Many years ago, I built a bench amplifier from a design published in the popular magazine Electronics Today International. It was in the February 1977 issue, and I built it fairly soon after the mag came out, so that gives you some idea how old the amplifier is now! I used it quite a bit when working on audio circuits, just so that I could listen ( Read more... )

I've been trying to tidy up the house a bit recently, and have had limited success. One of the things I've dug out from under the piles of miscellaneous crap is the video camera stand. It's an Elmo EV550 AF "video presenter", which means that it has a video camera (PAL) that can be used in much the same way as an overhead projector. It has lights ( Read more... )

Good news: I have started, nay, finished the first and most important of the essays for the Uni. I have obtained fine scientific papers in readiness for the next essay. My Sennheiser HD400 headphones are back in full operation with functioning foam earpads (and I'm in 70s heaven). I have received a copy of "Assembler Routines for the 6502". I ( Read more... )

The big B&Q at Cribbs Causeway haven't got any, either. So for the time being, the fence remains tilted over at a funny angle. But the rest of the big shopping trip (thanks to aminorjourney) went very well. I have acquired a year's supply of bog rolls and enough rice to make curry to last until Christmas. Well, 10kg anyway. Thing is, I now have to find a ( Read more... )

Today started off with total indecision about what to do. By about lunchtime, I realised that the only way I could get the green bin full of garden rubbish (and I have a lot of it to shift) would be to dismantle the fence panel that's been blocking the side access for months. It's a job that I've failed to do, but it's now done. The ivy that ( Read more... )

I've cleaned all the hard-water scale off the rear kitchen window, having fixed the overflowing cistern that caused all the trouble in the first place. And I can now see the back garden!

Now, any decent tugurium should be surrounded on all sides by a hortus, that is, a garden. In extreme cases, a moat too. In my case, it's more of a weed-patch ( Read more... )