September Thank-you

October 1, 2018 XTronical 0

September has come and gone and Autumn draws near and time for the Thank-you’s. This month I’d like to say thank you to long term supporter Chris L. and also Steven Y.  With work commitments slowing down posts and videos these contributions mean a lot to keep me going as […]

256×320 Colour LCD (5408 driver)

September 9, 2018 XTronical 0

256×320 colour LCD screens are widely and cheaply available and very often come on a board that we can connect up to an Arduino Uno (and some other boards types). It’s then just a simple manner of adding the required libraries and trying out an example. This is all we […]

August Thank you’s

September 7, 2018 XTronical 0

Bit late on this post due to holiday/vacation so sorry for that. Again appreciate the support, love doing the content but the donations help to get some feedback from people, which is great and help towards hosting the site. For August I’d like to say thank you to Shurie B. […]

6: Frogger Completion

August 20, 2018 XTronical 2

Well, here it is, after writing the first post on this on 28th October 2017 (that’s 10 months ago!),  I’ve finally finished all that I wanted to do with it. That doesn’t mean the game is 100% arcade complete but it’s where I want to end this – for now […]

DACAudio 4.0.1 Released

August 19, 2018 XTronical 0

Minor bug fix in this version affecting the sequence class and also a change to the default behaviour for how sounds “mix” when played. See the libraries download page for more information.

DacAudio 4.0 Released

August 16, 2018 XTronical 0

Version 4.0 is a main update to the DacAudio software as it now adds in one main feature and some nice enhancements. The main part of this release is the ability to play more than one sound at once, whatever that sound is, whether it’s 2 WAV’s or a WAV […]

DacAudio 3.1 V3

August 13, 2018 XTronical 4

DacAudio 3.1 Version 3 is now available on the downloads page and it is advised you upgrade to this version as it fixes issues with large files over 80K or so. Under all the previous versions large files would not play at all or play for a limited amount of […]

Driving Stepper Motors (28BYJ-48)

August 11, 2018 XTronical 2

A supporting video is available for this article : Brief Introduction to Stepper Motors A stepper motor behaves just like a normal motor in so much that it has a rotating shaft but that’s where the similarity mostly ends. When hooked up to some sort of controlling device the shaft […]