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2026 7

  1. Why are my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
  2. Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
  3. Back again with The History of PC Audio
  4. Finding the Time Part 2 - Rust Async and the Arm Generic Timer
  5. Finding the Time Part 1 - AArch32
  6. 3.5" disks for the BBC Master
  7. Sun made ATX UltraSPARC boards for OEMs...

2025 8

  1. Running Linux on a RiscPC - why is it so hard?
  2. Installing and using HP-UX 9
  3. Pre-emptive Multi-Tasking on Arm Cortex-M
  4. How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs? Part 2
  5. How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?
  6. The Curious Case of the UNIX workstation layout
  7. An AlphaStation's SROM
  8. Playing with HP PA-RISC

2024 10

  1. My 2024
  2. An Amstrad Christmas
  3. My new POWER Indigo 2
  4. Backwards Compatible
  5. More Arm Microcontroller Compilation Options in Rust
  6. Arm Microcontroller Compilation Options in Rust
  7. RP2350 Launch Blog
  8. The History of PC Audio
  9. Playing ProTracker files
  10. The Rust Society

2023 3

  1. Everything I know about floppy disks
  2. You can now load from disk...
  3. Colour 80-column text, finally!

2022 8

  1. Rev 1.1.0 PCBs pass initial tests
  2. v1.1.0 boards for Beta Members are in production!
  3. BIOS updates
  4. Beta Applications Open
  5. Rev 1.0.0 testing complete!
  6. Audio and PS/2 port testing
  7. Rev 1.0.0 is alive!
  8. Grant Funding and Rev 1.0.0 almost ready...

2021 7

  1. There's video!
  2. Check Mate
  3. It's working
  4. A bad thing happened
  5. It's definitely micro ATX sized!
  6. LQFPs are confusing
  7. Rev 0.5.0 has been ordered

2019 2

  1. Oh so busy!
  2. Making a computer

2018 6

  1. Plans for the railway
  2. Monotron at Rust Belt Rust
  3. Where next for the Monotron
  4. Talking about Monotron at RustFest
  5. I decided to make an 1980's Home Computer in Rust - Part 1
  6. Embedded Rust in 2018

2017 2

  1. Advent of Code
  2. Results analysis

2016 1

  1. Some progress

2015 4

  1. Webserver
  2. Christmas with a Pi Zero
  3. Back to our regular programming
  4. New Bike!

2014 8

  1. We're at PiWars
  2. Pi Wars
  3. Emissions
  4. TFT up and running
  5. A quick word on fonts
  6. DAB radio module
  7. The dashboard is coming along...
  8. Blog 2014 01 15

2013 6

  1. LCD Success!
  2. LCD Frustration
  3. On-board Diagnostics
  4. Stellaris update
  5. Raspberry Jam!
  6. More Stellaris fun

2012 5

  1. TI Stellaris Launchpad
  2. Jaguar / Alpine AJ9500R radio / cassette
  3. Moving in a different direction
  4. Pull down
  5. Blog 2012 07 03

2011 15

  1. Blog 2011 09 24
  2. Moving Signals
  3. Feathers
  4. Signals and Testing
  5. L293 Driver
  6. Bluetooth
  7. Less wires
  8. Blog 2011 08 15
  9. Blog 2011 08 14
  10. Schematic
  11. Darlington Pairs
  12. Easier than mucking around with MOSFETs
  13. Blog 2011 08 02
  14. Stuff has arrived!
  15. Welcome!