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Amiga 1000 Restoration: Recap, Cleaning and Testing

Following on from my first restoration post the next step is recapping the PSU and cleaning the case. As with…

3 years ago

Amiga 1000 Restoration: Floppy Drive and WCS Failure?

As part of restoring my Amiga 1000 into the beautiful machine it once was, I wanted to be able to…

3 years ago

An Amiga 1000

Over the last couple of years I've slowly been building up a collection of every 16bit Amiga model. The most…

3 years ago

Soldering Workbench Tour Update

A few months ago I gave a tour of my soldering workbench for anyone who might find it useful. All…

3 years ago

PiStorm in the MiniMig

The MiniMig is a board which is a hardware reimplmentation of the Amiga custom chips in FPGA which connects to…

3 years ago

Amiga RAMesses

I recently developed a popular board called RAMesses, which upgrades an Amiga 500 / 2000 / Commodore CDTV to 2MB…

3 years ago

Review: Framework Laptop

For many years I have been known as the "ThinkPad guy". I've always used IBM / Lenovo ThinkPad laptops where…

3 years ago

An Experiment in Drying Washed PCBs

When assembling PCBs they get quite dirty, a majority of this dirt is flux, it can be sticky and can…

3 years ago

Coding an MSP430 From the Linux Command Line

The MSP430 is a 16bit microcontroller made by Texas Instruments. As with many other embedded platforms I've been doing some…

3 years ago

Soldering Workbench Tour

Over the past couple of years I have been upgrading the soldering equipment that I used to mostly repair Amigas…

3 years ago