• Projects
  
  MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

  Jun 16, 2024

  You gets what you pays for.

  Macintosh 68K ARM
• Blog
  Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics

  May 16, 2022

  Observations on Popek & Goldberg's well-known paper, and modern virtualisation issues

  CompArch
• Projects
  
  A small ode to the CRT

  Feb 8, 2022

  You think your monitor is bad?

  RaspberryPi CRT
• Blog
  
  Mac SE/30 odyssey

  Oct 2, 2021

  I like old Macs and I cannot lie

  Macintosh 68K
• Projects
  
  32-bit hat, with LEDs

  Sep 15, 2021

  For some reason, I made a Trilby with an RGB LED strip wrap and Cortex-M0

  LEDs ARM
• Projects
  
  Colourclock

  Mar 19, 2018

  Because numbers are too easy to read

  LEDs ARM
• Blog
  
  Pickle plus mains

  Mar 17, 2018

  Lighting up a pickle

  Dangerous Science
• Projects
  
  Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

  Aug 12, 2017

  The gift of 3D paper. Again.

  SVG Perl
• Projects
  
  Internet of kitchen lighting, with OSC

  Jan 3, 2017

  Now my kitchen countertop lights can form a botnet too!

  IoT ESP8266
• Blog
  
  Axio.ms site refresh

  May 29, 2016

  Updating the design of axio.ms from circa 1998 to circa 2011!
• Projects
  
  STM32F0 Discovery Kit hack saw hack

  Jul 22, 2012

  Turning an STM32F0DISCOVERY into two dev boards.

  ARM hacks
• Projects
  
  3D graphics on an ancient scope

  Mar 5, 2012

  A 3D vector display on a vintage oscilloscope.

  AVR
• Projects
  
  My Nixie clock

  Nov 12, 2011

  A copper mantlepiece clock with glowing neon tubes.

  AVR Metalwork
• Projects
  
  Iiyama, meet Xilinx

  May 11, 2011

  Video from a Gameboy Advance displayed on an old monitor using a repurposed FPGA-based prototype PCI card.

  FPGA
• Projects
  
  Bitmap projector

  Apr 27, 2011

  A 1950s-era digital projector, using a tiny Nokia LCD.

  AVR
• Projects
  
  Beagleboard LCD hack

  Apr 10, 2011

  A reused laptop LCD panel attached to a Beagleboard OMAP3 computer the tricky way.

  ARM AVR hacks
• Notes
  BTM400_6B usage notes

  Mar 17, 2011

  Notes on using a cheap BTM400_6B Bluetooth module with microcontrollers.

  Bluetooth
• Projects
  
  Jenclock

  Nov 9, 2010

  A lovely VFD table clock. The 'starburst' tubes provide four-letter fun!

  AVR VFD
• Projects
  
  WRTAG, a JTAG box made from a router

  May 1, 2010

  A JTAG box made from a repurposed D-Link DSL502T router.

  Linux FPGA
• Projects
  
  miniPOV: the gift of light

  Apr 28, 2009

  A tiny Persistence of Vision device.

  AVR LEDs
• Projects
  
  Maths Is Fun and Useful

  Apr 18, 2009

  The gift of graph, AKA quality time with a scalpel.

  SVG Perl
• Projects
  
  OctoVFD

  Apr 27, 2008

  A Russian VFD lighty-uppy thing.

  AVR VFD Metalwork
• Projects
  
  The Old Stuff bucket

  Jan 1, 2006

  Here's a catch-all of various projects from yesteryear.

  GBA ARM

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