by charles | Feb 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
The sourcecode for this project is in the post, but i am not a coder so expect it to be terribly unoptimized. So.. this is a pipe dream I’ve had for a while, and in this post I will (attempt) to describe how it all came together into a nice little project. I...
by charles | Apr 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
I recently watched Techmoan’s YouTube video on using a PS2 keyboard to title tracks on a MiniDisk player. Cool stuff. I am a fan of the MiniDisk form factor despite it falling out of favour before I really got into it properly. So Techmoan used a PS2 keyboard to title...
by charles | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Old Stuff : This was posted many years ago to my old-ass website – thought i’d not let it go to waste. This is some time from 2015. ~~~~ Old Stuff – 12V CPU Rail Monitor The Idea This is not a wholly original idea but there is still not much reference to the idea...
by charles | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Old Stuff : This was posted many years ago to my old-ass website – thought i’d not let it go to waste. This is some time from 2015. ~~~~ Old Stuff – The 100 Watt LED Torch Project Introduction Have you ever looked at a little pocket torch and wanted...
by charles | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Just a quick(ish) post about how I managed to fix a Panasonic CD player SL-PJ24A, using parts from a Technics CD player SL-PJ26A. I was gifted my grandparents’ old Panasonic Hi-Fi setup a few weeks ago, vintage from around 1990 if the date codes are to be...
by charles | Aug 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Brighton Polytechnic was the name given to the merger between the School of Art and Brighton College of Technology, which itself became the University of Brighton in 1992. The University of Brighton began replacing it’s PBX system with VoIP in 2014-2015, meaning...
by charles | Nov 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Just a quick one, the university took us to Amberley Museum to go see some vintage electronics and some high voltage demonstrations. Video is...
by charles | Nov 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hacking an old UPS for Massive Capacity and Massive Cost Savings Aims Take a large capacity UPS with dead batteries, which is worth little more than scrap money, and re-use/’Frankenstein’ it using cheap car batteries. If batteries with a larger capacity than...
by charles | Apr 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
“A 2016 series of Robot Wars was first announced online via a BBC News article on the 13th January 2016” – Robot Wars Wikia. — For Katie, timing couldn’t have been better for her. In February 2016 one of her modules at the University of Brighton was...
by charles | Apr 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is more of a write up than one of my usual posts, so bare that in mind. I'm sure this post may be full of inaccuracies but this represents my best effort as well as me hoping what i learnt might help other people. Introduction This isn’t a cheat guide on...
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