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02 Apr, 2026 I wrote an iPhone calculator app
28 Mar, 2026 I wrote a book
26 Mar, 2026 My wife found this for me and gave it to me for my birthday. I still know every word.
21 Mar, 2026 Make homebuilt computers great again.
20 Mar, 2026 Project Hail Mary Review
13 Mar, 2026 Every once in a while, people surprise me with the coolest things. A friend is now using a Commodore to read my writing. Awesomesauce!
09 Mar, 2026 On life
27 Feb, 2026 My custom Obsidian plugin
20 Feb, 2026 Friday fun: Time to bring out the Osborne 1 I spent quite a few hours restoring last year.
16 Feb, 2026 Does everyone need an audience?
11 Feb, 2026 Learning as a kid
10 Feb, 2026 This philosophy still holds up
08 Feb, 2026 A body of work
07 Feb, 2026 The circle is complete
06 Feb, 2026 Picked up a gorgeous hardcover version of Enigma: The Battle for Code
05 Feb, 2026 I don't have a RAM shortage. This is plenty for a lifetime
03 Feb, 2026 My advice to 6-18-year-olds who want to learn to program
03 Feb, 2026 It's going to take me a few minutes to get through this book set. Definitely worth it.
20 Jan, 2026 Be more than average
17 Jan, 2026 Journals are private. Period.
16 Jan, 2026 Four business plans
12 Jan, 2026 Working on a fun Enigma codebook generator for the Commodore
08 Jan, 2026 Here's my first crack at a personal year-view calendar using my Apple Calendar data.
05 Jan, 2026 I asked my wife for a Mainframe for my birthday so I can use this tape I picked up from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
26 Dec, 2025 Fun little side project
18 Dec, 2025 Timeline cleanse
18 Dec, 2025 For you
17 Dec, 2025 Visual Sorting
16 Dec, 2025 Christmas is better when there are 5 1/4" floppies around.
13 Dec, 2025 A Python Guide to Advent of Code 2026
12 Dec, 2025 AOC 2025
10 Dec, 2025 In today's episode of stupid races between old computery things
08 Dec, 2025 First principles AI. I'm not joking.
08 Dec, 2025 X just sent me an ad for $100 sweatpants. People are NUTS.
07 Dec, 2025 I love doing puzzles and brain teasers in the Christmas season. Like Advent of Code and books like this.
04 Dec, 2025 New website
03 Dec, 2025 Advent of Code Day 3 - Vintage edition. I used my Commodore 64 to get today's puzzle. 8 hours, not bad.
03 Dec, 2025 Day 3 of Advent of Code 2025
01 Dec, 2025 Continuing to compute 100k digits of Pi as quickly as possible (without using an LLM, just my brain)
01 Dec, 2025 Advent of Code 2025 Day 1 was easy, so I challenged myself and did it in FORTRAN.
30 Nov, 2025 Green phosphor monitors count as Christmas decorations in my office. I'll die on this hill.
30 Nov, 2025 Alright, since this week I was computing Pi in six languages, let's add a seventh.
30 Nov, 2025 This thing needs an OS upgrade.
29 Nov, 2025 AT Time
28 Nov, 2025 Pi as fast as I know how in six languages
27 Nov, 2025 Novella complete
24 Nov, 2025 Doing actual writing in Hugo
22 Nov, 2025 Doing math like it’s 1962.
21 Nov, 2025 This is a GREAT Modbus device for the Raspberry Pi
17 Nov, 2025 Been looking forward to the SwissMicros R47 for some time.
17 Nov, 2025 If you're looking to type like a complete moron all day, switch back and forth between a MacBook Air and a Windows gaming laptop all day. Sheesh.
10 Nov, 2025 Accents
07 Nov, 2025 Timeline cleanse: The soft glow of a PDP-8 in a dark office.
07 Nov, 2025 Working on a side hustle idea
07 Nov, 2025 If writing is thinking
07 Nov, 2025 Prediction: 2026 will be the year of the FreeBSD desktop.
06 Nov, 2025 Actually ahead on my NaNoWriMo goal for this year
05 Nov, 2025 I started playing around with writing an OT asset discovery tool
29 Oct, 2025 National Novel Writing Month Platform
29 Oct, 2025 Self hosting
25 Oct, 2025 Working appliances
22 Oct, 2025 Perfect answers
21 Oct, 2025 Apparently there was an AWS something something this week.
20 Oct, 2025 My "North" for 2026
20 Oct, 2025 The Villiage
20 Oct, 2025 Resume update: sooo many cool things...
07 Oct, 2025 For the first time in many years, I'm trying not to be burned out with my day job.
06 Oct, 2025 This is my favorite Amazon message. Makes me feel good about having spent money on this.
03 Oct, 2025 Claude Code and Obsidian
02 Oct, 2025 Moving my office to a different room of the house and I got distracted
01 Oct, 2025 Wazuh
29 Sep, 2025 Super useful tech to learn about
25 Sep, 2025 There are days I need this stapled to my forehead.
23 Sep, 2025 I love this Starlink mini so much
22 Sep, 2025 Hear me out: Omarchy but with BSD
21 Sep, 2025 Erika Kirk’s speech today might be the best half hour speech I’ve ever heard.
21 Sep, 2025 Moving my office
19 Sep, 2025 I really miss being able to slam a phone down to hang up
18 Sep, 2025 Got this brand new book on Rust
17 Sep, 2025 Blog as my primary posting platform
17 Sep, 2025 This is the best computer hacking tutorial ever made
17 Sep, 2025 Blogs vs social as a posting platform
15 Sep, 2025 Am I doing Omarchy correctly?
12 Sep, 2025 Distracted
05 Sep, 2025 I’ve crossed a threshold. I now bring a magnifying glass for weekend board games. Sigh.
03 Sep, 2025 Super fun find yesterday
03 Sep, 2025 A Universal plug isn’t really the best idea. What happens if I take the sticker off or forget?
01 Sep, 2025 50 years ago this month, issue #1 of BYTE magazine was born. They sure don’t make em like they used to.
15 Aug, 2025 PfSense and OPNSense Firewall Manager
10 Aug, 2025 I miss mix tapes
08 Aug, 2025 Enigma Emulator
05 Aug, 2025 What happened to small sharp tools?
01 Aug, 2025 Time to do some writing with the Schrödinger’s cat of computers.
28 Jul, 2025 Commodore Bookmaker
18 Jul, 2025 Next step?
17 Jul, 2025 I'm sure this is fine. Batteries in a Commodore calculator from 1975. It'll buff out ;-)
15 Jul, 2025 Computer equivalent of touching grass
12 Jul, 2025 Kayaked Tuckasegee with Caleb today
10 Jul, 2025 Tap tap
10 Jul, 2025 Ruby for Commodore 64 (not really)
09 Jul, 2025 Matrix Rain in Ruby
08 Jul, 2025 Two different people suggested I start podcasting again
06 Jul, 2025 I’ve read this book almost every summer since it came out in 1999. I’m guessing this is the 20th time. I still find it as entertaining as the first time.
04 Jul, 2025 Do We Have the Authority to Know Someone Is Saved?
01 Jul, 2025 TI-99/4a recursive maze generator
01 Jul, 2025 10 PRINT on TI-99/4a
30 Jun, 2025 Life moves pretty fast
30 Jun, 2025 Clean up
29 Jun, 2025 You can save a lot of desk space if you put your high speed storage device directly onto your AI vibe coding machine.
28 Jun, 2025 Spent some time with the ZX81/T1000 in June. Just sitting down to decide what to do with July. I'm thinking these two.
27 Jun, 2025 BYTE Magazine Collection
27 Jun, 2025 Empty
26 Jun, 2025 Why is the terminal bell on by default in Windows 11?
25 Jun, 2025 Fountain Pens
25 Jun, 2025 Boat time with Dad
24 Jun, 2025 ZX81 Maze
24 Jun, 2025 I do not need another hobby
23 Jun, 2025 Say a prayer for me
23 Jun, 2025 Have fun making slides
21 Jun, 2025 White water on the Tuckaseegee was fun. Only had time to snap a few pictures during the calm sections.
18 Jun, 2025 Old notebooks
17 Jun, 2025 I much prefer playing chess against a human. But, if I have no choice but to play a computer, it will be a VIC-20.
16 Jun, 2025 Old computer number crunching
14 Jun, 2025 Knocking some rust off. First shot in a while. At least I’m not in the dirt.
14 Jun, 2025 Caleb is in the ensemble cast of the Asheville Community Theater’s production of the Little Mermaid. It’s opening weekend.
