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kbeckmann.bsky.social
@kbeckmann.bsky.social
Building and breaking things for fun. he/him
Absolutely. That sounds amazing.
October 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
That’s a good rule to have! But it’s also kind of retail therapy to buy devkits on a whim 🙃
September 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
ECP5 is awesome and the open source toolchain combination yosys/nextpnr/trellis works really well. What kind of issues did you have and which board are you using?
September 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Cool!
August 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Looks like a fun project! Sounds like there’s just some details left. Is this captured from hardware or some sort of software solution?
August 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
...And the beautiful setup
August 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
...And the beautiful setup
August 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's actually way more ergonomic this way, I promise!

[C0D3R C0L0RZ by Throb & T-Rex pouet.net/prod.php?whi... ]
August 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Oh, it just so happens to be a @solder.party RP2350 Stamp XL mounted on a RP2xxx Stamp Carrier XL 😅
August 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Found the root cause of the blurryness. Turns out that I had connected two of the color bits to pins that were tied to the i2c bus on the carrier board I am using, causing the signals to go all the way to the hdmi capture card and affecting the signal a lot.
August 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Got my first capture from the top screen of the Nintendo DS Lite using a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. Captured using PIO, outputting DVI-D using HSTX. There is still some work left to do, but it's getting there!
August 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
(Uhm, ignore the difference in the pattern number, it shows up on both 4 and 5. The point still stands; and I should’ve tested the code on the unit with a connected top screen first and not just rely on an emulator)
August 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Was getting weird traces that didn’t match the expected output from my homebrew test code. Hardware vs emulation strikes again 😅

Was drawing using OpenGL and I guess I queued up too many calls or something.
August 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Did you watch this review of it? :) youtu.be/4xOEIpbxM4w
The Makita Coffee Machine: A Bizarre Battery-Powered Brewer
YouTube video by James Hoffmann
youtu.be
July 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM