This is a quick guide to gaining access to a large variety of TI parts – in particular operational amplifiers – in LTspice. We’re going to export the SPICE macro directly out of TI’s own SPICE tool “TINA” and import it to LTspice. This is non-intuitive, but once you’ve seen how it’s done it’s...
I've mentioned on the blog several times the continuum that exists between handheld computers and pocket computers, battery powered devices in rather small form factors that are nevertheless fully-fledged general purpose computers — arguably more so than the modern locked-down smartphone has...
Way back (well, six months ago, anyway), when I was wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history and its sole official home computer port by Milton Bradley to the Texas Instruments 99/4A. In the single player mode you run around in a maze and...