Introduction Early in my electronics prototyping career, I decided that creating a reconfigurable hardware prototyping system would be useful and fun. There are lots of these things around, but none quite worked the way I wanted them to. The premise is simple: make some plastic mounting sheets with a grid of holes and create electronics […]
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Introduction Word clocks are fun. There are many variations on the basic principle of showing the time with language. Still, most versions are constructed on an array, with word fragments illuminated and read off left-to-right, top-to-bottom, just like you’re reading this now. I’ve encountered numerous variations of the basic scheme, making it difficult to list
I enjoy creating various small and large projects, but I often forget to document most of them. This page mainly consists of photos of my current arcade machine build and notes about the components and suppliers. I hope this information will be helpful to someone. The Concept The project aimed to create a mid-sized arcade
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I was looking around the storage rack in my main workshop when I stumbled upon an old Lenovo laptop, specifically a T520 model. These are nicely made, solid machines. They are rather hefty but nice to use. The keyboard and trackpoint are great, and the screen is also OK. This got me thinking; I have
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When working from a small space, it’s always a challenge to make the best use of every inch of it. During lockdown in the middle of 2020, I decided to gut my whole workshop and store everything in my second shop. I took lots of measurements and started to sketch out ideas to best make
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I needed to replace my ageing NAS with something more modern and hackable. My old system was born out of need – I built something from parts I had lying around – an old laptop running NAS4FREE and a few external drives for data. I spent nothing but a bit of time. It was clunky
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Desks are wasteful—they collect junk and waste precious space with their fixed shape and hard-to-move bulkiness. Why not just hang some monitors on a stand and get a comfortable chair? I’ll worry about the keyboard rest another day. I do a lot of CAD work as an electronics designer and felt that even a dual-monitor
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