Hello! Welcome!
I'm Colin and I'm experimenting with writing. This is a place to document some of my projects. Hopefully this information is useful or interesting to someone, at least!
2025
- The secret names within Bob the dishwasher - 24th November
- Replacing a 48 year old Commodore PET with a Raspberry Pi Pico - 18th November
- Homespun radio: Making my own cosy internet radio station - part1: Fixing my dad's 53 year old Lenco GL75 turntable - 18th October
- Getting a Psion 5mx online - 13th October
- Repairing a Psion 5mx handheld computer - 13th October
- We made apple juice - 2nd October
- How to web enable a Silver-Reed/Knitmaster SK580 knitting machine using a Raspberry Pi Pico
- Messy is fun: Hackerspaces and The Indieweb (The grunge, rather than the cloud)
- From 2021: Our solarpunk ebike conversion experiments
- Explosions, overturning cars, and tea - operating the Scottish electrical grid in the 1980s
- Blogging like it's 1987: A post from my old text terminal
- A test of the new blog
2024
- Our new woolly robot overlords - Robot knitting with a Raspberry Pi enabled knitting machine
- The save icon made real: Digital archeology of 1980s computer disks
- Recreating a favourite childhood jumper with OpenCV and Python
- Experiments in mesh networking with Rust and STM32WL LoRa chips
Behind the scenes:
This site is a work in progress. The fonts and the margins are all wrong.
We heard a lovely clicking sound as we stood outside the St James Quarter shopping centre in Edinburgh. I looked up and saw around 100 pied wagtail birds chirruping away in the trees. Birds must find it handy having a John Lewis and Five Guys next door.
Rosie the dog
The picture at the top is of Rosie: the much loved and missed labrador: 2004-2018.