Thomas Capricelli archive
Category: electronic
September 12, 2025
VGA output for the CPC 6128
I got this Amstrad CPC 6128 with a bulky CRT monitor. I’m pretty sure ‘true’ retrocomputing fans would enjoy the ‘genuine’ experience it provides, but I don’t. The monitor also contains the power supply for the CPC. Both the CRT itself and this PSU are the kind of electronic that don’t deal well with time. […]
March 23, 2025
KiCad: how to publish your PCB in 3D
Introduction Among a huge list of great features, KiCad allows to display the PCB in 3D, even with components and such. This is extremely useful while routing. This post is about providing the same functionnality, but on a web page. This has no real usefulness, but it adds a huge wow ! effect to your […]
January 31, 2024
Custom logo on miniware MHP50
The documentation is pretty terse: “160×80 pixels 16-bit (RGB656) BMP”. Here’s how it can be done, at least from linux, but probably also from most other operating systems. From what I understand, neither gimp nor (imagemagick) convert can create them. That’s kinda shocking as those were the most obvious choices, and linux tools have a […]