Arduino AY-3-8910 Shield Design

Having build my AY-3-8910 Experimenter PCB I thought a slightly simpler format board would be useful, so I've put together an Uno shield-format PCB that can support one or two AY-3-8910 chips. Arduino AY-3-8910 Shield Build Guide Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any … Continue reading Arduino AY-3-8910 Shield Design →

Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 6

Finally I'm doing something arguably slightly musical with my SP0256A-AL2! Playing it over MIDI. Part 1 - Basic introduction and getting started Part 2 - Arduino programmable clock Part 3 - Using a Raspberry Pi Pico as a programmable clock Part 4 - Using a HC4046 PLL as the clock Part 5 - Using an I2C SI5351 programmable clock … Continue reading Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 6 →

Arduino SP0256A-AL2 Shield PCB Build Guide

Here are the build notes for my Arduino SP0256A-AL2 Shield Design. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If you are new to electronics and microcontrollers, see the Getting Started pages. Bill of Materials Arduino SP0256A-AL2 Shield PCB (GitHub link below) … Continue reading Arduino SP0256A-AL2 Shield PCB Build Guide →

Arduino SP0256A-AL2 Shield Design

Having spent quite a bit of time with an Arduino hooked up to an SP0256A-AL2 on a solderless breadboard, and now that I've got some ideas for how I want to sort out the clock, I thought it time to create a PCB to save the unreliable wiring getting in the way! Arduino SP0256A-AL2 Shield … Continue reading Arduino SP0256A-AL2 Shield Design →

Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 5

This looks at another of the options from Part 4 - the I2C programmable Si5351 clock source. Part 1 - Basic introduction and getting started Part 2 - Arduino programmable clock Part 3 - Using a Raspberry Pi Pico as a programmable clock Part 4 - Using a HC4046 PLL as the clock Part 5 - Using an I2C SI5351 … Continue reading Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 5 →

Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 4

Having now tried both an Arduino and Raspberry Pi Pico as programmable clocks for the SP0256A-AL2, this post starts to look at some alternative solutions, starting with a HC4046 phase-locked loop, voltage-controlled oscillator clock. Part 1 - Basic introduction and getting started Part 2 - Arduino programmable clock Part 3 - Using a Raspberry Pi Pico as … Continue reading Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 4 →

Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 3

Following on from using an Arduino as a variable clock in Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 2, I have some ideas for a few options, but this post looks in detail at using a Raspberry Pi Pico as the clock source. Spoilers: it kind of works, but isn't quite the answer I need yet... Part 1 … Continue reading Arduino and SP0256A-AL2 – Part 3 →

Arduino and AY-3-8910 – Part 5

My next bit of messing around with Arduno and AY-3-8910 takes my AY-3-8910 Experimenter PCB Design and adds some simple MIDI reception to create a 12-channel AY-3-8910 tone module. Part 1 - Getting started and looking at playing YM files. Part 2 - Adding basic MIDI control. Part 3 - Basic experiments with direct digital synthesis. Part 4 - … Continue reading Arduino and AY-3-8910 – Part 5 →

AY-3-8910 Experimenter PCB Build Guide

Here are the build notes for my AY-3-8910 Experimenter PCB Design. https://makertube.net/w/fULfpG9LNwpb3iCfavVkAp Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If you are new to electronics and microcontrollers, see the Getting Started pages. Bill of Materials AY-3-8910 Experimenter PCB (GitHub link below) … Continue reading AY-3-8910 Experimenter PCB Build Guide →

AY-3-8910 Experimenter PCB Design

Following on from my Arduino and AY-3-8910 experiments, one thing I wanted to do was to try to hook up several AY-3-8910 devices and see if I could stack up the polyphony a little. But that is a lot easier without jumper wires, hence this PCB to support some more experiments with an Arduino Nano. … Continue reading AY-3-8910 Experimenter PCB Design →