Month: January 2023

  • PIC Digital Thermometer and Clock

    This project is a reasonably simple large, four digit LED clock. It has the added bonus of being able to monitor up to two temperature sensors if required; one inside and the other outside possible. I’ve tested this with one of the sensors connected via a 5m piece of cable with no problems. Please read…

  • A significant part has now been transferred

    So it’s taken several long days and a lot of hacking around with WordPress but I’ve finally managed to persuade WordPress to work the way I like doing things, and have now moved a significant portion of the original content over. Funny how when you are copying and pasting you notice mistakes and before you…

  • Acorn System 1 Replica – 19″ Rack

    The System 1 starts out as two euro cards stacked one on top of the other; CPU at the bottom with Keypad/Display on the top. It’s nice, compact and very pretty, but rather useless as soon as you want to start hooking it up to things. Quickly you realise that you are going to need…

  • Acorn System 1 Replica – Eurocard extender

    During expansion card development, it’s handy to be able to poke around the card with an oscilloscope or multi-meter probe, but you can’t do that when the card is seated in it’s home position in the rack. The euro extender card plugs into the backplane slot, and then allows the expansion card to be plugged…