Spent all day today at Tech Adventure, with three Compukit UK101 machines. In fact, in addition to my three machines, there was a fourth, highly modified, Compukit brought in by David Stevenson. That one also operated for most of the day, with such features as a 32-line text display and 32k of dynamic RAM. In fact, the machines all performed ( Read more... )

I really should be getting the UK101s ready for Tech Adventure. But I'm too tired after work and much too demotivated from sitting in a cubicle all day with very little to do. Well, there isn't really much to do but get all the kit downstairs ready for a quick start on Saturday. But I still wish I could get out from under this mountain of

There was so much going on at Dorkbot Bristol this month that we ran out of places to sit and ended up sprawled on whatever floor space remained. I started off the evening by showing the five-button analog controller that I made at DorkSnow in London. It's basically five selectable voltage dividers, connected to an analog input pin on an Arduino ( Read more... )