Drink tea and make things
Let’s look at one of the world’s first mobile phones - the Motorola 8500x - released in the mid 1980s for £3,000. That’s over £7,000 today!
How clever engineers made a cheap computer powerful
How do you get more than 64K of RAM in an 8 bit computer? Let's look at how memory banking works!
Let's explore how 8bit computers worked, looking at their memory, interrupts and DMA.
How to set up Z88DK to develop C programs for the ZX Spectrum Next in about 20 minutes
How to make Amiga like effects on an 8 bit Spectrum
I think I’ve managed to make Home assistant tell me how much money the solar power I’m generating would be worth from the grid, and how much running things off solar/battery instead of the grid is saving me.
This is just a test of some image loading code I found online. If it works there should be a nice scaled image, and an image gallery.
My workshed is mess, I can barely get into it and I have a bunch of projects that need starting. Let’s fix that… Over the summer it was way too hot to go in my shed - a problem I need to solve for next year - and it just turned into a storage area, with things being pushed in and the door hastily closed.
I’ve got an IBM Model M keyboard and like using it on my PC, but one of its problems is the lack of Windows keys. There’s a bunch of keyboard shortcuts I use almost daily and not having a Windows key makes it annoying.
After a week of testing and tweaking, my DIY solar shed upgrade is complete. And it seems to work pretty well! Last week I bought a solar panel, inverter and some lead acid batteries and set up a solar system in my shed, with the intention of powering my servers.