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05 Nov 2022 - 3 min read

Back to Backplanes

Quite a while ago I decided to give up on the tedious wire wrap technique for building my cards. Although it was certainly more authentic and in-keeping with my …

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14 May 2022 - 9 min read

Assembling an assembler - overview

To make my relay computer do something interesting (or anything at all) it needs a list of instructions held in memory. Each instruction consists of an 8-bit value called an …

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02 May 2022 - 4 min read

Intermission

So, is fair to say that things have been a bit quiet around here of late … and if you’ve been following my YouTube channel I do hope you haven’t been holding your breath for …

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01 Feb 2020 - 2 min read

2020 Update

As the clock struck midnight at the very end of 2019 I decided, over a glass of something sparkling, that I’d set myself a challenge to put out a series of six YouTube …