Blog History

2016

May

• 27 - Shield actual board
• 14 - Shield part placement
• 12 - FTDI USB<->serial and Zok testing

2015

October

• 30 - Winter is coming .. back to Zikzak hacking!

2014

December

• 23 - Zikzak SBC rev3 ... good as gold!
• 10 - Revisions so far

November

• 19 - Zikzak SBC rev1 and rev2 comparison

October

• 04 - Robot cars.. Using hdpe plastic

September

• 04 - Zik80 SBC - working very well

August

• 21 - zik80 SBC edition

July

• 10 - Contacting us ..
• 10 -
• 05 - So far.. success! eZ80 base pcb working as expected

June

• 30 - Zik80 (and related) Revisions
• 27 - GPU rev 2 and base/cpu pcb on their way!
• 04 - GPU in action!
• 03 - Power and GPU prototype pcbs arrive!

May

• 26 - Sent gpu and power pcb to the boardhouse
• 22 - GPU pcb schem is nearly done.. time to route and send to boardhouse
• 06 - Power section of the pcb

April

• 04 - Geek and sundry..

March

• 28 - Power supply sorted
• 21 - Ordering the little sundries
• 10 - Rev 1 cartridge pcb received!

February

• 28 - Initial version of cartridge pcb design - zikcart rev1
• 27 - Cartridge design
• 27 - Cartridge Details
• 24 - On modularizing..
• 21 - Spoke to soon ..... so maybe back to Z180 :(
• 19 - LQFP100 soldering .. trialing the ez80
• 14 - Z80, Z180, or ez80 for the brain? (again)
• 12 - On eeproms for the carts
• 12 - Zikburner schematics
• 11 - Z80, Z180, or ez80 for the brain?
• 10 -
• 10 -
• 08 - On I/O chip feeding data to GPU, and collision with hsync
• 07 - Reference and Tables
• 07 - Tools and Techniques
• 07 - Zikburner
• 07 - The ZikZak Console/Computer
• 07 - Developer Blog
• 07 -
• 06 - Edge connectors and "old technology"
• 06 - Some old media, coming back ..
• 06 - ZikZak Multimedia
• 05 -
• 05 - Zik80 - kicking off, design goals
• 05 - Where it began..
• 05 -
• 04 - Welcome to your new DokuWiki
• 04 - Formatting Syntax
• 04 - DokuWiki

2013

December

• 08 - PlayGround