24-port GPIO on a PCI card

btgpio

So you've got a project running on an x86 board and you'd like some GPIO pins. Whether you want to read a few buttons, light up a few LEDs, put an accelerometer in your computer or whatever, you've got a problem. Luckily there's an easy way to get 24 GPIO pins on an x86 board using a PCI card for just a few bucks. The key component of the build is a PCI TV Tuner card made by Hauppague under the … [Read more...]

Digital tuner reverse engineering

hvr-1600-i2c-sniffing

Hackaday alum [Ian Lesnet] tipped us off about some reverse engineering of the HVR-1600, an analog and digital television encoder/tuner. The project was spawned when [Devin] noticed his Hauppauge HVR-1600 didn't tune channels in Linux quite as well as it did in Windows. He had a hunch this was due to improper initialization settings for either the tuner chip or the demodulator. To fix this he … [Read more...]