2025

I'm Still Alive

Apr 6

2016

The time is UP!

Jun 16

2016

BURP part 1

Jun 1

2015

Day Zero

Nov 28

2015

Freescale Kinetis KwikStik (part 2)

Jul 13

2015

Freescale Kinetis KwikStik (part 1)

Jul 10

2015

ARM Cortex-M board from scratch part 3: Kinetis KE04

Jul 7

2015

ARM Cortex-M board from scratch part 2: LPC810

Jul 3

2015

ARM Cortex-M board from scratch part 1: Too Many Options

Jul 1

2015

A handy (and cheap) gadget for holding small PCBs

Jun 26

2015

Arduino development in a web browser

Mar 13

2014

Pi Wars - The TractorBot Story

Dec 12

2014

Raspberry Pi B+ and Altoids

Jul 15

2014

A busy evening with the Ipswich Makerspace

Jul 12

2014

Arduino Mini Pro and ultrasonic distance sensor

Jul 10

2014

Building a "xino" Arduino clone kit

Jul 4

2014

Kickstarter and LPLC PIC18 development board

Jul 3

2014

MoPi has arrived

Jul 2

2014

Problem with the new Raspberry Pi Compute board

Jul 1

2014

First demo of my display screen project coming up

Jun 30

2014

Another university visit - Loughborough

Jun 28

2014

A new meeting place for the Ipswich Makerspace

Jun 27

2014

Dangerous Prototypes bench power supply

Jun 26

2014

Compute Module has arrived

Jun 25

2014

Arduino serial communication finally working

Jun 24

2014

Using a timer interrupt with KDS and K64F

Jun 23

2014

An inspiring day at Reading University

Jun 22

2014

More serial port foolishness

Jun 21

2014

A first project with FRDM-K64F and Kinetis Design Studio

Jun 20

2014

Freescale Tech Day in Milton Keynes

Jun 19

2014

What should I do with a free Velleman MK158 kit?

Jun 17

2014

Communicating with an Arduino on a Pi

Jun 16

2014

Build an 'Arduino' on a Raspberry Pi

Jun 15

2014

Upgrading Bus Pirate firmware

Jun 14

2014

Ipswich Makerspace meeting report

Jun 13

2014

Simpler than a Shrimp - Arduino with no crystal

Jun 12

2014

Installing and using node.js on Raspberry Pi

Jun 11

2014

Back to Pi and back to blogging

Jun 10

2014

MoPi: mobile and flexible powers supply for Raspberry Pi

Mar 4

2014

Boeeerb MotorPiTX Update

Jan 30

2014

Building my own Arduino: shrimp and ArduinoISP

Jan 21

2014

Boeeerb MotorPiTX

Jan 20

2014

Arduino Learning Timer

Jan 16

2014

RyanTeck RPi MCB motor control board

Jan 15

2013

Using Raspberry Pi and Chef to set up remote servers (Part 1)

Nov 19

2013

Detective work on PiFace Control and Display

Nov 9

2013

Programming Raspberry Pi add-ons (a rant and a plea)

Nov 8

2013

Pi Face Control and Display Case

Nov 7

2013

PiFace Control and Display

Nov 5

2013

"Cerberus" a single USB cable for Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Freedom boards

Oct 8

2013

Building a "prototino" Arduino clone

Oct 7

2013

Back from summer break

Sep 29

2013

Cambridge Raspberry Jam

Jul 20

2013

Backups using bt sync and Raspberry Pi (Part 1 - software)

Jul 12

2013

A solution to multiple Raspberry Pi ssh key woes

Jul 10

2013

Reading an analogue value in C on a Freescale Freedom KL25Z

Jun 25

2013

Using the bcm2835 C library for SPI

Jun 24

2013

Reading analogue data on a Raspberry Pi using MCP3002

Jun 23

2013

Another try at reading a MCP3002 ADC with Bus Pirate

Jun 22

2013

Driving a LED array from a BeagleBone Black

Jun 21

2013

Repairing a faulty "flowing water light" board

Jun 20

2013

Using bit-angle PWM to drive GPIO pins

Jun 19

2013

Efficient software PWM with bit-angle modulation

Jun 18

2013

Driving a 7219 LED matrix from a Raspberry Pi

Jun 17

2013

Testing a MAX7219 LED array with Bus Pirate

Jun 16

2013

Building a MAX7219 LED array

Jun 15

2013

Building and testing a Raspi Robot board

Jun 14

2013

Altoids

Jun 13

2013

Building and testing a "flowing water light"

Jun 12

2013

Think you know FORTH? then why not enter a competition?

Jun 11

2013

A pair of new goodies

May 17

2013

First steps with Beagleboard Black

May 7

2013

Code Warrior, Eclipse, and Freedom boards

Apr 20

2013

txtzyme on Raspberry Pi

Apr 18

2013

Starting with Arch Linux

Apr 16

2013

Delimiter-free languages - bus pirate and txtzyme

Apr 15

2013

Is it possible to have too many microcontrollers?

