Wireless Power Meter

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...

Solving the MiniDisc Track Naming Problem

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...

Old Stuff : 12V CPU Rail Monitor

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...

Old Stuff – The 100 Watt LED Torch Project

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...

Fixing a Panasonic SL-PJ24A CD Player

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...

Restoring a Brighton Polytechnic Telephone

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...