Fixed my Computer

This was the state of my front IO connector PCB after I tripped over the USB cable, yeah not good. I figured I could make a replacement board, but before going that far I thought I’d try to repair the existing one...

I Did Another Numpad

I was fiddling with one of the old robot keypads and, same old story, thought I might like to upgrade the hardware so it could be used as a USB keypad. But as I tried different ideas, it became apparent that the existing cases aren’t suited to retrofitting a Pico into them, because of the spacing of screws and whatnot...

Keyboard Development

I got to and did a bit more work on the keypad..

Keypad Redux

I was rooting around in my box of goodies the other day when I came across this old keypad and thought why not get it working?...

New Spot X

I’ve had the hardware bashing about in the shed for more than a decade, since I pulled apart most of my Spot 9 robots. On a whim I decided to build a new robot and put those parts to use...

Well That Didn’t Work

I had one blank PCB left from years ago and maybe just enough etchant to do the job, but things didn’t go to plan...

PIC Dev on Linux

After leaving Windows, I thought I’d need to keep a copy around as a VM for edge cases, like programming PICs. In fact I was resigned to not being able to continue PIC development...

Rebooting Spot X

Over the last few weeks I’ve been messing about with options for getting Spot X running again. My focus has been trying to use a Raspberry Pi Pico as the controller but this has been a tedious process...

Programming the Light Box

I knew what I wanted the light box software to do.

Finished the Light Box

Well I finished the light box I was working on...