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Welcome,
I am Juan and I have been interested in electronics and technology in general since I can remember.

Here you will find some of my personal projects. I will be posting new and old projects when I get around to documenting them.

My main interest is in electronic hardware design, and while university provides some foundations, I find that I have learned far more on my own through books such as The Art of Electronics and its lab manual, Learning the Art of Electronics  (books that I wholeheartedly recommend); and projects like my 6502-compatible computer made from 74XX ICs.

I also enjoy programming, one of the projects I've been working on and off lately is an assembler and simulator for a RISC-V inspired 16 bit ISA, which hopefully will eventually be implemented in an FPGA or with 74xx ICs.

Other interests include RC model submarines, some of which you'll find in this blog, and more recently CNC machines (handy for making PCBs and the occasional slide-rule).

I hope you find this site of interest. Greetings from Spain.

You can find me on the EEVBlog forum, GitHub, Thingiverse, the AMS forum, and on 6502.org. I am also on Youtube. If you want to contact me, please use the contact form in this blog.


"What do you mean by Python API, I've just spent a morning shaving off 400 bytes of my microcontroller's program memory."

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