Posted in Floppy disc R/W project on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
It seems this project has consisted of one cockup after another… – First off, I managed to swap the A and B buses on the level translator chips. The “A” bus goes to the disc drive, the “B” bus goes to the FPGA board. Get it the wrong way round, and the FPGA gets zapped [...]
Posted in Computers, Linux on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
A couple of years ago, I picked up a Wacom A6 ArtPad at a computer fair for very little cash (I think it was about £5 or £10) sans power supply, and it’s been sitting gathering dust since I upgraded my PC and lost the serial port. Sadly it doesn’t work on 64-bit Windows XP [...]
Posted in Photography on Sep 25th, 2009 4 Comments »
I’ve been spending money again. This time I’ve got (another) new camera. Or, as the rest of the family call it, a “money sink”. Bit odd really, they don’t really look that much like sinks… Oh well, on with the show! So.. first impressions. I’m a 40D user, so I’m used to heavy cameras, but [...]
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