• Same old excuses


    What can I say… I’m a busy chap. I’ve been so busy with work and a large personal project that I’ve not really had much time for “fun” things, that said, it’s funny how one thing leads to another. I’ve been working on an all consuming huge project and I needed to take a break.…


  • A 4-bit CPU


    I’ve been insanely busy over the last few months. The human malware crisis has kept me busy at work and I’ve got so many projects on the go that I don’t know whether I’m coming or going half the time… so I thought I’d add another couple of projects to the pile to keep things…


  • Evil genius control desk


    So I’ve been asked to build, what’s being called, “the evil genius control desk”. In reality it’s a studio lighting and audio control solution that has some unique features.  The studio space in question is divided into several areas and split over two levels. It needs multi-channel lighting and audio control for each area, and…


  • An evil genius control desk – work begins


    For the last 18 months, work has been crazy. Things calmed down around Christmas 2020 and I was hoping to get back into hobby mode but the universe had other ideas. Christmas eve the river burst it’s banks and flooded the house and workshop. I’ve been dealing with the fallout from that ever since.  Thank…


  • Acorn System 1 Speed Test


    Lots going on with this project right now, but I thought I’d do just a very quick update.Another batch of PCBs arrived a couple of days ago and I’m slowly working my way through assembling them. The one thing I’m pleased with is that by replacing the relatively slow (in terms of access speed) EPROM…


  • Acorn System 1 Memory Board and Dataman programmer update


    Last week I’d had enough of that Dataman programmer. It would sometimes work but more often that not Windows would fail to recognise the programmer. I’d tried it on Windows XP and three different Windows 10 machines (one was a brand new out the box machine) and it was always the same. So I sent…