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Croc clip connector for the Raspberry Pi
Andrew Gale (@pocketmoneytron) from pocketmoneytronics recently sent me a couple of his brilliant croc clip connector boards for the Raspberry Pi he had made.The board is very simple, well designed and...
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My First Electronic Kits
During a recent exploration of the loft I came across two of my electronics kits I was brought by my parents during my teens.Salter Science Introduction to Electronics I was given this kit for...
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RasPiO Pro Hat
I recently backed Alex Eames (@RasPiTV) Kickstartercampaign for a RasPiO Pro Hat which is a small add-on board for the Raspberry Pi and is designed to protect and put your GPIO ports in numerical...
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Racal 836 Repair
Racal 836 I picked up an old Racal 836 32MHz Universal Counter-Timer (circa 1972) at a radio rally last year. The unit looked good, powered up and all the digits worked. However having carried out some...
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BBC micro:bit Pedestrian Crossing
I started this project by trying out the pre-written code that came with the IET Pedestrian Crossing resource. The aim is to use the BBC micro:bit to develop a prototype for a pedestrian crossing for a...
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Marconi TF2438 Repair
I recently got an old 80’s vintage Marconi TF2438 Universal Counter Timer from a fellow forum member. The unit looked very good and powered up but was sometimes intermittent. The unit has an...
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Mega:bit
During July last year Andrew Gale (@PocketMoneyTron) tweeted details of his mega:bit which is a lasercut scaled-up model of the BBC Micro:bit. This looked interesting and I thought it would be great to...
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Thurlby LA160 Logic Analyser
I recently acquired a Thurlby LA160B Logic Analyser. My unit is RS branded and was made some time during the late 80’s. It has 16 data channels and runs at 20 MHz, with various clock and trigger...
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Marconi TF 2411 Nixie Counter Repair
Well I seemed to have inherited another Nixie counter. This one is made by Marconi Instruments and is 70’s vintage. The TF 2411 is a 50MHz counter which offers a wide range of functions, has three...
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CamJam September 2016
I traveled up to Cambridge on Saturday 17th September to attend another excellent CamJam. I arrived early to help setup, this meant leaving home at an unreasonable hour for a Saturday. I chatted to...
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Trick or Treat Detector
Detect those pesky kids before they get to the front door. Put it outside to spook the Trick-or Treaters as they walk up to your door. This project is motion activated using a PIR sensor, upon...
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12th Egham Raspberry Jam
On Sunday 16th October I travelled down Egham to attend the 12th Egham Raspberry Jam, it's my first time I have attended this particular jam. It was held at the Gartner UK HQ offices, which was easy...
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Teleporting Ducks
The excellent Python MU editor makes it so easy to get BBC micro:bits talking to each other using simple radio data communication. No magic required, just physics.After attending a brilliant talk /...
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Micro Operation
Take one classic Operation game and connect a BBC micro:bit to it, what could be more fun. Having seen a similar project I thought I would have a go myself, so I had a quick browse on eBay and found...
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Electronic Christmas Decoration
And now for something completely different…While perusing the Christmas tat in Poundland /Poundworld recently, I found some cheap battery powered Christmas lights and thought I could hack these. I...
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CamJam December 2016
On Saturday 3rd December I travelled up to Cambridge to attend another excellent CamJam. I had a good look around the market place as well as some of the show and tell items.Trevor Olsson had brought...
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Micro Simon
I recently stumbled across some excellent micro:bit resources on this website, I liked the look of the micro Python Simon game project so I built the project to try it out. Micro Python Simon game...
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13th Egham Raspberry Jam
On Sunday 22nd January I travelled down Egham to attend the 13th Egham Raspberry Jam, it's my second time I have attended this particular jam. It was held at the Gartner UK HQ offices, which was easy...
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A Marvelous Micro:bit Afternoon
On Thursday 16th Feb I went along to the National Museum of Computing to show some of my micro:bit projects at their Bytes Festival. I was sharing a table with the amazing David Whale and Nevil Hunt...
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A blast from the 8-bit past
I recently re-discovered my vintage VIC20 computer which was first released in 1981. It had been hiding in the loft of plenty for some years so I got it down and decided to give it a whirl to see if...
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