12 Jun, 2025 This feels sketch
11 Jun, 2025 Stuff to learn this week
10 Jun, 2025 Make interfaces great again
09 Jun, 2025 Steve, I wish they were sorry about it man
09 Jun, 2025 Monday deep thoughts of a Commodore 64.
07 Jun, 2025 Found a breadbin case and some brown keycaps for my Elite-II. Leave the C64 badge or replace it with an Elite badge?
07 Jun, 2025 “Work” trip this week
04 Jun, 2025 Just checking, double-checking Monty Hall since my brain still finds it odd.
02 Jun, 2025 Still playing around with maze generation. This time with a grid pattern on the Commodore 64.
31 May, 2025 Holy Toledo that was a pain to dig out.
30 May, 2025 I think about this a lot
30 May, 2025 What you can use the internet for
30 May, 2025 I still love maze generation
29 May, 2025 Ultimate64 Elite-II
29 May, 2025 DO. THE. WORK.
28 May, 2025 Random maze fun
28 May, 2025 Early draft of my weekly planner
28 May, 2025 Even lower
28 May, 2025 Still got it
26 May, 2025 Some areas have had backward progress
25 May, 2025 More color work on my VIC-20 drop in VIC chip FPGA replacement. I feel like I'm getting pretty close on the NTSC colors here
23 May, 2025 Vic's Revenge Update
22 May, 2025 Over the top
21 May, 2025 10 PRINT in Verilog
20 May, 2025 Vim was worth it
20 May, 2025 Warning signs
20 May, 2025 Do kids still go to school?
20 May, 2025 Vim upper/lowercase
19 May, 2025 Modbus CRC-16 for "work"
19 May, 2025 Too many interests
19 May, 2025 It's nice when your son out fishes you
16 May, 2025 I mean... I suppose a bunch of 6502 assembly code counts as "words."
16 May, 2025 Sometimes you need to sleep on it
14 May, 2025 There's an untapped market
14 May, 2025 What I used to love about Unix systems
13 May, 2025 10 PRINT Fortran
13 May, 2025 Ultimate 64 Upgrade... not too happy
12 May, 2025 Expanded Mars colony game
12 May, 2025 Pretty zippy
12 May, 2025 A cluster?
10 May, 2025 Since I started going back to the gym and lifting heavy my resting heart rate has plummeted.
09 May, 2025 Boat
09 May, 2025 Mars Colony Game
09 May, 2025 A fantastic dream - OR IS IT?
08 May, 2025 10 PRINT on KIM-1 Seven Segment Display
07 May, 2025 1200 baud and 49K of RAM is more than a growing boy needs.
04 May, 2025 The PAL-II KIM-1 Clone came together nicely
02 May, 2025 Finished the Osborne 1
01 May, 2025 I have no memory of acquiring this KIM Uno but it works. Huh.
01 May, 2025 Anyone else have the Death Star playset?
30 Apr, 2025 This movie freaked me out as a kid
29 Apr, 2025 Face to face
28 Apr, 2025 I have a "production" EPROM eraser. I'll bet you could get 75 chips in this thing at once. But my "production" quantity is usually... 1. Happy Monday ;-)
25 Apr, 2025 I've been sitting on this KIM-1 clone too long. It's supposed to rain, so I'll pick away at it.
23 Apr, 2025 Having some trees cleared at our house today. I've never been so happy to have gotten into computers 40 years ago. I just called my Dad to thank him for buying a Commodore 64 in 1983.
23 Apr, 2025 Osborne restoration day 5 continued: 10 PRINT
22 Apr, 2025 Osborne 1 restoration day 5 (non consecutive)
21 Apr, 2025 RSA on Commodore
20 Apr, 2025 Happy Easter
19 Apr, 2025 Osborne restoration day 4
17 Apr, 2025 Picked up an Osborne sticker. Thoughts on what to do with it?
16 Apr, 2025 Osborne 1 Restoration Day 3
16 Apr, 2025 It's been one of those mornings
15 Apr, 2025 RPN on Mac Calculator...
15 Apr, 2025 10 PRINT on the TI-74
11 Apr, 2025 Friday Picocalc
10 Apr, 2025 Long Books
09 Apr, 2025 Math is crazy
09 Apr, 2025 Haven’t used my Apple IIe in a bit. This game is still pretty great.
09 Apr, 2025 Our charter captain loves his job
04 Apr, 2025 Reflections
03 Apr, 2025 Tell me you're an old-school computer peep without telling me you are. I'll go first.
02 Apr, 2025 Beyond our screens
02 Apr, 2025 Hump Day PicoCalc fun: Some "high energy" bouncing balls. You can add or remove them with A or R
01 Apr, 2025 PicoCalc Primes
31 Mar, 2025 Starting the week by adding a device to my "10PRINT on all the things" list. Happy Monday!
29 Mar, 2025 The Myth of "Nothing to Hide": Why Privacy Matters for Everyone
28 Mar, 2025 Is it net positive? I'm actually asking.
28 Mar, 2025 IF
27 Mar, 2025 I'm tired of the privilege of apathy argument
27 Mar, 2025 Opening day of baseball
26 Mar, 2025 That sweet, sweet sound.
24 Mar, 2025 PicoCalc arrived today.
21 Mar, 2025 You can learn anything in 45 minutes now
21 Mar, 2025 Happy Spring!
20 Mar, 2025 Game of life
19 Mar, 2025 Magic
19 Mar, 2025 Finally, I found a working 16C at a reasonable price.
19 Mar, 2025 Need to give back
18 Mar, 2025 Left handed mouse
17 Mar, 2025 Without that AI switch flipped, it’s just vibes and no substance—might as well call it 'air guitar programming'.
17 Mar, 2025 Quiet heros
14 Mar, 2025 Like .338 Lapua has recoil. Pfft.
14 Mar, 2025 1988 wish list
14 Mar, 2025 Happy Pi Day from one of my VIC-20s!
14 Mar, 2025 Rawdog it
13 Mar, 2025 The 3+ Penultimate "Turbo" arrived yesterday.
12 Mar, 2025 Characters who drink
11 Mar, 2025 Almost perfect mobile setup
11 Mar, 2025 Dreams
08 Mar, 2025 I used to love flying
06 Mar, 2025 Austin
05 Mar, 2025 Angry eyes
03 Mar, 2025 I've written thousands of words about how I feel about "AI," and someone has nailed it with a short sentence. Sigh.
02 Mar, 2025 Bets on how this is going to fare with American Airlines baggage handlers this week?
02 Mar, 2025 It didn’t need the f bomb, but this is something to really think about.
27 Feb, 2025 So I figured out what happened with the Epstein list.
26 Feb, 2025 Ahh, that's better—no AI in sight.
25 Feb, 2025 When you must dive deep into a subject, a book is still the best format
24 Feb, 2025 Introextovert
23 Feb, 2025 Amazon, shame shame
23 Feb, 2025 This is new in the wrapper, but we must open it, right?
22 Feb, 2025 Saturday thoughts...
19 Feb, 2025 They’re sorry Steve Jobs. Or at least we wish they were.
19 Feb, 2025 I feel pretty prepared for that part in Battlestar Galactica where only the non networked (no AI) systems survived. Plus it just looks cool.