Apr 14

2013

Finally sorting those SD cards

Apr 13

2013

My new favourite Raspberry Pi accessory

Apr 12

2013

At last, direct ethernet connection

Apr 11

2013

Back from an Easter break

Apr 10

2013

Porting (FFT and traffic lights)

Mar 28

2013

First trial of fourier transform on a KL25z

Mar 27

2013

Ipswich game developers and hackspace

Mar 26

2013

Using Raspberry Pi with a Freescale KL25z

Mar 25

2013

Raspberry Pi as a node in a loose network of devices

Mar 24

2013

Pirates and SPIs

Mar 23

2013

Not just Raspberry Pi - playing with an Arduino

Mar 22

2013

The Ipswich technology "scene"

Mar 21

2013

HotPi part two, software frustration

Mar 20

2013

HotPi multi-purpose board

Mar 19

2013

Buying direct from China

Mar 18

2013

Analogue electronics for a bat detector

Mar 17

2013

CORNELIUS code changes again

Mar 16

2013

Back to soldering

Mar 15

2013

Controlling a Slice of Pi/O with Python

Mar 14

2013

Is there a Raspberry Pi with 4GB in the works?

Mar 13

2013

@RSElectronics #bluePi contest ideas

Mar 12

2013

MUDs, federation and multiple Raspberry Pi boards

Mar 11

2013

Progress I made at the Norwich Raspberry Jam

Mar 10

2013

Raspberry Pi in Norwich

Mar 9

2013

Simplifying the CORNELIUS memory map

Mar 8

2013

A few new goodies

Mar 7

2013

Another presentation to IPRUG

Mar 5

2013

Another big step for ELIUS

Mar 4

2013

Analogue input

Mar 3

2013

I feel like I'm becoming a giant!

Mar 2

2013

Rediscovering the delights of C

Feb 28

2013

Just enough language to define new words

Feb 27

2013

Programming while tired

Feb 26

2013

ELIUS Memory Primitives

Feb 25

2013

Going Batty

Feb 24

2013

Testing memory-mapped IO

Feb 23

2013

Developing memory-mapped IO

Feb 22

2013

Finally got my bluetooth keyboard working

Feb 21

2013

Progress on ELIUS

Feb 20

2013

Raspberry Pi and RFID

Feb 19

2013

Hardware abstraction layers

Feb 18

2013

More FORTH-like inspirations

Feb 17

2013

More adventures with Minecraft

Feb 16

2013

Installing minecraft on the Raspberry Pi

Feb 15

2013

Using huge memory with tiny languages

Feb 12

2013

Has anyone got a bluetooth keyboard working with Raspbian "wheezy"?

Feb 11

2013

My post about board revisions seems to have been quite popular

Feb 10

2013

Automatic Raspberry Pi board revision detection: model A, B1 and B2

Feb 6

2013

Slides from my IPRUG talk

Feb 5

2013

No success (yet?) with USB

Feb 4

2013

Memory map thoughts for a bare-metal system

Feb 3

2013

Raspberry Pi USB WiFi working at last

Feb 2

2013

Soldering a slice of pi/o

Feb 1

2013

Pi Face on Linux

Jan 31

2013

Literal strings in ELIUS

Jan 30

2013

Why is it so hard to build Raspberry Pi Linux drivers?

Jan 29

2013

String handling in FORTH and ELIUS

Jan 28

2013

Controlling Raspberry Pi GPIO from Ruby

Jan 27

2013

Frustrating day - need to get more organised

Jan 26

2013

Basics of a FORTH style systen

Jan 25

2013

Gertboards and microcontrollers

Jan 24

2013

Fitting a Real Time Clock to Raspberry Pi

Jan 23

2013

Know any stackable, single Raspberry Pi GPIO connectors?

Jan 22

2013

Hardware review: LEDBorg for Raspberry Pi

Jan 21

2013

Pulse Width Modulation for dimming LEDs

Jan 20

2013

Housekeeping

Jan 19

2013

Unit testing bare-metal Raspberry Pi code

Jan 18

2013

Programming a Problem-Oriented Language

Jan 17

2013

Morse code on a big, bright, LEDBorg

Jan 16

2013

Building Raspberry Pi code for unit tests

Jan 15

2013

More language thoughts

Jan 14

2013

How to read Raspberry Pi board revision and memory size

Jan 13

2013

New Toys!

Jan 12

2013

Setting a default git remote

Jan 11

2013

Data representation - squashing Morse code

Jan 10

2013

Communication, Doors and Crates

Jan 9

2013

Ruby and Sinatra on the Raspberry Pi

Jan 8

2013

Oh Brother UART thou?

Jan 7

2013

What is a "high level language"?

Jan 6

2013

I just noticed a new crop of Raspberries

Jan 5

2013

I now have a screen, but can I use it?

Jan 4

2013

Operating System metaphors: Rooms and Doors

Jan 3

2013

Raspberry Pi with Ham

Jan 2

2013

What is an "operating system"?

Jan 1

2012

Serial port shenanigans

Dec 31

2012

TDD and operating system development

Dec 30

2012

Baking Pi, part 1

Dec 26

2012

Interlude: a bit of history

Dec 25

2012

A real C project

Dec 24

2012

Linux, ssh, git and C

Dec 23

2012

Getting started, at last.

Dec 22