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DCF77 is a German VLF transmitting station that broadcasts a time signal across Europe on 77.5 kHz. Thus a common sight in a European home is a clock emblazoned with …read more Continue reading A Super-Accurate Clock Using a Tiny Microcontroller
The Sinclair ZX81 was a masterpiece of Sir Clive’s desire to get the most out of the least hardware, being about as minimalist as it was possible to get and …read more Continue reading Every ZX81 Expansion Card You Ever Wanted, All At Once
If you spend any time near a gym, you may be familiar with Bluetooth heart rate monitors — a small pack of electronics mounted on a strap round the chest …read more Continue reading An Open Heart Rate Monitor
There are many uninterruptible power supply (UPS) solutions for the Raspberry Pi that take the form of HATs with a battery on board, but they’re not suitable for every situation. …read more Continue reading A UPS For Your Pi That’s a Little Different
If you had an 8-bit computer in the 1980s and bought a speech synthesiser for it, what you got was invariably an alophone-based synthesiser using the SP0256 or similar. You …read more Continue reading It’s The Speech Synthesiser You Wanted, For The Computer You Had
We’re at a fortunate moment: microcontrollers available at modest prices are edging into the capability level previously reserved for full-fat systems and can, through emulation, run software beyond classic 8-bit …read more Continue reading A 386 PC For Your RP2350
Apple hardware has always been proprietary, sometimes to an extreme. But that’s not to say that it’s impossible to make something that does the same job, which is what [DosFox1] …read more Continue reading This Mac Is Open Source Hardware
Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. …read more Continue reading All The Best Computers Boot To… Python?
The revival in film photography has brought a range of specialist films to tempt the experimenter, as well as increased the popularity of loading your own cartridges. But perforating the …read more Continue reading This Machine Makes 35mm (Almost) Film
The progression of the web browser from a tool for simple static information browsing into a do-everything computing environment has been inexorable, with package after package making the jump. Today …read more Continue reading It’s GNU Radio Companion, But in the Browser