Newsletter, PiDP parts tester, Kicads

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Oscar Vermeulen

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Apr 27, 2026, 9:13:26 AM (3 days ago) Apr 27

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All,

With apologies for not being online as much as I should:

the latest 'Newsletter' with a PiDP-1 section - including an intro to Bill Ezell's earth-shattering innovations, here:

https://obsolescence.dev/obsolescence-newsletter-may-2026.html

Kits now come with a little tester board (always remove the Pi before using it!), which can be helpful when a LED or switch does not work after building the kit. It's been there for a while, but I forgot to link to it :-)

https://obsolescence.dev/pidp-parts-tester.html

Also, the above page contains links to the Kicad project files. Links to them sloshed around the Obsolescence site and the Google Groups, now they are all in one place.

As always, feedback is very welcome. I might be a bit slow to respond, but that is not due to a lack of interest in feedback!

Kind regards,

Oscar.

Bill E

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Apr 28, 2026, 7:05:16 AM (2 days ago) Apr 28

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Thanks for the praise!

To everyone else, I need feedback! Even if you aren't going to run this, take a look at the 5,000+ lines of documentation to see what it's all about and let me know if there are errors. If you run the mod version or use the assembler, give be bug reports. There's 25,000+ lines of code and docs I've churned out, I'm sure there are issues.