works in combination with an expensive differential probe. In my lengthier project description I talk about this in more depth.

Paul Carlson has published his own version of a curve tracer circuit on Patreon from which I “borrowed” the use of another opamp as a difference amplifier. I added this to my Octopus design and gave this improved version the name YACT. In hindsight, the addition of a difference amplifier which eliminates the need for a differential probe seems like a natural and easy approach. However, a few years ago when I first pondered about the Octopus frontend idea this was somewhat over my head. Regarding to electronics I still am an amateur who needs to gain experience and an effective stimulus (thanks, Paul :-)).

Schematics:

3D Model:

Simple breakout board for an SRAM module produced by Renesas. The module in question is a RMLV0808BGSB.