Collaborate Disseminate
Anyone whose first computing experience came in the form of an 8-bit home computer will tell you about booting straight into a BASIC interpreter. The machine invited you to program …read more Continue reading All The Best Computers Boot To BASIC
Quite a few in our community make a bit of cash on the side by selling our creations, and it’s not uncommon to find that a project which catches your …read more Continue reading How Packaging Can Kill An Electronics Microbusiness
A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igniting the charge. We could think of a variety of …read more Continue reading Blow Those Pyros With A Telephone!
One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content …read more Continue reading AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?
When the analog TV signals were turned off in most places around fifteen years ago, their replacement took the form of a set of digital multiplexes. ATSC for North America, …read more Continue reading The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered
The AM29000 series of processors were AMD’s entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s. It was a time when ARM was still a niche architecture …read more Continue reading A 1990s Homebrew OS With GUI And Web Browser, In AM29000 Machine Code
It’s likely that even those of us who have never picked up a guitar in our lives will recognize the sound of an electric guitar with a fuzz box effects …read more Continue reading An Electronic Explanation Of 1960s Fuzz Boxes
Many pieces of consumer electronics are build down to a price, and the corners cut show up in their performance. The Gameboy Advance from Nintendo is no exception: its audio …read more Continue reading At Last, A Gameboy Advance With Decent Audio
The Casio F-91W digital watch is perhaps one of the most successful pieces of consumer electronics ever made, having quietly supplied the essential function of an inexpensive and accurate LCD …read more Continue reading The Casio F-91W As A Contactless Payment Device.
It’s quite likely that many readers will have harbored dreams of owning, or at least driving, a steam engine of some kind. [James Hervey-Bathurst] was lucky enough to do so …read more Continue reading So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next?