I have two Nikon camera flash units that are old but working fine. SB-24 SB-20 Need help with 1) flash shoe pinout functions? i.e. how...

I have two Nikon camera flash units that are old but working fine. SB-24 SB-20 Need help with 1) flash shoe pinout functions? i.e. how to trigger manually through the falsh shoe? 2) how to open the units without damage to clean interior dust? 3) compatibility with Canon EOS Rebel series cameras? i.e. will not damage either if attached/used? will flash on camera shutt...

I'm working on a design where a Cortex M3 writes data to an SPI Flash memory. The issue is that I have a data acquisition device that also...

I'm working on a design where a Cortex M3 writes data to an SPI Flash memory. The issue is that I have a data acquisition device that also needs to read the SPI Flash. Both devices can only be SPI masters. The UART on the Cortex M3 is being used for something else and I2C is too slow. Essentially we're trying to make the SPI Flash into a dual-port SPI Flash with external logic. In sea...

I usually dump these junk mails, but something fell out of it. I almost missed it, but it's a 4G USB flash drive. I guess flash is cheaper than...

I usually dump these junk mails, but something fell out of it. I almost missed it, but it's a 4G USB flash drive. I guess flash is cheaper than paper now. The drive costs me several grands, but better than the paper cert. Looking around to buy a few shares of other BK stocks.

sci.electronics.design compact-flash/ide adapter A compact-flash/ide adapter (SD-CF-IDE-A) from dealextreme.com worked well but only as a...

sci.electronics.design compact-flash/ide adapter A compact-flash/ide adapter (SD-CF-IDE-A) from dealextreme.com worked well but only as a master, not as a slave, which is a distinct bother. Anyone know of an ide adapter that works either way, either from dealextreme or another dealer? Hul

The project requires two or more cell phones in a dark container. One of the phones will take a picture with its flash. The other phones will...

The project requires two or more cell phones in a dark container. One of the phones will take a picture with its flash. The other phones will take a picture without flash by holding the equivalent of their shutters open long enough, and with the right timing, to use the flashing phone for illumination. Then each phone in the container will take a turn at taking a picture with a flash, and a...

Anyone remember this flash memory format from the late 90s: They weren't intrinsically ATA compatible so couldn't be directly used as...

Anyone remember this flash memory format from the late 90s: They weren't intrinsically ATA compatible so couldn't be directly used as hard drives storage. Is there a teardown available somewhere online? Anyone know exactly what's inside these things?

I got several of these xenon flash tubes down at Rat Shack on sale for less than 2 bucks...

I got several of these xenon flash tubes down at Rat Shack on sale for less than 2 bucks each. http://www.radioshack.com/long-life-xenon-strobe-tube/2721145.html Anyone have a design for a junk box circuit that could be used for experimenting with these, say firing them from a TTL logic output?

Hi, I tend NOT to install Flash on outward facing machines just to eliminate one more set of bugs, opportunity for advertisers, cookie jar,...

Hi, I tend NOT to install Flash on outward facing machines just to eliminate one more set of bugs, opportunity for advertisers, cookie jar, etc. SWMBO has been increasingly grumbling about not being able to view the (silly) videos her friends send her way. (sigh) So, I'm looking for options on "safe" ways to provide her with that without adding to the amount of maintenance I have to ...

This picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bullet_coming_from_S%26W.jpg Shows a gun being fired, using a high-speed flash. However,...

This picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bullet_coming_from_S%26W.jpg Shows a gun being fired, using a high-speed flash. However, it clearly shows detail in the flame that's blowing out sideways from the cylinder-barrel junction. My understanding of that sort of flame is that it is glowing from internal light, which means that the flash cannot stop its action. Indeed, if...

I have a Sandisk 32G USB flash drive that someone has given me in the hope that I might be able to salvage some data off it. Looks like it...

I have a Sandisk 32G USB flash drive that someone has given me in the hope that I might be able to salvage some data off it. Looks like it was in a laptop and jammed against a wall, resulting in broken solder joints. My PC wasn't detecting it when it was plugged in at all. I cut the drive open and attempted to re-seat the pins and then reflow the solder using a heat gun on a low setti...

Hi to all and happy new year! With small delay :-) Project: I will use winbond 64M spi flash memory as external memory for arduino uno....

