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Category Archives: computers
Surias – writing a program can be fun!
This is an unpublished article I wrote in around 1981 about a game my brother and I wrote for the Commodore PET. I am yet to find a program listing or cassette for the game, which I would love to … Continue reading
Noughts and crosses
I just inherited a load of books on programming the 6502 processor in assembly language (and a Kim-1 computer, more on that later!). Among them was an intriguing 1980 book by Rodnay Zaks called 6502 Games. Zaks wrote what, for … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi video art installation
My daughter makes video art and needed a simple solution for showing one of her pieces continually in a loop. I used an old Raspberry Pi model B for this. I just realised that the only place I had documented … Continue reading
Send the time from a watch to a BBC micro:bit
Previously I got a BBC micro:bit sending temperature data to my BangleJS watch by Bluetooth. I did this using a very simple, but deprecated, Eddystone beacon radio protocol. I thought it would be interesting to send data the other way, … Continue reading
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