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Archive for September 2014
Intermittent Electronics
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Sunday September 14 2014
Been slacking a bit. Will catch up with this blogging malarkey sooner or later. For now, have an unrepresentative prototype. Rat's nest of wiring.
Archive for June 2013
Radio-4-Matic - AC power update
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Sunday June 30 2013
Analogue electronics? Terrifying. And something other than the Sunday Things? Heresy! ... I suspect more through luck than judgement, I've successfully upgraded the Radio-4-Matic to run complete ...
Archive for January 2013
Radio-4-Matic - part 4 - Radio 4
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Saturday January 12 2013
So, it seems someone at Radio 4 spotted this thing, and one thing led to another and I ended up being interviewed on PM. Yes, me on national radio! On a proper news programme! Blinking heck. Like a ...
Radio-4-Matic - part 3 - software
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Friday January 11 2013
I promised 'Friday' for this third, code-containing article, and according to my radio it's still Friday (Today in Parliament's playing) - so here we are. Before I even had a chance to fully docume ...
Radio-4-Matic - part 2 - hardware
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Wednesday January 9 2013
Continuing this series on the hacked-together, time-travelling Radio-4-Matic, time for some hardware. This was going to have been a guide to dismembering an old, non-functional radio and rebuilding it ...
Radio-4-Matic - part 1 - introduction
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Monday January 7 2013
So, there have been vague hintings at a Raspberry Pi project I've been building. It's been functional for a while in its time-travelling lunacy - but first, what the hell is it? Something one encou ...
Archive for November 2012
Mystery Project - part 2
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Friday November 23 2012
I'm good at having weird things arrive through the post. The latest acquisition? Observation: box is labelled 'potatoes'. Plenty of bubble-wrap! Not seen: the Royal Warrant of Appointment. Plenty o ...
Archive for October 2012
Mystery Project - part 1
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Monday October 29 2012
Clue: it's all terribly British. Second, newly self-contained prototype for my Raspberry Pi project is up and running! Now I just need to get the rest of the parts. Oddly, the main section can't be fo ...
Archive for June 2012
Timelapse-o-Tron™ 9000, part 1
posted in Electronics by Cargo Cult on Wednesday June 13 2012
Computers are way too fancy these days, with their gigabytes of memory, gigahertz of multiple processing cores, hyper-parallel GPUs and terabytes of storage. Sometimes we nerds yearn for a simpler age ...