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 […]
Geek
EMF Camp 2016 IN 3D
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 […]
Raspberry Pi / Vintage Tech
Building The ZX Raspberry – Part Four
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+ […]
Vintage Tech
BBC Micro Model B Memory Repair
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 […]
Vintage Tech
Building The ZX Raspberry – Part Three
In which our hero triumphs over excessive wiring Back in Part 2, I completed the USB keyboard conversion of an old, abandoned ZX Spectrum. The next, and final, […]
Raspberry Pi / Vintage Tech
Building The ZX Raspberry – Part Two
In which our hero enters the (keyboard) matrix… Ok, time to burn stuff. After hatching a plan in Part One, I’m now ready to proceed with my Frankenspeccy. […]
Raspberry Pi / Vintage Tech
Building The ZX Raspberry – Part One
In which our hero plans and schemes Despite wanting to convert a ZX Spectrum into a USB keyboard for some time, I held off to wait for the […]
Vintage Tech
Restoring a VIC-20
I purchased this poor thing last week. After some initial mucking about, life was breathed into it once more. I had a a bit of fun getting the […]
Bletchley Park
The Imitation Game: Fact and Fiction
To many of us in the technical community, the story of Alan Turing is well known; a tragedy of a tortured genius who saved a world that may […]
EV
So We Bought a Leaf – Our FAQ on owning an Electric Car in the UK
So, you like the sound of going electric, but how does it all work? When Mrs E and I started considering an ‘EV’ (as the cool kids will […]