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Prebuilt binaries for the frank-micro fruit-jam port, and also news on the HSTX video port

How I ported a BBC Micro emulator to the Adafruit Fruit Jam Raspberry Pi Pico entirely using Claude Code

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I listened to a security podcast, and ended up building a simple network intrustion detector with Claude Code

Our old kitchen was not great.

I've been meaning to start this blog again now I have more time; I moved house and was focused on fixing the new place.

In our old flat, we had control over our heating from our phones: I’d reverse engineered the RF control protocol used by our Salus thermostat.

We had a smart meter installed last year.

I bought a "luxury selection of exotic wood blanks" from ebay to try turning some bowls.

A friend, Sandy, suggested trying laser cutting wood veneer (he has plans for a complex design).

I was watching some of Uri Tuchman’s excellent videos, and he mentioned making his own tools; sounded fun, and I now have a garden I can safely try that sort of project in.

I recently received an Elegoo Saturn 2 resin 3d printer, so I thought I’d document my initial testing: These printers print using a 2d array of UV leds which cure a liquid resin held in a tank where U…

One problem with the lathe is I now have a whole set of chisels lying around the place, which is kinda annoying.

I've always wanted one of these.

Nicola bought me a present for my birthday: a hammer making course at Athelstaneforge!

Time for some slightly boring, but useful, 3d printing.

I used a few offcuts to add some new woodworking tools: I bolted a length of the construction timber to my bench with some "star nuts" and spare M10 carriage bolts.

I've been watching a lot of restoration on Youtube recently: AT Restoration, Hand Tool Rescue to name a couple.

If I'm going to do woodwork, it made sense to install a woodworking vice.

I had some spare C24 construction timber left over, so I decided to make a Moxon "dual screw" vice.

Now that I had built a workbench, it was time for some shelves!

Been quiet on here for a while: I've been moving house!

I've been having a busy time in general recently, but I've finally got back to making things.

I somehow stumbled onto this website; they sell DIY hologram kits!

I got one of these nifty wee Pinecil USB-C soldering irons for Christmas They're really quite cool: temperature controlled by an embedded RISC V processor, USB-C powered (using modern high power suppl…

I quite fancied one of these AxiDraw drawing machines, but at the price they go for, I couldn't really justify it.

For my next project I wanted something more complicated.

The circular cutout of my previous project gave me an idea: what if I drew a planet next?

Since I last posted, I've been busy going on holidays in Scotland, zooming about on my new bike, and generally going out and doing stuff.

Kiln Beeper I installed a mini beeper in my kiln and adjusted the software to beep letters in Morse code depending on the stage of the program.

This is the process I'm now using: its had 100% success so far.

PMC clay, or Precious Metal Clay clay(sic!)

I have a small "Prometheus Pro-1 PRG" Jewellery kiln for experimentation and artwork.

A friend asked me to 3d print this 3D scan of Emperor Trajan.

I acquired one of these in a deal Google had running.

Next up in the riveting Thermocouple series is how to identify an unknown thermocouple as a Type K.

I've been playing around with Type K thermocouples for a project.

It's not been looking well for a while, poor thing.....

I've been enjoying Electroboom's Youtube channel, and was really interested in the various Tesla coil videos.

As soon as I decided to add the 5x5 Blinkenlights matrix to the horn, it obviously needed to be turned into a music visualiser.

I inherited an old "Revo" speaker horn from my dad.

I've been struggling with a pair of worn out snips for all my snipping/wire stripping needs for years.

I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects.

I've been watching a lot of the Technology Connections Youtube channel recently.

"Frit" is glass which has been broken up into pieces of varying size.

I've been trying combining fused glass with various powdered metals and metal compounds to see what effect it has on the glass colour.

The first thing I tried with my new kiln was some glass fusing.

I've wanted one of these for ages, so I decided to buy one a couple of weeks ago.

I tried the Cyanotype process again.