17 Feb, 2025 Journal entry this morning. Sheesh I had a lot to get out
15 Feb, 2025 Artificial
13 Feb, 2025 Buying this book has saved me from another multi-thousand-dollar hobby.
10 Feb, 2025 Behold: the best computer book cover of all time
10 Feb, 2025 Theme for the week
10 Feb, 2025 Make face to face great again
10 Feb, 2025 I love this new AI trend
09 Feb, 2025 Set up a Wyze camera on the freeze dryer so we don’t have to keep checking in it.
07 Feb, 2025 Preparing for American Airlines to have my rifle… how much foam is too much foam :)
05 Feb, 2025 I picked up a Boox Go Color 7. The color ePaper looks pretty great IRL.
05 Feb, 2025 Maybe social media will die, finally
05 Feb, 2025 Deepseek-r1 on my laptop w/ GeForce RTX 3060
03 Feb, 2025 The perfect camping setup doesn’t exi… ohhhhh
03 Feb, 2025 We forgot to ask if we should
02 Feb, 2025 Had this thing for 20 years. It’s still my best distraction free writing tool.
30 Jan, 2025 Avoidable air disaster
29 Jan, 2025 My go-to "this meeting should have been an email" is this game
28 Jan, 2025 A random find in my basement
27 Jan, 2025 The complete series is only 29 hours in total, but it is worth every minute.
26 Jan, 2025 Again
25 Jan, 2025 AI chess
23 Jan, 2025 I will not have time to assemble this today, but my PAL-II arrived. Serial number 2. Woot!
22 Jan, 2025 Gyms
21 Jan, 2025 Devices as babysitters. A bad idea since 1981.
21 Jan, 2025 These paper apps are my new favorite thing. And a D6 pencil, brilliant!
17 Jan, 2025 It would be cool if they made it in Commodore beige, but red will do :)
17 Jan, 2025 Surprisingly, this vintage Apple Intelligence is more interesting and useful than 2025 Apple Intelligence.
17 Jan, 2025 My high risk court record
17 Jan, 2025 Friday Go Fun
16 Jan, 2025 Winter office work
16 Jan, 2025 Learning Lua ADHD Moment
15 Jan, 2025 Checking in
15 Jan, 2025 Pirates
13 Jan, 2025 Make wired headphones great again! (Also, happy Monday!)
12 Jan, 2025 A game with calculators... yes please
09 Jan, 2025 10print on the PICO-8
09 Jan, 2025 Day 9 of carnivore January: I have to remind myself to eat.
09 Jan, 2025 This is more like a 10-course meal than a light read, but I will try and get through it in January
09 Jan, 2025 Listening
08 Jan, 2025 The barber shop
06 Jan, 2025 That's a lot of data
06 Jan, 2025 work playlist for the week
06 Jan, 2025 Kinda late to the party, but this is my first time using PICO-8.
03 Jan, 2025 Kinda neato. "The Probability Broach" also has a graphic novel.
02 Jan, 2025 Time to do some CAD work.
01 Jan, 2025 The VIC project
30 Dec, 2024 So so so much potential. But he couldn’t keep his politics out of it. What a shame.
28 Dec, 2024 Been waiting for this to arrive since the summer. Looks fantastic.
27 Dec, 2024 Urg, coal in the stocking. I’ve got to be better next year
26 Dec, 2024 I always wanted a one-handed watch. She found me one with a cool 80s vibe.
26 Dec, 2024 I was too cool for school when my Mom offered me piano lessons as a kid. No time like the present.
26 Dec, 2024 2025 music
26 Dec, 2024 Strangers
25 Dec, 2024 Merry Christmas! I finished Advent of Code for the 6th year in a row ;-)
20 Dec, 2024 Christmas songs
20 Dec, 2024 VICs Revenge
19 Dec, 2024 I forgot I picked this up a few months ago
18 Dec, 2024 I just submitted my #VCCC2024 Entry
17 Dec, 2024 Drone practice seems prudent this week…
17 Dec, 2024 I didn't want a minivan until now...
17 Dec, 2024 AI... sigh
13 Dec, 2024 Christmas Trolley
13 Dec, 2024 Day off shenanigans
13 Dec, 2024 OffGlobe
11 Dec, 2024 I am success!
10 Dec, 2024 Just think, you could be getting into the Holiday spirit with the soft glow of a restored PET 2001 from 1979...
10 Dec, 2024 Arg, I hate seeing a dead SID. At least I have 50-year spares on hand.
09 Dec, 2024 Lazy programming...
08 Dec, 2024 ALL computer (and recipe) books should be spiral-bound
07 Dec, 2024 If officially the Christmas season in my house when Karen Carpenter is singing.
06 Dec, 2024 Happy Friday!
05 Dec, 2024 The Kawarii...
05 Dec, 2024 Well, hello, old friend.
04 Dec, 2024 It's been a while this year since I did any Assembly programming on a C64. I almost forgot just how much I love developing on-hardware.
04 Dec, 2024 Keyboard shopping
03 Dec, 2024 I regret using Hugo
03 Dec, 2024 VCCC 2024
03 Dec, 2024 Curating music
03 Dec, 2024 I am still working on this PET 2001-8N board. Both 6520s are bad. That's unfortunate.
27 Nov, 2024 On today's episode of "Stupid Races Between Old Computery Things," the Radio Shack PC-4 (1983) and the TI-74 (1986) are competing
26 Nov, 2024 I can't say enough good things about this book—easily in the top five favorite books I've read in 2024.
24 Nov, 2024 10PRINT on the TI-74
21 Nov, 2024 One's compliment head scratcher
21 Nov, 2024 It's supposed to snow tonight. Does someone want to let our tomato plants (and marigolds) know? They are both still flowering...
20 Nov, 2024 Fighting what?
19 Nov, 2024 I think most of you know that I adore Advent of Code.Tuesday timeline cleanse: Sure, you've seen "The Last Starfighter," but have you seen it on LaserDisc?
17 Nov, 2024 What might have been
16 Nov, 2024 Peak handheld. I used the one on the right every day for years (they both still work).
16 Nov, 2024 Who or what
12 Nov, 2024 I love the Maze Algorithm from Compute! in 1981. For fun, here it is using pygame on a modern computer. Happy Tuesday!
11 Nov, 2024 Veteran's Day
11 Nov, 2024 An Int Button
11 Nov, 2024 Books are just better
10 Nov, 2024 Just give it a try
09 Nov, 2024 It's always a fun game to take the Commodore Plus/4 out to see if it still boots. Yep, still ticking...
07 Nov, 2024 Flight planning like it's 1976
06 Nov, 2024 TI-58C Fault
04 Nov, 2024 My first direct node-to-node Meshtastic message... I couldn't resist ;-) Happy Monday, and keep it Commodore!
03 Nov, 2024 Trolley reverser
02 Nov, 2024 How important is it to win?
31 Oct, 2024 Meshtastic nodes are multiplying around here
30 Oct, 2024 Book club is more than that
30 Oct, 2024 Today's Timeline Cleanse
30 Oct, 2024 I've struggled to articulate the part of "AI" I'm afraid of
29 Oct, 2024 Today's timeline cleanse:
29 Oct, 2024 Monster Mash
28 Oct, 2024 This is the way
28 Oct, 2024 Elvira
27 Oct, 2024 Just arrived from China. I wonder if any of them work or are real.
26 Oct, 2024 Seems like an appropriate weekend for Mansions of Madness. Has anyone ever won this game ;)
25 Oct, 2024 Friday timeline cleanse
23 Oct, 2024 My Wednesday controversial position
22 Oct, 2024 Every once in a while, I can trick my iPhone into taking video of the screen on this PET in a way that we can see it ;-)
21 Oct, 2024 This is my entire Starlink set up out in the field. Powered by a DeWalt battery and sitting on the cover of my truck bed. Works great.
20 Oct, 2024 This week is gonna be a dive into Meshtastic. This T-Deck has a great BlackBerry vibe.
20 Oct, 2024 Parents not needed
20 Oct, 2024 Apple makes crazy good laptops
19 Oct, 2024 I love Peggy's books so much!
18 Oct, 2024 Well, if it won't be a neat project, then at least it's not well-documented. Happy Friday!
16 Oct, 2024 AI Bias
16 Oct, 2024 Gotta give Starlink some props here
15 Oct, 2024 Leg press
15 Oct, 2024 Content is...
14 Oct, 2024 Well that's not ideal
12 Oct, 2024 Top 10 NES games
11 Oct, 2024 Starlink week one
10 Oct, 2024 With great power comes great responsibility.
10 Oct, 2024 This is what I call a great set of bedtime stories.
09 Oct, 2024 Random radios
08 Oct, 2024 The Starlink Mini hardware is one of the most elegant designs ever created
08 Oct, 2024 Tuesday thought
07 Oct, 2024 Starlink for the win
06 Oct, 2024 Every time I assemble this antenna, I’m surprised that all the pieces are in the case. Good job, self.
26 Sep, 2024 Behold! The undisputed champions of "I need to flush out this idea."
25 Sep, 2024 I've been looking forward to this one for a while.
23 Sep, 2024 It just occurred to me that it's officially fall.
23 Sep, 2024 Reframe your relationship with your phone
22 Sep, 2024 Bridge is finished and got a coat of paint. Really happy with how this turned out.
20 Sep, 2024 Be kind. Rewind.
20 Sep, 2024 Greeted at the door
20 Sep, 2024 Analog E6B
20 Sep, 2024 Number pad
19 Sep, 2024 “Have you seen that Shogun TV series? Seems up your alley.”
18 Sep, 2024 Graduated from boot camp 31 years ago today. It seems like both longer and shorter than that
17 Sep, 2024 Pico2 is working out great.
17 Sep, 2024 Not the answer
17 Sep, 2024 I've been ruminating on a couple of things I used to spend a lot of time talking about
16 Sep, 2024 The new iOS weather app uses strange precipitation colors. I thought it was gonna snow looking at this.
16 Sep, 2024 Monday thought
14 Sep, 2024 We’re doing a Christmas themed trolly over our kitchen cabinets this year.
13 Sep, 2024 Dragon Curves to cleanse your timeline
11 Sep, 2024 Interactive Fiction
11 Sep, 2024 New workout plan
08 Sep, 2024 Egon’s PC-4
07 Sep, 2024 If my calculations are correct, I’ll need four of these per computer.
07 Sep, 2024 A little Saturday timeline cleanse.
04 Sep, 2024 Well, they took long enough that I wish I had ordered 10, but 3 will do for today.
03 Sep, 2024 Short week ahead. Cleaning the timeline from the beginning with Defender on the C64.
02 Sep, 2024 Did an 8 mile section of the AT today with my favorite person. 1200 foot elevation gain so not too difficult.
