#oscillator

· 2mo ago

The Seemingly Impossible Oscillator https://hackaday.com/2026/07/14/the-seemingly-impossible-oscillator/ #Classichacks #Parts #Avalanchebreakdown #Oscillator #Reverseavalancheoscillator

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The Seemingly Impossible Oscillator

Back in the days when an integrated circuit meant a simple but expensive device such as a 741 or a 555, most electronics enthusiasts made do with discrete transistor circuits. The common emitter am…

Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

· 6mo ago

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Yep, it’s been half an hour and no dropouts… I’m calling it, my lovely new BBC Micro B is fixed :) Yay! Soooo excited to play with it tomorrow 🥳 Here’s a before video: https://vimeo.com/1181523949#t=26 And an after: https://vimeo.com/1182284426 And the issue, for anyone else who stumbles on this thread, was the 16MHz oscillator circuit (marked X1 on the main board). Also, I could only find a lot of 50 of them, so if anyone needs one, just hit me up and I’ll send it to you :) Huge thanks to the folks on the stardot.org.uk for sharing the fix: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=246304#p246304 #BBCMicro #BBCMicroModelB #video #dropout #issue #fix #x1 #oscillator

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Screen flicker on BBC micro scart/hdmi adapter

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