Hi to all and happy new year! With small delay :-) Project: I will use winbond 64M spi flash memory as external memory for arduino uno. Now, the idea is to use this memory for data logging and also for running sketch etc. Basically i want to free arduino on board memory as much as possible because now am using cca 90% of it. On the other side i want to expand the program with addition...

I have used a variety of different micros (Z80 onwards) since about 1980 but all the PROM or FLASH based ones (e.g. H8/300 or Atmel 90S1200)...

I have used a variety of different micros (Z80 onwards) since about 1980 but all the PROM or FLASH based ones (e.g. H8/300 or Atmel 90S1200) were programmed externally, via a spring-contact adaptor. We have one product using an H8/300 with an external 28C256 32kbyte parallel EEPROM for extra code, and we quickly found this could not be written with code running in it! No sh*t Sherlock, as t...

I have a project in mind using small Flash RAM and a cheap CPU to substitute for the old TTL level CMOS RAM used on arcade games. This has...

I have a project in mind using small Flash RAM and a cheap CPU to substitute for the old TTL level CMOS RAM used on arcade games. This has come up because the NVRAM that is currently being used is getting hard to find at prices under $7 to $9USD. Something like the M25P05-AVMN6P (512k or 64K x 8) or similar chips are $0.20 in single quantities. The size of CMOS RAM we are replacing ...

Anyone have any pointers to SPICE models for Xenon flash tubes? Or at least data sheets that have the I-V characteristics described or...

Anyone have any pointers to SPICE models for Xenon flash tubes? Or at least data sheets that have the I-V characteristics described or graphed? (This is for a hobby project involving discarded photoflash units, a 19 year old kid, and various web pages on building coil guns, by the way). Thanks in advance. -- My liberal friends think I'm a conservative kook. My conservative friends...

We're planning a new universal boot loader for a family of ST processors. The uP would host the loader in a bit of local flash and read an...

We're planning a new universal boot loader for a family of ST processors. The uP would host the loader in a bit of local flash and read an outboard serial flash to get the specific application code and one or more FPGA configurations. So, how many config bits might there be for a modern mid-range FPGA doing a moderately complex application? I think we could enable compression too. ...

Does anybody know what chip is it? Spansion S99-50198, FBGA, made for a "big OEM" that told Spansion not to give specs to anybody? I do know...

Does anybody know what chip is it? Spansion S99-50198, FBGA, made for a "big OEM" that told Spansion not to give specs to anybody? I do know it is 128Mbit NOR Flash kinda like their S29GL128P so I can figure out most of its specs with regular CFI query but may be somebody know more so I wouldn't have to waste my time reverse-engineering those? I don't care about their "Top Secret" data or...

During the holiday, I saw a tree with the old C9 incan flasher bulbs. Those are the bulbs which have an internal bi-metal contactor which causes...

During the holiday, I saw a tree with the old C9 incan flasher bulbs. Those are the bulbs which have an internal bi-metal contactor which causes that bulb to flash on and off. I was thinking that the modern LED light strings can do all sorts of effects, such as chaser motions, color changing, and much more. But I dont see any way to make individual LEDs to randomly flash like these old C7...

Hi I have been looking into the GigaDevice GD32 Cortex M3 microcontroller It has a REALLY nice price performance ratio So I dug a little...

Hi I have been looking into the GigaDevice GD32 Cortex M3 microcontroller It has a REALLY nice price performance ratio So I dug a little deeper, and found that they do not integrate the flash and microcontroller on the same die as a normal microcontroller, but instead they use a single die variant of logic and core, and glues a serial flash on top of that Link to picture: h

Hello, One of my harddisks just failed ? I am not sure yet, but it remains undetected, or partially damage to motherboard. I think what...

Hello, One of my harddisks just failed ? I am not sure yet, but it remains undetected, or partially damage to motherboard. I think what happened was as follows: 1. I may have had haste, I pushed a flash/ssd card into the card reader, but it was stuck in diagonal. Because it has long metal plates on the SSD card, these plates may have caused a short circuit ?!?!?!?! 2. Other possibil...

Gents, I wondering if any of you have information on companies that can perform this service. We are looking for a SLC Nand flash that can...

Gents, I wondering if any of you have information on companies that can perform this service. We are looking for a SLC Nand flash that can operate at high temperature reliably (near 200C) Turns out the older SLC NAND chip would do this regularly but as the die shrinks and density increases have occurred, the high temperature performance has fallen off. I'm looking for a company...