Category: Blog

  • 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…