Dillon Nichols

@Dillon1337

Electrical engineer: hardware/firmware; tinkerer; hobbyist; amateur web developer;

Pittsburgh, PA
tinkerer.us
Joined December 2010
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  1. May 28

    Finally found a USB programmer that I could use on old ROM chips like the AT49F040. Called the TL866 Programmer and they cost ~$40

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  2. May 19
    Replying to

    There she is! Along with a ton of software discs and drives and manuals. And the actual book I learned with.

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  3. May 18

    Learned BASIC on an Atari 800 that I got from a yard sale ~Y2K. Must've been a SW dev's cause it included handwritten notes and guides

    BASIC computer language is 53 years old today. Retweet if BASIC was your first computer language?
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  4. Retweeted
    May 15

    I made a edited thing, with 3D printing, and putting a vacuum fluorescent display under an oscope, and weird epoxy.

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  5. May 9

    Going old school with iOS 4 to try and reverse engineer this controller's Bluetooth protocol.

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  6. May 5

    I just published “Pi Lamp Software”

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  7. May 3

    I just published “Pi Lamp Hardware”

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  8. Apr 27

    Some great videos about learning Vim I've tried it a few times but it didn't stick. I think these will help.

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  9. Apr 24

    Here's how Intel makes a chip the size of a postage stamp I'm still amazed that we haven't reached the limits yet.

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  10. Apr 4

    I just published “How to migrate your blog from Blogger to Medium”

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  11. Apr 3

    This story alone is very interesting but the graphics really help to convey the psychological differences.

    I live the interactive diagrams appearing in news stories. This is the future I always wanted.
  12. Apr 3

    I moved my personal website, , to https thanks to !

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  13. Mar 30

    Lots of other posts on the subject, but this one has some interesting points i.e. Will tobacco use go down if we don't need to stop for gas?

    Cars and second order consequences — new blog post.
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  14. Retweeted
    Mar 17

    Amazing story of Indian scientists sending a rocket to Mars. Yes, they're women.

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  15. Mar 17

    Some nice reverse engineering to understand Starbuck's API and then use a AWS IoT button to order a drink

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  16. Mar 14

    Happy ! Suprised at how small these Zeros are

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  17. Mar 6

    Just found out that Google Drive/Docs can convert scanned PDFs back into text documents. Handy!

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  18. Mar 3

    Ran across a screenshot of my home screen from 3 years ago. Haven't really switched my apps up since then.

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  19. Retweeted
    Feb 28

    "the Zero W antenna is a resonant cavity which is formed by etching away copper on each layer of the PCB structure"

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  20. Mar 3

    or "how to turn your $0.61 part into a $1.56 part". Super detailed look into how to change parts of the chip Cypress didn't want you to see

    Exploiting PSoC4 for fun and profit :
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