Interface the Raspberry Pi Zero W to Commodore 64

Leif Bloomquist has designed a board to interface the Raspberry Pi Zero W to the Commodore 64 through the User Port.

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Raspberry Pi Zero W / Commodore 64 Interface Board

Project goals:

1. Get a Linux shell prompt on your C64 through the Pi Zero’s Console Pins.

2. Use the Pi Zero as a virtual Floppy Disk Drive through raspbiec (https://github.com/Flogistoni/raspbiec) (another option is ninepin, https://github.com/FozzTexx/ninepin)

3. Allow your C64 to access the Internet, USB, etc. through the Pi Zero. ssh!

4. Provide Composite Video out from the Pi Zero that is usable directly on a Commodore monitor.

5. (Stretch Goal #1) If possible – use your C64’s keyboard as the keyboard on the Pi Zero (through the serial port). Maybe through softwedge? (https://github.com/theatrus/softwedge)

6. (Stretch Goal #2) Add PWM audio output (along the lines of https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-zero/audio-outputs)

 

  • 1 × Commodore 64
  • 1 × Raspberry Pi Zero W
  • 1 × 75HC245 For 5V / 3.3V translation
  • 1 × Custom board To be designed.

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Interface the Raspberry Pi Zero W to Commodore 64

Ultrasound Imaging with Raspberry Pi

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Best Product Entry: A HSDK for Ultrasound Imaging

As an entry into this year’s Best Product portion of the Hackaday Prize, [kelu124] is developing a hardware and software development kit for ultrasound imaging.

Ultrasound is one of the primary tools used in modern diagnostic medicine. Head to the doctor with abdominal pain, and you can bet you’ll be seeing the business end of an ultrasound system. While Ultrasound systems have gotten cheaper, they aren’t something everyone has in the home yet.

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[kelu124] is working to change that by building a hardware and software development kit which can be used to explore ultrasound systems. This isn’t [kleu124’s] first rodeo. HSDK builds upon and simplifies Murgen, his first open source ultrasound, and an entry in the 2016 Hackaday prize. [kelu124’s] goal is to “simplify everything, making it more robust and more user-friendly”.

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The system is driven by a Raspberry Pi Zero W. A custom carrier board connects the Pi to the pulser block, which sends out the ultrasonic pings, and the analog front end, which receives the reflected signals. The receiver is called Goblin, and is a custom PCB designed [kelu124] designed himself. It uses a variable gain amplifier to bring reflected ultrasound signals up out of the noise.

 

Ultrasound Imaging with Raspberry Pi

“Ye Olde Nowt” Raspberry Pi Game Console

From Radomir Dopieralski on Hackaday.io:

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Ye Olde Nowt

Yet another pi zero retro handheld game console.

Quantity Component name
1 Raspberry Pi Zero
1 1.5″ SSD1351 Display Module
2 Small SMD Speakers
2 33nF SMD Capacitor
2 1µF SMD Capacitor
2 150kΩ SMD Resistor
2 270kΩ SMD Resistor
6 Buttons
6 90° Buttons
1 ZeroLiPO
1 1S LiPo Battery

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“Ye Olde Nowt” Raspberry Pi Game Console

High-speed ADC pHAT for Raspberry Pi

kelu124 designed this board to add high-speed analog inputs to the Raspberry Pi:
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20Msps+ ADC RaspberryPi extension

We haven’t tapped yet into the full potential of the Raspberry Pi in terms of ADC. Some have shown that the first gen of Raspberry could go to 10Msps [..] My take is that the new Raspberry Pi’s  can surely go above. And I want to try it, either with this old CA3306E or with more recent kick-ass ADCs.

The design files are available on GitHub:

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High-speed ADC pHAT for Raspberry Pi

Smaller version of GameBoy Zero

moosepr designed this small and simple GameBoy-style device using the Raspberry Pi Zero:

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I’m not overly fond of ‘rats nest’ wires, and I have a bit of an obsession with making things as small as possible, so this is what I came up with.

Tis just an ILI9341 screen, a Pi Zero, 2 navi switches (5 way), and a battery (with charge/protect circuit)

petay has shared the board on OSH Park:

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Order from OSH Park

Here the board is in action:

 

Smaller version of GameBoy Zero

Raspberry Pi Zero W desk clock

Nick Sayer created a LED desk clock driven by NTP on a Raspberry Pi Zero W:

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Raspberry Pi Zero W desk clock

When I was in college, I bought and built a Heathkit GC-1000 WWV clock. Since then, I’ve been somewhat interested in accurate time measurement. I recently designed a GPS driven clock, but sometimes your local WiFi reception is better than GPS (say, indoors). For those circumstances, a clock that gets time from NTP over WiFi would be preferable. The newly released Raspberry Pi Zero W makes this quite a bit simpler to achieve
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Raspberry Pi Zero W desk clock

IceZero FPGA Board for Raspberry Pi

Black Mesa Labs created this board that adds a Lattice FPGA to a Raspberry Pi:

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IceZero FPGA Board for RaspPi

BML has been very much enchanted with the Lattice FPGA boards for Raspberry Pi, IcoBoard , BlackIce and IceHat. The IceZero board is a BML creation that attempts to combine the best features of all 3 boards into a single design.

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IceZero features common with other designs

  • Fully Open-Source Hardware and Software Design.
  • Lattice ICE40HX4K FPGA that supports Clifford Wolf’s Project IceStorm tool chain.
  • Interfaces to Raspberry Pi 2×20 GPIO Header for both power and bus interfaces.
  • PROM programmable directly from Rasp Pi, no JTAG programmer required.
  • External SRAM, supporting soft CPU core designs ( code execution ).
  • Extra large SPI PROM, supporting soft CPU core designs ( code storage ).
  • Industry standard PMOD expansion headers

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IceZero features that are BML specific

  • Mesa Bus Protocol 32 MHz SPI link between CPU and FPGA.
  • 2-Layer PCB design. Orderable via OSH-Park or Gerbers for Downloading.
  • FTDI 1×6 USB Serial Cable header for use with PC instead of Pi ( or as a soft CPU debug Trace Port ).
  • Single Pi UART plumbed to FPGA for muxing to multiple external serial devices.

BlackMesaLabs has shared the board on OSH Park:

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BML IceZero Lattice ICE40 FPGA for RaspPi

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Order from OSH Park

IceZero FPGA Board for Raspberry Pi

USB-to-1-wire Interface

Alan Mitchell designed this board to interface 1-wire sensors to a Raspberry Pi computer:

USB-to-1-wire Interface

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Order from OSH Park

This board is part of Alan’s Raspberry Pi data collection system:

Mini-Monitor

The Mini-Monitor software is data acquisition software that runs on a Raspberry Pi computer. It is designed to post the collected data to the BMON web-based sensor reading database and analysis software, but the software can be modified to post to other Internet databases. The Mini-Monitor software has the ability to collect data from a number of different sources

USB-to-1-wire Interface

Drinkro the Synchro Bartender

Synchro Labs created this project to demonstrate the use of the Synchro mobile app platform with custom hardware:

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Drinkro Cocktail Robot

based on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and a custom-designed hardware board used to control four DC liquid peristaltic pump motors using two L293D dual H-bridge ICs

Hardware design files are available on GitHub:

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Video of Drinkro in action:

Drinkro the Synchro Bartender