Electronic Projects

Here you will find a complete portfolio of projects I've created or still working on.
Older projects will be added as I find their files and make them presentable

S2K51

A fully retro Intel MCS-51 system. This processor, like many others, is long discontinued. Unlike commodity microcontrollers on the market today, it has it's full bus exposed- This is old school, like your 6502 or Z-80. Indeed this processor has been used in arcade games, and occasionally in computer systems.

MSP430 SPEEDBOARD

This is a small, cheap and cheerful development board for the Texas Instruments' MSP430F5172 microcontroller. When I needed a board, I found that TI didn't actually have any for this processor, so I got a bit frustrated and made my own, and decided to make it the shape of Sonic's head. There's many little references to specific Sonic games on this board aside from the obvious, can you find them all?

Reverse Engineering an LCD Display

In April 2025 I was given a box of MITEL IP desk phones that would otherwise have ended up in e-waste. The LCD used in these phonesis a graphics type, is pretty awesome AND it's backlit. Turns out it's proprietary for the product. The manufacturer, Solomon Goldentek told me so, and told me get lost when I asked for a datasheet. Well is it really that proprietary? We do some old-school hacking to get it working on a MSP430 microcontroller.