01 Sep, 2024 This month's book club main topic is a fun one
31 Aug, 2024 Replaced our old workhorse espresso machine this week after the water pump died (RIP)
30 Aug, 2024 Friday morning timeline cleanse.
28 Aug, 2024 So impressed
26 Aug, 2024 I have no idea where the case and cover are, but this is my original from 1982. It still plays pretty well.
25 Aug, 2024 Just picked this one up. Pretty good.
23 Aug, 2024 Mirrors
23 Aug, 2024 Books I'm looking at
23 Aug, 2024 Book club
22 Aug, 2024 Finally
20 Aug, 2024 Finally, a chess engine I might be able to beat. Happy Tuesday!
20 Aug, 2024 Shorthand fail
18 Aug, 2024 There’s always time to go back to first principles.
16 Aug, 2024 PIO Fun
15 Aug, 2024 The zone
14 Aug, 2024 Deep thought wednesday
13 Aug, 2024 Our latest five book club topics make me smile.
13 Aug, 2024 More skills work
13 Aug, 2024 Almost Christmas
12 Aug, 2024 Random stuff in the lab today
11 Aug, 2024 Bread time
11 Aug, 2024 Would you want them to grow up to be you?
09 Aug, 2024 Open cores on the Pico 2!
08 Aug, 2024 No middle ground
05 Aug, 2024 Fun puzzle
05 Aug, 2024 I spent my lunch break grabbing all of these signals, and then I realized that this board is PAL, and I'm currently working on NTSC. Happy Monday!
05 Aug, 2024 I need a filter for the "you may be old, but are you this old?" memes.
04 Aug, 2024 Phew, this one is intense.
03 Aug, 2024 I do a lot of bit/counter-slicing in Verilog. Sometimes, it's hard to visualize what a slice will look like on a counter, so I made a quick visualizer with a data table to help my brain.
02 Aug, 2024 VIC-20 FPGA VIC replacement Friday lunch break progress.
31 Jul, 2024 Having twenty-five 14.31818Mhz clocks is basically 360Mhz.
31 Jul, 2024 Still a Swift virgin, so I decided to kick the tires. My "Hello, World!" is to do 10PRINT in any new language. Pretty straightforward. Happy Wednesday!
30 Jul, 2024 I’m so impressed with these that I got two.
29 Jul, 2024 Just some Monday morning "avoiding the AWS issue" I'm struggling with...
28 Jul, 2024 Happy Dog
28 Jul, 2024 I don’t often 80 column on 8 bit machines, but when I do…
27 Jul, 2024 Laurel river hike with some friends
26 Jul, 2024 Friday update on the VIC-20 VIC chip replacement
25 Jul, 2024 VIC's Revenge Update
22 Jul, 2024 What does your doctor call you?
20 Jul, 2024 Quote of the week
20 Jul, 2024 Ouch. Remember when one of the design goals was to make this board inexpensive? The FPGA is no longer the most expensive component. /sigh
20 Jul, 2024 Ouch. Remember when one of the design goals was to make this board inexpensive?
20 Jul, 2024 This kind of stuff drives me crazy.
19 Jul, 2024 Phew! Crowdstrike didn't get me.
18 Jul, 2024 A rabbit, er, dinosaur hole
17 Jul, 2024 Well the color bars setup was weirdly easy. Maybe I’m finally getting good enough at FPGA development to trick people into thinking I know what I’m doing.
16 Jul, 2024 If there was just one thing I'd like to master in the rest of 2024, this is it.
16 Jul, 2024 Social media blah
15 Jul, 2024 Is that the right tool for the job?
15 Jul, 2024 It's always time to go WAY back to first principles.
14 Jul, 2024 It’s okay to mig weld in shorts right? Asking for a friend.
13 Jul, 2024 Great hike with a friend this morning. 3.8 miles and just under 1000 foot elevation change on the way up.
12 Jul, 2024 Smart Apples... errr... Commodore
09 Jul, 2024 Blah
08 Jul, 2024 Just tell the truth
03 Jul, 2024 DIY truck stuff
01 Jul, 2024 Smart Apples
30 Jun, 2024 I get to
24 Jun, 2024 Being early
24 Jun, 2024 Too many?
21 Jun, 2024 Turns out #10PRINT on the Atari VCS/2600 is pretty complicated. Happy Friday!
21 Jun, 2024 Distraction free writing
21 Jun, 2024 The last time
20 Jun, 2024 What’s interesting about this little guy hanging out in this pot is that it’s on our upper porch deck about 15 feet off the ground. Didn’t expect to see him there.
20 Jun, 2024 For the last year or so, I've been studying large companies to learn how to bring my business into the AI world.
19 Jun, 2024 Mr @cltrudeau 's new book arrived today in print. Excellent stuff
19 Jun, 2024 The AI you really need
17 Jun, 2024 Sometimes, you gotta do whatever you gotta to make it work
14 Jun, 2024 Well there’s a topic for discussion.
13 Jun, 2024 I’m just learning just how versatile these are.
12 Jun, 2024 Logging my first four miles with “barefoot” shoes. I’m a fan so far.
12 Jun, 2024 I read slightly ahead
10 Jun, 2024 I’m generally not a fan of ripping on other people’s work, even if the games are bad, but I do like learning about stuff I’ve not seen before.
09 Jun, 2024 The first Star Trek Movie really is the best one in the whole franchise.
09 Jun, 2024 Book from another book club I belong to arrived yesterday. Gonna be a quick read.
08 Jun, 2024 Heaven does exist
08 Jun, 2024 Well that’s new
07 Jun, 2024 Ah hah, found it
06 Jun, 2024 100k miles and still going strong. Never even changed the oil. Happy Friday!
06 Jun, 2024 A handful of the many desktops I use where no one is spying on me.
06 Jun, 2024 Hype Driven Development
05 Jun, 2024 Email sucks
05 Jun, 2024 I've done 10PRINT on so many computer like things. I should make a list ;-)
04 Jun, 2024 Lined up like little soldiers ;-)
03 Jun, 2024 Neater? Maybe.
02 Jun, 2024 This lady...
01 Jun, 2024 Bailey Mountain Hike
31 May, 2024 Got a hot tip from @8BitShowAndTell on the entire first year(1977) of Personal Computing. Expect to be bombarded with 1977 goodness over the next weeks. Happy Friday!
29 May, 2024 I’m sorry Dave
29 May, 2024 Deep thoughts from my Commodore VIC-20 (which will be just fine when the Cylons come back).
29 May, 2024 It’s always something
29 May, 2024 Now to pick a machine to test it in. Happy Wednesday!
28 May, 2024 New CAN bus hacker. Should be fun.
27 May, 2024 Hater's gonna hate
25 May, 2024 What? Don’t look at me like that. It’s for science.
24 May, 2024 Sometimes you just need to step away
23 May, 2024 Sitting on the porch listening to the rain. Might as well up my Verilog/FPGA skills while I’m at it.
23 May, 2024 Now that’s what I call a proper breakout board. Happy Thursday, go make something.
22 May, 2024 The cycle I'm trying to get out of
22 May, 2024 Endless fun
21 May, 2024 For no particular reason at all I’ve started taking inventory of the many computers I own that don’t take screenshots of everything I do every few seconds.
20 May, 2024 Losing my FujiNet virginity this afternoon
20 May, 2024 This is my workstation cleaned up. I might need an intervention.
18 May, 2024 Supposed to be stormy this afternoon so I’m gonna try and come up with some fun things to do with the Neo6502
16 May, 2024 I agreed to teach some FPGA first principles to a small group. This is my recommended board for beginner FPGA development. Has everything a growing boy needs :)
16 May, 2024 Finally figured out how to beat @8BitShowAndTell 's Hypothetical "Game 31" from his Iwata video without watching the spoiler. My life is now complete.
15 May, 2024 Compressed and decidedly not better
14 May, 2024 Doing a little breadth first searching on the KIM-1 using a Commodore 64 as a terminal.
14 May, 2024 Oh cool, iOS release. I’ll bet it has groundbreaking new functionality. Or… a wallpaper.
13 May, 2024 If you're not learning Fortran today, what are you even doing with your life? Happy Monday!
12 May, 2024 THIS
11 May, 2024 Outside today because it’s 65F and Sunny, but yesterday I finally got my Neo6502 fixed. Was a bad solder joint from manufacturing.
