The keyword geek

I used to fettle dictionary web sites. Now I chase dreams.

Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Fixing a vintage Singer sewing machine motor controller

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    With my work writing for Hackaday , this blog has been rather neglected of late. However there are still a few things to write about on ...
Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Musings on online selling of electronic kits

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    Earlier this year I started Language Spy while fresh from years in a permie job, to bring the fruits of computational linguistics to the...
Monday, 10 August 2015

Anatomy of a failed Kickstarter campaign

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tl;dr:  I put a simple electronic kit for the Raspberry Pi on Kickstarter, it didn't succeed. P&P made it look expensive, and I set ...
Saturday, 18 July 2015

A practical antenna testing range

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    If you have an interest in antennas it can be very illuminating to take real-world antenna measurements. This post describes a simple ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Measuring SWR with an extreme QRP transmitter

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As I've used the prototype RF breakout boards for the Raspberry Pi , I've found one or two unexpected challenges posed by such a low...
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Friday, 26 June 2015

Raspberry Pi RF breakout kit on Kickstarter

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So, I've done it. Put the Raspberry Pi RF board on Kickstarter. The thing I said I didn't think would work out as it would put me ...
Tuesday, 9 June 2015

A Raspberry Pi gives me a lifetime DX record

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    The other day I dug out and dusted off my amateur radio logbook. The last entry  was in 1993, a 70cms FSTV test with 2m talkback with ...
Monday, 25 May 2015

A transceiver for not a lot

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    I've just built a transceiver for the 4M amateur band. QRP(low power) and AM, it's not going to be something I'll work DX ...
Wednesday, 22 April 2015

An inexpensive video RF modulator

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    This is a description I wrote a few years ago of my RF modulator for displaying video on older TVs that don't have a composite vid...
Thursday, 16 April 2015

The sad state of the Raspberry Pi software ecosystem

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    When looking at possible channels for a future Language Spy product last week, I took a look at the Raspberry Pi Store .  I've been...
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