Category Archives: hardware hacking

Geting My Fingers Burned: Camera Axe Construction

Posted on Tuesday, 1st Nov 2011 by Caz M

I wondered whether to post this in my photographic blog, but decided this bit of the game was really more for the geeks amongst my readership, and would therefore fit better in this blog. For future results, I will post in … Continue reading →

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Over The Air ’11

Posted on Monday, 3rd Oct 2011 by Caz M

Friday and Saturday saw the 2011 incarnation of Over The Air take place at just about the geekiest venue possible – Bletchley Park, home of the National Codes Centre and National Museum of Computing. It’s the first time I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Anyone For ContraptionCamp?

Posted on Wednesday, 27th Jul 2011 by Caz M

I’ve long been a fan of Wallace & Gromit‘s mad contraptions – the sort of machine that makes life infinitely more complicate than it really should be, just to get a simple job done. Well I hadn’t realised until recently … Continue reading →

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Ernie The Electronic Organist – Part 3 (Generating The Data)

Posted on Sunday, 22nd Nov 2009 by Caz

Data Format Following on from the previous post, we now move on to Data Formats and Data Generation. The system can play music in up to 8-part harmony, equivalent to 8 separate parts or voices in a choir, and keeps … Continue reading →

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Ernie The Electronic Organist – Part 1 (Intro)

Posted on Friday, 20th Nov 2009 by Caz

It’s been ages since I did a semi-tech talk at a BarCamp, since I usually talk about photography. But recently I’d been picking my Dad’s brains on his hardware hack which makes an old BBC Model B Micro play a … Continue reading →

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