Very cool, I do like these sort of thing. When I was young there were a lot of these things about, and also things like Space Invaders with electroflourescent displays and also the electromechanical games that Tomy used to make. I never did like the LCD games so much though, the ones with the pre-d...

Well I started to reminisce about my childhood over these last six months and the electronic games be them board type games or hand held. I ended up going down a path of hunting some of the ones I had and also some that friends had back in the day. I have quite a few to post as separate blogs here b...

Well I have been away from the forum for a few months but whilst away I have had sometime to buy a few retro things. This pair was an eBay buy where they did not come with PSU, the Epson PX-4+ was shown as running but the TRS-80 Model 100 was sold in the bundle as not working. After receiving them I...

Nice, any more info eg. venue location and times?

Nice, I remember the clone of the OSI called the Compukit UK101 appeared in the Practical Electronics mags to build. Always wanted to do one back in the day when I was a kid.


Location of old Practical Electronic magazine archive

mgi wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:56 pmThanks a lot!!!

Out of interest what is the spec of your TT. i.e. do you have Storm / Thunder etc cards or other setup

@mgi - I'll have a look at my image and test on another TT. Sorry I haven't replied to your PM been a little busy over the holidays.

Giant Panda printer is now rebuilt with the CNC aluminium parts but I have now had a controller board failure. Ordered a new one over the holiday period but need to wait until tomorrow for them to ship. Have gone a bit over kill on the new board with a Duet 3 Mainboard 6HC including a Revo toolhead ...

Yeah, SMD stuff is a huge pain, even if you're able to do it and have good equipment. Looking good, fingers crossed you can muster a bit of enthusiasm for that last board :) Thanks, I may give the final board a go today. Its going to be interesting as I will have to test the module works so will ha...

Finally got some time to do some SMD work on this, the third board. I have forgotten how time consuming and annoying SMD work is even with all the right equipment. It’s almost been a year since I touched it last. IMG_3376.png IMG_3377 (1).png One more board to go but I dont think I can muster the en...