10 May, 2024 I still use Practicalc almost every day. It’s quirky but it works. Happy Friday!
07 May, 2024 Company retreat at a Casino, which means I don’t know what to do with myself. Also, breakfast places don’t open till 7. I guess I’ll go for a hike. Sigh.
03 May, 2024 Trying to decide if I want to go down this rabbit hole
02 May, 2024 Fishing with Dad is always better than work
02 May, 2024 More reflecting on the 60th anniversary of BASIC
30 Apr, 2024 I have a number of books without decent scans available online. I kept the bookmark that came with this once since a punchcard seemed appropriate. Scanning this one (carefully) this week.
30 Apr, 2024 My hat is off to the person who designed this DIP/CPLD Board for the ULA81.
30 Apr, 2024 Stole this from X...
29 Apr, 2024 Sure you’ve used Super Snapshot, but did you know it before it was Super? Made in Canada…
28 Apr, 2024 Impromptu trip with my youngest to Charleston for the weekend where he continues the family tradition of people taking pictures of me looking at water without me knowing they are.
28 Apr, 2024 I love that a small community will form so quickly around stuff like this
24 Apr, 2024 I just picked up a handful of processors from Mouser. I always find the date codes on brand-new hardware interesting. They must have a ton of these on the shelf.
24 Apr, 2024 The grass isn't always greener
23 Apr, 2024 With a ZXpand+, this thing rivals any modern supercomputer
22 Apr, 2024 Learning AI Week 2
22 Apr, 2024 Head down mode
20 Apr, 2024 This is the flattest part of our whole property, so that’s where the garden got moved to.
20 Apr, 2024 On a side quest mission for @8BitShowAndTell because… science.
19 Apr, 2024 How do you spot an "AI" developer?
18 Apr, 2024 Single Stepping for the WIN
18 Apr, 2024 Okay, fine, I'll jump on the AI bandwagon.
17 Apr, 2024 If you wake up early enough, you can sneak an hour of trout fishing in before work.
16 Apr, 2024 Still my favorite laptop
16 Apr, 2024 Fasting
15 Apr, 2024 Actual footage of the IRS behemoth computer system processing your returns today. Gonna be a while.
15 Apr, 2024 Fancy keyboard
15 Apr, 2024 Recording retro tape output to Audacity
15 Apr, 2024 Pixel perfect?
15 Apr, 2024 Rethinking the approach
14 Apr, 2024 More than a like please
14 Apr, 2024 Okay, the Sinclair 1000 / ZX81 is pretty cool
13 Apr, 2024 Sometimes you find gold with thrift stores. A VERY good copy of The First Book of KIM for… $3. Crazy.
11 Apr, 2024 Update on the donated Sinclair 1000 that "doesn't work"
10 Apr, 2024 Updating the firmware on all my test equipment today
10 Apr, 2024 You know you're doing something right when you have your own directory on people's SD2IEC cards.
08 Apr, 2024 Eclipse 2024
08 Apr, 2024 There's always something.
07 Apr, 2024 I might have to hug a VIC-20 after this
05 Apr, 2024 A little Friday fun… continuing my quest to do 10PRINT on all the things. This morning I figured out a reasonable version for the HP-42S.
04 Apr, 2024 My HP-42S has had this crap on it for years, and I don't know what it is. I can't easily scrape it off, and it really bugs me. Old calculator problems...
02 Apr, 2024 After the xz supply chain attack news last week, this is now the newest computer I have any faith in whatsoever.
02 Apr, 2024 Some truths are self-evident.
01 Apr, 2024 Doing another composite mod for someone
01 Apr, 2024 I'm not an April Fools fan at all. I think I'll switch to platforms that can't even access the internet.
30 Mar, 2024 Took a deer hair spinning class today. From left to right my first to the final one I did. The last one turned out great and I feel like I can make these now. An afternoon well spent. Next is to see how they fish.
30 Mar, 2024 xz vulnerability on a Mac with Homebrew
29 Mar, 2024 Any progress is progress.
28 Mar, 2024 This is a fun game but you NEED the manual and accompanying stuff for it to be playable. What other games from pre 1993 do you like that are like this?
27 Mar, 2024 This was released yesterday and I’m about halfway through it. If you have kids, this might be the most important book published in quite some time.
27 Mar, 2024 The best thing about remembering the time before cell phones: When you were really mad, you could SLAM the phone down to hang up. It was glorious.
27 Mar, 2024 Stuck
26 Mar, 2024 My youngest got me a travel Mig Welder and new helmet for my birthday because “you never know when you need to fuse metal on the go”.
25 Mar, 2024 This handwritten note fell out of this book.
25 Mar, 2024 I write, even if no one reads it.
24 Mar, 2024 Moving the garden this year, and it’s basically like starting over. Progress is being made.
23 Mar, 2024 Working on my 10 top games of all time list. I've got it down to the top 150. 150 is close to 10, right?
22 Mar, 2024 If you think it’s subliminal messaging instead of a plan and discipline that’ll be your key to success, then boy do I have a cassette for you.
22 Mar, 2024 “Vintage gaming TV”
22 Mar, 2024 I often have a PET demo or game playing in the background of video meetings. Today’s choice is a fun one. Happy Friday.
21 Mar, 2024 I found some coins I brought back from a trip to Moscow in 1992 and used my Commodore calculator to estimate their current value.
21 Mar, 2024 My version of the McNuggets problem in BASIC. Happy Thursday!
20 Mar, 2024 I was skeptical about these, but I have a fair number of devices that use 9v batteries. These rechargeables work great.
17 Mar, 2024 Brush clearing day two. I win for most arm and leg cuts from thicket.
16 Mar, 2024 Brush clearing day. I can skip the gym today for sure.
15 Mar, 2024 The Bloody Hundredth
15 Mar, 2024 My Ti Programmer (1977ish) is a curious one.
14 Mar, 2024 Happy pi day from me and my Commodore PET 2001-8N!
13 Mar, 2024 Partly metal, partly real
13 Mar, 2024 My least favorite X feature:
12 Mar, 2024 I don't use the ESP32 module on my Ultimate64 much. But I deserve some credit for my choice of DHCP address reservation.
09 Mar, 2024 Less
09 Mar, 2024 Blog forward
09 Mar, 2024 On the laptop prowl
08 Mar, 2024 Low resolution is fine
07 Mar, 2024 I spent a few minutes working on the visuals of the Enigma ring positions in Assembly.
06 Mar, 2024 I picked up this promotional poster for this Sybex title because I love this book so much. Palm V for scale on both the book and the poster… the poster is MUCH bigger than I expected. Now to find a place to put it.
06 Mar, 2024 My modern graphing calculators from most to least favorite.
04 Mar, 2024 I happen to like my day job, but a slow day fishing with my Dad beats work any day of the week.
03 Mar, 2024 Today’s $25 thrift store find: AI resistant writing tool. These Electra series typewriters are fabulous to type on.
02 Mar, 2024 Reimagining our property in 2024. Project number three for the winter is a mini high tunnel.
29 Feb, 2024 Happy leap day! Decided to do some Gregorian calendar leap year calculations in assembly the hard way. KIM-1 clone is the right tool for the job!
27 Feb, 2024 This "Caring for your Computer" book by Rodnay Zaks/Sybex from 1981 has some EXTREMELY RELEVANT life advice for 2024. Control your emotions... brilliant.
26 Feb, 2024 The keys on this Commodore calculator look pretty familiar to many of us.
24 Feb, 2024 Decided to take the plunge and buy a computer for our home. There are a lot of choices so I found this book to help us decide what’s right for us.
23 Feb, 2024 I have absolutely no memory of this day or who took this picture. But there is proof that I smiled once. It was the 90s, and this is probably at 2 am, so that's my excuse.
22 Feb, 2024 Another super interesting book for my Zaks collection.
21 Feb, 2024 Interference? Whatever, my signal wiring is perfect.
21 Feb, 2024 I get so many questions about this thing on Zoom calls.
20 Feb, 2024 Another great one in the Sybex/Rodnay Zaks collection.
20 Feb, 2024 Change
19 Feb, 2024 I propose we change AI to AIT, meaning Automated Idea Thief.
19 Feb, 2024 Enjoying this add-on to the Flipper. "Games" will be cool, but making screen captures of the Flipper is really what I wanted. Almost as cool as a Commodore (which can also play DOOM).
15 Feb, 2024 Converting my 6502 Cluster to run WOZMON and MS BASIC. It was running just machine code and sometimes Eh-BASIC, but this fits my style better. Happy Thursday!
