An 8-bit heart and 64-bit life
It has come as a bit of a surprise to me that the most popular post on this ‘ere site has been my original guide to owning an electric car in the UK. Mind you, when I think back to how confusing the whole thing was, maybe I shouldn’t be…
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 witness the inaugural Great Digital Race. A simple proposition: How far can you get a computer through the Fibonacci sequence in…
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. A number of iPad games supported it, but I never really enjoyed the experience. So, I decided to turn it into a…
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 should a flea with a penchant for bean-based produce be within 100 miles of the area. More complicated are the electrolytic capacitors.…
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 ZX Raspberry for all to see and wonder over. One eager and Sinclair-experienced attendee soon put me in my place. “Shame it’s…
You know when you’re having that long-overdue clean-out and you find a few things stashed away you’d forgotten about? From when you said “that’ll make a great project one day” then tossed it in your equivalent of the bargain bin? Just happened to me. A few years ago, I got…
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 minutes to put together. And here’s the result (with a little help from a hairdryer): What’s a Strandbeest?
EMF Camp is a bi-annual gathering of creatives, geeks, makers and anyone with a passion for, well, anything. Over three days in a Guildford field we attended (and gave) talks, learnt new skills in workshops, danced to chiptune musicians bathed in a light show created by amateur laser enthusiasts and…
In which our hero is unable to leave well alone A little epilogue to the ZX Raspberry project. I came into possession of a very dead ZX Spectrum+ and, following my own personal rule of ‘it gets fixed or it gets modded’, I decided that it was time for a ZX…
So, what do you do when your BBC Model B looks like this?
You throw it in the skip of course!
Nah, just kidding, you Google like a mad thing. What you learn is that screen corruption like this is a common memory error and your trusty Beeb might not be done for after all.
