Monthly Archives: June 2022

Hacking Low-Cost Ankle Weights

As always, if you were to embark on this yourself, do this at your own risk. There is something tribal about customizing your own fitness equipment with flying sparks. In my last grading to brown belt in Karate, my teacher strapped some extra weights on me as a handicap during the day. I have never […]

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MCS-51 / 8051 – Hello STC89C52

Sources are available here. After going over the background of the 8051 architecture in part 1 of this series, let us have a look at a simple “Hello World” example for this microcontroller. For this post, you either need an STC89C52 demo board, or you can breadboard a minimal STC89C52-circuit as follows. For the bootstrap […]

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