14 Feb, 2024 Ah HAH. So, THIS is how they came up with those patterns in the 80s
13 Feb, 2024 Funny how time goes by so fast. I put almost 500 hours on that plane in 3 years
13 Feb, 2024 It's a fun and very short little book, but the number of typos, especially in the code listings, is next level. Bravo!
12 Feb, 2024 It's day 12 with the Atari 800XL, and I'm wrapping my head around how far ahead it was in several areas. For example, graphics like this are actually relatively easy.
11 Feb, 2024 You say caps lock, I say return key. Let’s say we all get along.
11 Feb, 2024 Game starts early in my time zone.
09 Feb, 2024 I heard that Canada is thinking of banning these. I only use mine to play asteroids. Silly Canada. 😇
08 Feb, 2024 There are countless places to be an audience member. Just by using my phone, I could be a passive listener for 1000 lifetimes. I'm looking for community and relationships.
08 Feb, 2024 I feel really spoiled on the C64 with TMP. I use Merlin on the Apple II, which is pretty good. Currently trying MAC/65 on the Atari 800. Does anyone have a different Assembler they like better?
07 Feb, 2024 I found what I think is the greatest computer book cover of all time. Please tell me I can find a physical copy of this somewhere
07 Feb, 2024 More Atari BASIC vs Turbo BASIC XL fun with my "standard marginal method" benchmark. I always thought the jiffy clock wasn't available on the Atari, but it lacks a convenient method. It still works fine if you use it directly.
06 Feb, 2024 Stupid races
06 Feb, 2024 Ported my Commodore 64 N-Queens solver to the Atari 800. It's only about 8% slower and was a snap to port.
05 Feb, 2024 Looking for something fun to make with this thing. Suggestions?
02 Feb, 2024 It's been a weird week. Also, Turbo BASIC seems like a required upgrade for the 800XL. Happy Friday.
31 Jan, 2024 Hello darkness, my old friend.
30 Jan, 2024 Too head down?
28 Jan, 2024 Daylight savings is not in the winter!
27 Jan, 2024 Adding another one to my Zaks collection. Love this one.
26 Jan, 2024 Switched to this serial multiplexer by Atlas Scientific for my 6502 cluster communications. This lets me keep everything serial and control it with an 8-bit computer for job scheduling and data aggregation. Happy Friday!
25 Jan, 2024 I got the last Christmas present of the year from my Son today. He had a custom wood map made for me that took months longer than anticipated. Definitely worth the wait.
25 Jan, 2024 My Dad was a mainframe guy from 1974-2007. He was cleaning out a drawer and says “hey, do you want this?” Why yes, yes I do.
24 Jan, 2024 Modern PCB manufacturing has become so easy and convenient. It's basically the same price to get 50 as it is to get 5 boards made. So that means I have 49 spares...
23 Jan, 2024 We have about 12 inches of dead space above our kitchen cabinets. My better half suggested that a train might work up there. There isn’t really room to turn one around so something that can run equally well in either direction seemed appropriate. Now to design a bridge to go over the window… I’m not into celebrities, but if pressed I don’t have to think hard to come up with my favorite. Any guesses?
23 Jan, 2024 It's a random lunchtime side quest, working to generate a circle with 41 of character 81 on a Commodore 64. Each iteration has been getting smoother. If you have a better way, let me know.
23 Jan, 2024 The first two games I have any memory of playing. They both still stand up today. I didn’t intentionally start alphabetically, but it worked out that way.
23 Jan, 2024 Walmart beats DHL by miles
21 Jan, 2024 This is why I always remove the RF shields.
21 Jan, 2024 What’s the best way to get this stick-on heat sink and the adhesive off of this VIC-II?
19 Jan, 2024 Snowed/iced in this evening. Might as well hook up the 6502 cluster to a VIC-20 and get it calculating things at blazing speeds :) Been using the EEPROM emulator since early last year to really speed up my ROM development cycles. Oh, here’s another 100% AI free zone.
19 Jan, 2024 I’ve been saving the Kawari for when I have a VIC-II fail which is silly. They are 40 years old, why would I think they’d fail this year?
18 Jan, 2024 These are books 1 and 3 in this series and they are some of my favorite computer books of all time. I’m on the prowl for books 2 and 4. Happy Thursday!
16 Jan, 2024 I’m the one who put this “working” label on this power supply but I have never, ever plugged it in without verifying. It’s actually my only working 2 prong. I have three with bad transformers.
16 Jan, 2024 Checking for AI free zones. Found one.
15 Jan, 2024 Porting Wozmon to my 6502 cluster nodes and I spent several hours chasing a “bug” in my code. Turns out I had this box unchecked in my terminal emulator. Was working all along. Doh.
15 Jan, 2024 This week’s side quest: going to interface my Flipper Zero to a 6502 SBC. Should be fun.
14 Jan, 2024 Grover > Elmo
10 Jan, 2024 Emulator vs real
09 Jan, 2024 This is the first time my 2020 Intel Mac has been too old for something. Too soon.
08 Jan, 2024 Rust isn't an excellent language for scripting, but I've been playing with it in JupyterLab just for fun.
03 Jan, 2024 Visualizing the 23-bit random number/noise generator in the Commodore 64 SID
03 Jan, 2024 How much will it cost?
02 Jan, 2024 This album makes excellent use of the record sleeve. I had this on cassette as a kid and I feel like it was also on the cassette sleeve, but I’m not trusting my memory on that.
01 Jan, 2024 A little after Christmas, Christmas present. The detail is really impressive.
30 Dec, 2023 This is why I went back to buying physical books and movies. I can’t read this at the hotel because my Kindle hasn’t been able to verify the DRM this morning. It was online YESTERDAY. Make paper great again.
20 Dec, 2023 Found these in a bin this morning. I can throw away all of my other electronics now that I have 4 do anything chips :)
20 Dec, 2023 The Spudger is the most used tool in my shop. I need a 10 pack of them.
16 Dec, 2023 Any calculator where the manual mentions two's compliment is a keeper in my book ;-)
14 Dec, 2023 In 2021, I did a deep dive into Swift; I no longer use it. In 2022, it was Julia. I don't use it anymore. 2023 was Elixir; my usage is dropping off. In 2024, it's going to be Rust. Will it remain in my toolbox or be another tangent for me? Time will tell.
14 Dec, 2023 My all time favorite book
11 Dec, 2023 Just finished building this guy. It's a fun project and a decent learning environment to mash the RP2040 C++ environment with 6502 Assembly. It's an unlikely but surprisingly good pairing. What would be better on the RP2040, though? Rust.
11 Dec, 2023 A little Logo fun this morning on the C64 since I saw a few snowflakes outside.
09 Dec, 2023 Don't be a drone
08 Dec, 2023 21 years old, still a useful book. Not many computer books can say that.
06 Dec, 2023 Day 6 of #AdventOfCode part 1 was a snap for the PET
05 Dec, 2023 Alright Mr PET, you’re sitting #adventofcode2023 out today. Today’s is a doozy and you’ve earned a break.
04 Dec, 2023 I appreciate modern conveniences more: first principles are worth it. Today's #adventofcode2023 in Python was 14 lines. Was 68 on the PET. Things like re.split("\s+", line) and list(map(int, parts[2:12])) feel like cheating. Do y'all even know how any of this works? ;-)
03 Dec, 2023 It's just a big screen
02 Dec, 2023 Didn't have much trouble with #AdventOfCode today BUT I'm reminded of how modern languages can do things like s.split(":") and get a nice list. Appreciate how much work went into that built-in function we take for granted. String splitting 1979 style for that 1st set of cubes...
02 Dec, 2023 When is it cheating?
02 Dec, 2023 Just popped over to the local Sears to get some new paddles. Totally rad.
01 Dec, 2023 Wow, #AdventOfCode Day 1 was much more challenging than how it usually starts
30 Nov, 2023 Selling this or cannibalizing it for parts. It’s the only green Cerberus 2080 I’ve seen.
30 Nov, 2023 Haven't had this guy out for a walk in a while. Happy Thursday!
29 Nov, 2023 Minor Micro-Soft (yes, 1976 spelling)/Commodore BASIC nitpick. Arrays are zero-based (as god intended), but MID$ is one-based. I mixed up this as a kid and sometimes get tripped up today. Anyway, I'm reviewing my 2022 #aventofcode stuff to prep for Friday.
28 Nov, 2023 Today's Pomodoro breaks are brought to you by the VIC-20 and Virtual Burnout by LukHash
28 Nov, 2023 Ephemeral things
27 Nov, 2023 Fixing a VIC-20 for someone. That’s a bad clock signal, but it’s also kinda neat looking.
27 Nov, 2023 I’ve completed all 25 days of #adventofcode the last 4 years. Last year I did about 1/3 of them on my Commodore PET 2001. Sometimes the data was too unruly to try to get onto it so for those I resorted to Julia. Should I use the PET again this year or a different 8 bit computer?
