I was very honoured to be mentioned in ElReg today as they celebrated 40 years of the ZX81, my first computer. As a volunteer at The National Museum […]
IoT / Shut Up And Take My Money
Joto – The Internet of Whiteboards
A friend was having a bit of a KonMarie moment and decided to remove some of the technology from her life. One item, which she had only just […]
Raspberry Pi
MagPi #77
In this month’s MagPi I do unspeakable things to my front door as part of an ongoing SmartDoor project (more on that soon at this very ‘ere blog). […]
Raspberry Pi
MagPi #76
The rather wonderful MagPi issue 76 is out today. In this issue I’m turning up twice. First as part of the SuperGuide with a look at the Raspberry […]
EV
So, we bought a LEAF – Four Years On
New Toy! New Toy! It has come as a bit of a surprise to me that the most popular post on this ‘ere site has been my original […]
Geek / Shut Up And Take My Money
Do You Want To Build a Strandbeest?
A time-lapse showing the construction of Just Add Sharks‘ Mini Strandbeest kit which I picked up at EMF Camp 2016. It’s a great kit and took about 90 […]
Geek / TNMoC
The Great Digital Race (or ‘A 15-second Fib’)
You can keep your Winter Olympics with all it’s competitive falling and sliding. The real action was last Saturday at The National Museum of Computing where you could […]
Raspberry Pi / Vintage Tech
Raspberry Pi + iPad Screen + iCade = Bartop
Way back when, I bought an iCade. This bartop-style arcade machine was actually a very pretty bluetooth controller. Simply slot your first-generation iPad into the ‘screen’ and pair. […]
Vintage Tech
Re-Capping a ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrums tend to suffer from two major problems. The earlier keyboard membranes were made from the finest Japanese rice paper and would shatter into a million pieces […]
Raspberry Pi / Vintage Tech
ZX Raspberry Version 2
In which our hero downsizes radically A couple of months ago we held the first in the ‘regeneration’ of the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam. I took along my […]