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Amiga RAMesses
I recently developed a popular board called RAMesses, which upgrades an Amiga 500 / 2000 / Commodore CDTV to 2MB of Chip RAM without any soldering / cutting of the motherboard. I figured I would post more about what it is and why I developed it. Read more
Review: Framework Laptop
For many years I have been known as the “ThinkPad guy”. I’ve always used IBM / Lenovo ThinkPad laptops where possible. To the extent that a few years ago I had a lengthy chat with JFK airport security about why I had four ThinkPads in my hand luggage. I’ve been using a high-spec ThinkPad T495 Read more
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 caramelise onto the board. This is especially true when drag soldering through-hole with a knife tip, it can get very messy. There are several ways of cleaning it off, including scrubbing with sprays and some Read more
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 work with it recently. In particular I started with the MSP-EXP430F5529LP development board which is what this blog post will be about. Read more
Emulating PPC32 Linux in x86_64 Linux
I’ve recently needed to do some porting work for a PPC32 CPU running Linux. At the time I didn’t have any PPC hardware (I’ve since acquired a PowerMac G5). Of course when we don’t have hardware, we can normally emulate it. Here is how I set up the emulation so I can remember for next Read more
Soldering Workbench Tour
Over the past couple of years I have been upgrading the soldering equipment that I used to mostly repair Amigas and build new Amiga parts. Today I’m going to go through what I use and why I decided to purchase each one. The hope is that will help people trying to make similar purchasing decisions Read more
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