27 Nov, 2023 I take excellent notes, but every once in a while, I'll take something out and stare at it wondering... where is the CPU for this one, and why did I take it out?
26 Nov, 2023 In case you were just sitting there wondering... C64Forever/AmigaForever seems to run okayish in Whiskey on an M1 Mac.
26 Nov, 2023 A little light ARM assembly reading this morning. And yes, we have three Christmas trees. You’re not the boss of us.
25 Nov, 2023 Got a fun emulator project in the works with a mechboard. Since the keycaps are breadbin colored I went with the breadbin colored case even if it’s not traditional for the C64c case.
24 Nov, 2023 I keep seeing this 1982-3 ad of a Commodore 64 in a briefcase. It DOES, in fact, fit in a standard-sized briefcase, although I'm not sure I know why I would have wanted to.
24 Nov, 2023 10print on the TI-nspire. Also Python and feels like cheating. Still fun though. Happy Friday!
23 Nov, 2023 Happy thanksgiving in the US. For Today’s 10PRINT the @NumWorks calculator has Python instead of Basic and I got it on one line even if it’s hard to read like that. This calculator sure is fast!
22 Nov, 2023 A little Thanksgiving week fun. Here's 10PRINT on a TI-92. I couldn't find a way to escape a new line, so I tried a different approach. Also, iPhones have difficulty locking focus on this screen.
20 Nov, 2023 Has anyone considered that maybe the AI is coordinating the board coup at OpenAI? Where are my wire cutters?
20 Nov, 2023 A little sanity/verification that my two's compliment circuit is working. It is, and it was without any debugging, which freaks me out. Happy Monday!
19 Nov, 2023 Okay, I'm putting the C128 away and going to my happy place. I've always wanted to love the 128 but give me a VIC-20 or C64, and that's where I'm truly happy.
19 Nov, 2023 One of the many “don’t forget to teach your kids how to” things.
17 Nov, 2023 A little Friday night VIC-20 VIC chip replacement fun. Finally getting around to NTSC. My test bench looks right for the clocks I need to generate. Wild and crazy around here on Friday nights ;)
16 Nov, 2023 These ROMs have 8 switchable ROM images on them. And by using a rotary switch to select them, you can play Russian roulette. Which ROM did we get this time, Dad?
16 Nov, 2023 Safety third.
15 Nov, 2023 Sometimes, I've just got to step away. Went to build my FPGA test bench, and now GTKWave on my Mac needs an obsolete module from an ancient Perl version to launch via the command line. I give up for today. The VIC-20 video test will have to wait. Sigh.
15 Nov, 2023 Anyone else need to do something with their hands during meetings?
14 Nov, 2023 I’ve decided to start theming the years.
13 Nov, 2023 When I sit and think about WHY I'm building a VIC chip drop-in, I sometimes lose sight of the goal. But just today, one of the CIAs on my Commodore 128 died. So happy for products like the J-CIA. This 128 has many drop-in replacement parts and is a good motivator.
11 Nov, 2023 A donated 1541 with nice VIC colors. It does work but the fuse holder is broken and there’s a scorch mark next to it. Might replace it with modernish power supply after I thoroughly clean it. Cool to have a long board variant.
10 Nov, 2023 Designed a simple demo in Logisim, which worked great. But it's not nearly as satisfying as making it for real. So... out comes the breadboard. I wonder if I can make the wires neat... probably not. Happy Friday!
10 Nov, 2023 These are a few of my favorite things
09 Nov, 2023 Just found this in a box. We RAN home from school to catch this at 4pm on weekdays.
08 Nov, 2023 Out of all the gates, XOR is my favorite. Happy Wednesday!
07 Nov, 2023 Commodore AND keyword
06 Nov, 2023 The Mechboard64 does not work out of the box with a KeyRah v3. I did figure out a workaround so I’m going to write up some detailed instructions in case anyone else wants to put these two things together. VIC-20 colored keycaps for me of course.
06 Nov, 2023 ChatGPT is like a terrible junior engineer
05 Nov, 2023 Another impressive SwissMicros replica.
04 Nov, 2023 Looking forward to when those new keycaps will be available again. I CANNOT bring myself to cannibalize a perfectly working original C64 keyboard for this.
04 Nov, 2023 Working on myself
03 Nov, 2023 I love these things but it took a long time to get here. Going in a Breadbin tonight in time for some holiday tunes.
03 Nov, 2023 1541 surgery time
03 Nov, 2023 I have tried several 80 column solutions. The RGBtoHDMI by @TexElecUSA is the best by a long shot. Happy Friday!
02 Nov, 2023 Saved my #NaNoWriMo2023 work to a 5.25 today to keep ⁦‪@GetOuttaHeah‬⁩ from yelling at me for using modern stuff like 3.5 inch floppies. Happy Thursday!
01 Nov, 2023 Both of the programmer calculators I have are missing y^x functions. At least on the HP-16C I can write a short program to do that. I use y^x more than the average bear. Still like this Casio a lot though.
01 Nov, 2023 My post earlier about writing on a KIM-1 by typing in hex ASCII codes by hand was a joke, obviously. My real distraction-resistant writing platform for #Nanowrimo2023 is my HP t5710 Thin Client running FreeDOS and WordPerfect 6. Just for fun, I'm going to save my work on floppies
31 Oct, 2023 Alight @8BitShowAndTell, challenge accepted. Until 3 minutes ago I wasn’t even sure the 128 had the Kernal routines for the Datasette.
31 Oct, 2023 Working on my distraction free #NaNoWriMo setup. Using this table I’m up to typing as fast as two words a minute. If I don’t sleep, there’s 43200 minutes in November so I can hit the 50000 word goal for the month of I account for the inevitable going crazy from lack of sleep
25 Oct, 2023 My copy of David Youd's book came today. I had already implemented $3A earlier this week, which timed nicely with my n-queens implementation in BASIC. Pretty fun!
23 Oct, 2023 Untested 1541. Just spins and spins. I’m sure this capacitor came from the factory like that :)
20 Oct, 2023 That is quite the clever hex-to-decimal converter for the 6502. Embrace constraints and happy Friday!
19 Oct, 2023 I’m excited to be able to really study this text.
12 Oct, 2023 The N-Queens problem feels easier to understand and more fun to implement on old computery things.
12 Oct, 2023 N-Queens solver is working great on the KIM-1. Now to finish the article ;-)
09 Oct, 2023 Somebody was glad my puffy coat was in the truck. 38 degrees on our hike today.
02 Oct, 2023 It's October, so Halloween themed Zoom meeting help is in order. Just in case this game wasn't hard enough, try the Commodore 64 version on a joystick with a single button. Jump is up... so hard like this.
30 Sep, 2023 Is this good for me?
29 Sep, 2023 Solving the 8-queens problem on a Commodore 64. I won't leave it in the final version, but sometimes it's fun to print the output of loops to watch your backtracking algorithm work. Happy Friday!
27 Sep, 2023 Wednesday shenanigans
26 Sep, 2023 On my morning walk/hike and I just saw a bear run through that foggy area. I think I will turn around a little bit early this morning.
25 Sep, 2023 This is the correct layout of cursor keys. All other layouts are inferior.
25 Sep, 2023 These are the two keyboards in my office. Both brown mechanical switches and are fantastic to type on, but the fact that they have different arrow key layouts really trips me up sometimes. Anyway, happy Monday!
23 Sep, 2023 Some people say my 35 year old bow should be retired. New bow technology is better or some nonsense. The secret to archery is in the archer, not the bow. That’s why I shoot better than you, whipper snapper.
22 Sep, 2023 Still my best distraction-resistant writing setup. FreeDOS, Wordperfect 6.22, mechanical keyboard with brown switches on an HP t5710 thin client (they make GREAT DOS machines).
21 Sep, 2023 I'm stuck on something in my day job. Gonna switch gears and do some therapy, back to implementing Enigma 8-bit style. Where we're going, there's gonna be a lot of assembly coding ;-) Happy Fall!
20 Sep, 2023 I read every single page and typed in every single line of code in both of these books. Something I told myself I would do when I was a kid, but you know kids. Definitely worth the effort.
18 Sep, 2023 If I am remembering correctly, I graduated boot camp in San Diego 30 years ago today.
16 Sep, 2023 GM touch screens are comically unreliable. Dealer wanted $800 to fix it. A little parts research, Torx bits and a heat gun and I did it for $34 in an hour. New touch screen is all shiny. Hack the planet.
15 Sep, 2023 I'm trying to decide if I knew you could do this in MS style BASIC before just now or not. Surely I did right?
