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My new Clevo W240EUQ Laptop from PC Specialists
This is the Laptop I have moved to. No longer a Mac user, never more than a PC user and never a Windows fan. I’m now entirely into my custom built Clevo W244EUQ laptop, built to my configuration by PC … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, DIY server, Freedom, General IT issues, Intel, Linux, Mac, Maker, Microsoft, The Future, Windows
Tagged benchmark, Clevo, Intel, Linux, Mac, Mint, OS, PC Specialist, Windows
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My Chosen ‘Case’ for my RaspBerry-Pi
My Case of choice arrived for my Raspberry-PI today and it looks, and works fine. As I fancy myself as a ‘Maker‘ I chose this case from www.skpang.co.uk Now which wire is connected to what pin??? The knee bone is … Continue reading
Posted in DIY server, General IT issues, Maker, Projects
Tagged Arduino, GPIO, Maker, Raspberry-Pi
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Benchmarking the Raspberry-Pi
This is a crude and simple PI test against the Raspberry-Pi and a Dell Pentuim-4 (3.0Ghz) The Raspberry-Pi Starting PI… x= 0.38631 y= 0.89070 low= 939239 j=1200001 Pi = 3.130797 ztot= 801773.75 itot= 1200000 real 0m1.900s user 0m1.720s sys 0m0.000s … Continue reading
Posted in Education, General IT issues, Information, Intel, Linux, Maker
Tagged Arduino, Benchmarking, C, Maker, Pentium, Raspberry-Pi
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Learning Computers and Computing
I have been doing research into the nature of computers and I’ve been participating with with the phenomena know as Coderdojo. As part of my research I’ve been relearning Assembly language on several different architectures, and I’ve been experimenting with … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Maker
Tagged Arduino, CoderDojo, education, ELF, Maker, Membership Card, programming, Raspberry-Pi
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The future of Computing in Ireland
There is hope for the future of computing in Ireland, at CoderDojo Cork I actually found a desk that was more cluttered with the future than my own desk at home.
They both blink
This is my ELF Membership card (in the black box) running a 12 byte program that adds up to 255 then turns off the light, normally this would be about 1 per second, but I’ve been tweeking the speed dial … Continue reading
Posted in General IT issues, Information, Maker, Projects
Tagged 1802, Arduino, Computing, COSMAC, ELF, Maker, Membership Card
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It’s ALIVE, ALIVE (it blinks)
What can I say, it works, See here , and it’s SOOOO productive. I’s amazing that it makes me feel good that I managed to reproduce/assemble a kit of this nature. I grew up with this sort of thing, and … Continue reading
Posted in Education, General IT issues, Maker
Tagged COSMAC 1802, DIY Computers, ELF, Maker, Membership Card
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One day of concerted Soldering
This is my Monday effors of concerted soldering my neck is stiff, and I have a nice blister on my right hand index finger from fumbling the soldering pencil, but I managed. I thought I had a power source conector, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, General IT issues, History, Information, Maker
Tagged COSMAC, COSMAC 1802, DIY Computers, ELF, Maker, Membership Card
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My New Computer
My new computer… Now where did I put that soldering iron….
Posted in DIY server, General IT issues, Information, Maker, Work
Tagged 1802, 8 Bit Computer, Altoids, COSMAC, DIY Computers, Maker, Membership Card
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Geek Lust – in an Altoids tin.
Talk about geek lust, if I had a wish list, this would be on the top of the list.
Testing the Home server
If you are reading this, and are interested is my OpenSolaris server click here.
The price of a Green PC server.
I keep calling this DYI project a server, which it is currently doing, Samba server, MySQL server, Apache server FTP server. But beyond this it’s also a desktop server with all the features of your average desktop PC. 2GB of … Continue reading
Posted in DIY server, Economy, Education, General IT issues, Maker
Tagged DYI, Elara, Maker, OpenSolaris
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