Raspberry Pi, Mbed, Arduino and Fignition

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5 days ago
by Andy in

Here is a photo of the Raspberry Pi, Mbed, Arduino and Fignition side by side. Gives you a idea of the size of each board. Click the photo to see a full sized version.

Raspberry Pi, Mbed, Arduino and Fignition

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New Addition – Acorn A7000

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6 days ago
by Andy in

Acorn A7000 logo Picked up one of these yesterday – A Acorn A7000. Specs are…

  • CPU: ARM7500 clocked at 32 MHz. With hardware floating point unit, clocked at 48 MHz.
  • Memory type: 4 MiB FPM motherboard mounted and, 1 SIMM slot, supporting a maximum memory size of 132 MiB
  • Video subsystem: VIDC20 controller integrated into ARM7500 core, display memory is shared with main memory.
  • Expansion: One Eurocard-sized Podule support in common with Archimedes-series machines. One internal network card socket.
  • Case: One 3.5 inch bay, with floppy drive, one 5.25 inch bay for a CD-ROM. Note, only one of a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM or an Eurocard Podule could be fitted.
  • Ports: RS-232 Serial, Parallel, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, headphone audio out, DE15 VGA, network (optional).
  • Dimensions, HxWxD: 102 x 357 x 283 mm
  • Operating System: RISC OS 3.60 A7000

MJ Hibbett playing Hey Hey 16k acoustic! (Photo)

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1 week ago
by Andy in

It was great hearing MJ Hibbett playing Hey Hey 16k acoustically at Horizons this weekend.

MJ Hibbett playing Hey Hey 16k accoustic

And here is the Flash animation in question. Hey Hey 16k

 

Raspberry Pi cake at the Horizons event at the BFI

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1 week ago
by Andy in

I took my Raspberry Pi to the Sinclair Spectrum at 30 ‘Horizons’ event this weekend. There was a birthday cake with the Raspberry Pi logo on.

Here is my Pi next to the ‘Pie’

Raspberry Pi cake Raspberry Pi

Shift Run Stop – Episode 62: Dr Eben Upton and the Raspberry Pi

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2 weeks ago
by Andy in

The new Shift Run Stop episode is now available. See if you can hear me get a mention :)

We were slumbering, as usual, in our misty Shift Run Stop cryo-pods, when through the liquid nitrogen we heard it: the unmistakable call of a Raspberry Pi in the wild. So here we are again, temporarily reanimated for a very special and rare chat with credit-card sized computer creator, Eben Upton. As Eben reflects on a trajectory that began with writing mouse drivers for BBC Micros and ended with being technical director at Broadcom, we try very hard not to drop his baby on the floor.

Download the Podcast from here : Episode 62: Dr Eben Upton and the Raspberry Pi (I suggest you subscribe too!)

The Podcast is also available through iTunes.

ZX Spectrum’s chief designers reunited 30 years on

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3 weeks ago
by Andy in

The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX81 – at the time the world’s best selling consumer computer – it introduced colour “high resolution” graphics and sound.

It also offered an extended version of Sinclair Basic, a computer language with which hundreds of thousands of users were already familiar.

The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than anything else on the market, but what was more impressive was its price: £125 for the basic model with 16 kilobytes of RAM, or £175 for the 48k model.

That allowed adverts at the time to boast: “Less than half the price of its nearest competitor- and more powerful”.

You can read the rest of this article at the BBC - ZX Spectrum’s chief designers reunited 30 years on

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