This is going to be a rather long story about me and my very first computer... or rather not "mine" as in "owning" but rather "my first" as in "the one that started me off on computers". Back when I was a child, around 1984, I got to visit my uncle and he allowed his son and myself to use his computer whenever he was not around. My uncle was ( Read more... )

And here we go. The new magic eye tube arrived Monday. Tried to fit it in... discovered that the "will fit 100% compatible tube" was a larger diameter than the original one. Not enough time on Monday to fix that. I had to get out the Dremel tool to grind out the plastic tube for the magic eye so it would fit thorugh. But over all, it works now:


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And: I call it finished ( Read more... )

...and an update ( Read more... )

Finally, some visible, or rather audible, progress! As I mentioned on my Twitter several times before, I am in the process of restoring an old vintage radio reciever. It's from 1953 by the quality control stamps inside the case ( Read more... )

I have been looking for a project to put into the "open source" community for the longest time now. Problem: Too "good" projects, I might want to sell eventually and open source is not going to improve the chances on that. Bad projects (i.e. toy projects like my TLS library) are not really showcase stuff ( Read more... )

And another goodie for 2016 - this time, it started with an innocent "Geez, let's have a bit of fun with the Arduino for a change ( Read more... )

Yep - Something of a customer review, combined with a rather "funny" story again ( Read more... )

...that turned out to be a tad bit impractical? Well I had one yesterday. I was thinking about getting a new TV again and my train of thought arrived at the "Why isn't there a REAL LED TV?" - you see, the LED TVs that are sold have a LED backlight but just are regular LCD TVs otherwise. Still much better image quality but it's not like the pixels ( Read more... )