Category Archives: Retro

Don’t look Behind The Curtains!

Posted on 30 January 2026 by admin

My recent goals to work with and learn some newer, more popular, micro-controllers, and to try some different programming languages, has made me also take another look at the ways things have progressed since I started my career. My programming … Continue reading →

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Small Blinkenlight Update

Posted on 20 January 2026 by admin

I loaded the MM Edit program onto my new Linux/Kubuntu desktop and wanted to test it out with a Raspberry Pi Pico development board to ensure everything was working. As my Pico board was all the way over in my … Continue reading →

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Re-Purposing an old Pioneer Amplifier

Posted on 7 January 2026 by admin

A mate gave me a broken Pioneer VSX-520 surround sound amplifier to fix about 5 years ago, and despite the extremely good service manual that came with it I could not figure out the problem. I went through all the … Continue reading →

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Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984!

Posted on 11 December 2025 by admin

After my recent trip to the UK, my friend Tony, who I worked with as a electronics technician in Q4 division at GCHQ from 1984 to 1989, sent me an email. Apparently in the late nineties, a few years after … Continue reading →

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