{"id":882,"date":"2025-05-21T06:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:29:13","slug":"pico-dram-tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Pico DRAM Tester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eric Schlaepfer aka TubeTime has released an open source tester for vintage DRAM ICs. It is based on the fabulous Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller. It supports even older chips that use -5V and +12V. I ordered PCBs and the components for building the tester, so let&#8217;s warm up the soldering iron and build something!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pico DRAM Tester\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8voV6Wx6Hg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Schlaepfer aka TubeTime has released an open source tester for vintage DRAM ICs. It is based on the fabulous Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller. It supports even older chips that use -5V and +12V. I ordered PCBs and the components for building the tester, so let&#8217;s warm up the soldering iron and build something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[118,120,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}