I had a dead motherboard that had been kicking around for a while after a failed BIOS update.  The flash part on there was the Winbond W39V040B, which is 3.3V only and has an LPC interface.  The device programmer I have access to wouldn’t touch it, so I put together some simple AVR code to [...]

Spent a couple of hours trying to get MythTV back up and running tonight after the Freeview retune.  A simple “Minimal changes” retune left a number of channels with broken duplicates and several more in a state that seemed to be able to crash the front-end.  After determining that deleting all channels and starting again [...]

I’ve had a few controllerless QVGA (320×240) mono LCD modules lying around for a while looking for some use.  These are fairly easy to get going with a low-end microcontroller using an external controller IC like the SED1335, but that’s another story.  I’d been thinking about doing some sort of integrated home automation project, and [...]