Author: joe.farr@gmail.com

  • Linear Voltage Regulators

    The humble 7805 and associated family of linear voltage regulators have been in wide use for many years. When they became available to the hobbyist in the 1970’s they were a bit pricy but with the addition of a couple of cheap capacitors they meant you could build a pretty good and nicely regulated PSU…

  • 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…