15 Sep, 2023 Found this receipt in this book being used as a bookmark. Decided to keep using it as a bookmark. Happy Friday!
13 Sep, 2023 A rare occasion where I prefer the look of the beige model.
08 Sep, 2023 Had a lot of fun learning TI Extended BASIC for the TI 99/4A to port a Rail Fence Cipher from my Commodore 64 version.
07 Sep, 2023 Alright, the TI 99/4A is really growing on me. Decided to get my hands a little dirtier and write a simple Cipher in Extended BASIC. There is a lot of string manipulation in Cipher work. Commodore version, side by side, and article tomorrow. 34 lines of code, easy peasy.
05 Sep, 2023 One issue with the TI fixed. Cassette interface now good to go. I have another cassette player around here somewhere with a counter on it which would be useful. On to what’s wrong with the cart port.
03 Sep, 2023 Slowly undressed the TI 99/4a… made bow chica wow wow sounds while I did it. Cassette interface and cartridges don’t work. Time to find some schematics.
02 Sep, 2023 What a super interesting book.
01 Sep, 2023 Whelp, it's #Septandy. Since I only have Cocos, we'll see how long I can look at the soothing toxic green before turning into a Ninja Turtle. Is it #VICober yet?
31 Aug, 2023 Keys are all unstuck. That. Was. Tedious.
30 Aug, 2023 More Septandy prep. Still my least favorite line of retro computers to actually use but I’m gonna try to find some parts to love.
30 Aug, 2023 Tandy Coco 1 keyboard: it’s nice and clean inside but the plungers on this side are mechanically difficult to press and get hung up. Ideas?
30 Aug, 2023 Without using TI Extended BASIC (yet), this is the shortest I've managed a 10 PRINT on a TI 99/4A. It's not 1 line, but it's easy to understand and has the advantage of making any two characters you want quickly on the fly to randomly print.
30 Aug, 2023 Just arrived. Pretty cool! I was in VAQ-209 from 1994 to 1999.
29 Aug, 2023 Attempt #3 of 10 PRINT on the TI 99/4A: While a far cry from the elegance and simplicity of the Commodore 10 PRINT, this version at least got me to learn how to redefine characters on the fly and make it look much better.
29 Aug, 2023 Take number two is even uglier so I decided to do it a second pass vertically. It's also super slow which is... nice... Next I think we redefine some characters to at least make the "maze" look better. If we can't make it fast or even close to one line, we can at least put some lipstick on it.
29 Aug, 2023 Playing around a little with TI 99/4A BASIC. It's different than what I'm used to, but I do like the IF-THEN-ELSE. Here's try #1 at a 10 PRINT program. Surely we can do better than this.
29 Aug, 2023 Always a good morning when there's @8BitShowAndTell Turbo Macro Pro code to study and contemplate. Happy Tuesday!
28 Aug, 2023 I feel weird opening this but I need the cable… 1982 in the package.
24 Aug, 2023 Traded a Coco2 for my first TI-99/4A "untested." I don't have direct experience with TI hardware. Assumed my experience meant I would be able to fix whatever might be wrong. It works just fine, which is slightly disappointing because I love restoring old computery things.
23 Aug, 2023 I was a guest on @8BitShowAndTell's last video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTxiR4ZKfvo) and in it he gave me a new title. This is a longstanding inside joke between Robin, @DarrenFoulds and me from their 80s podcast (which is on a break). I decided to make it official by getting it in print.
23 Aug, 2023 All computer books should be spiral-bound
22 Aug, 2023 I’m about a year into the DM42 replacing my 32SII that was my daily driver for almost 30 years. Hard to argue with how well that HP stood up to being abused in my laptop bag all that time and still works like a champ. They don’t often make ‘em like they used to.
21 Aug, 2023 Using the old “RF modulator from a broken VCR” trick again.
19 Aug, 2023 Fishing was slow, but the rest was fantastic.
18 Aug, 2023 Still working on these routines. Happy Friday!
16 Aug, 2023 Don’t forget to show your PETs some love. Happy Wednesday!
15 Aug, 2023 ML line drawing routines are working well. Happy Tuesday! #firstprinciples
14 Aug, 2023 Had these two books on my shelf as a kid. Always thought that I should spend the time to understand them. At 11, self-discipline was hard. I might be late, but just finished the first one. Every page, every line of code. Starting the second tonight. First principles is the way.
13 Aug, 2023 Nice and cool in the balsam forrest.
12 Aug, 2023 I’m trying to imagine getting my VIC replacement even close to the size of this thing. Really impressed.
11 Aug, 2023 Error checking type in data entry is all the rage these days. Happy Friday!
10 Aug, 2023 Just another random stretch of my daily walk. This is the only flat part. I’ve been doing more or less the same 3.5 mile walk 3-5 times a week for 10 years. It wasn’t until I took out the headphones and stopped tracking my health stats that it became really transformative.
09 Aug, 2023 I don't think Forth is some closet technology waiting for its moment. But it makes me think about problems differently, so I continue studying it.
08 Aug, 2023 The back of the Super Expander manual has some fun listings. Here's the first one.
07 Aug, 2023 Many asked about making the grid with the stock BASIC. It can be done, and is even fairly straightforward, but it's awfully slow (40 minutes). Still fun though.
06 Aug, 2023 French Broad was low today. Julie led most of the way for about 6 miles as we picked our way through the rocks.
05 Aug, 2023 It's rumored that @elonmusk's first computer was a VIC-20. I thought doing the logo would be easier than it turned out to be, but it's still just 10 lines of code, thanks to Super Expander. #commodore #vic20
05 Aug, 2023 I’ll probably get good money for these deck boards if I call them vintage.
05 Aug, 2023 :%s/A.I./Master Control/g
04 Aug, 2023 I saw this in a grocery store in Ely Minnesota. I wish I had bought it.
04 Aug, 2023 At Commodore in 1982, someone was like "let's make a knockoff, but should we at least make it look and sound like it's not at knockoff?" Nahhh, ship it!
04 Aug, 2023 These are nutritionally interesting but texturally challenging.
04 Aug, 2023 I'm sitting here realizing that I don't actually know how to send a high res screen on the VIC-20 to a printer. Hmmm.
04 Aug, 2023 Can't leave out the VIC-20. Happy Friday
02 Aug, 2023 More than one person called me out for using Python to make my Commodore screen grid. Assembly is easy enough, but I already had my SuperExpander out for another project. I had both it and SIMON's BASIC in the 80s, so I'm calling it "fair to use" as it's authentic to my childhood
02 Aug, 2023 I’m jaded with 2023 technology at work today. Time to revisit the 80s.
02 Aug, 2023 Visualizing the season's progressing, nerd style.
01 Aug, 2023 So I'm to understand that everyone doesn't write Python programs to generate 40x25 sheets to lay out vintage computer screen ideas on Tuesday nights. Apparently just me. Okay then. ;-)
01 Aug, 2023 Hi res 10 Print style render inspired by @8BitShowAndTell this morning. Takes a lot of Mississippi’s to finish the whole screen.
01 Aug, 2023 Looking through my photos and noticed this strange nighttime glitch shot of the Adler Planetarium from a boat in the harbor. Trying to figure out how this happened but it’s kinda neat.
31 Jul, 2023 I want to use a PET to explain simple shift ciphers. The challenge is comparing the current and standard English distribution with only 40x25 characters. Two graphs on the screen would be better. Giving it another think because I'm not happy with this.
30 Jul, 2023 I’m thinking maybe a PET theme for August. Haven’t had the MiniPET out in a while so I’ll start with that.
27 Jul, 2023 There’s a view I don’t get often.
27 Jul, 2023 Second Great Lake this summer.
27 Jul, 2023 Happy
27 Jul, 2023 There’s a lunch provided at the conference but I have science data to gather.
27 Jul, 2023 I’ve reached that part of my career where I’m supposed to write my own FORTH which is what FORTH is best at.
26 Jul, 2023 Not a city boy at heart, but Chicago is nice to look at during the night.
26 Jul, 2023 Studying 8-bit FORTH for a couple weeks mainly to look at problems differently
25 Jul, 2023 Finally repaired my beloved Sharp 9300(from High School) so it’s in today’s episode of stupid races between old computery things. Fibonacci to 35 and the VIC-20 still wins. Good effort though.
25 Jul, 2023 I use cartridge port expanders quite a bit. I don’t have much use past 2 ports on either the Commodore 64 or VIC-20. I kinda want to see if I can devise a memory map setup on the VIC-20 to use all 5 slots. For science.
25 Jul, 2023 This HP-45 Emulator is freaking amazing.
24 Jul, 2023 Found this in a box. I wonder what it is a backup of. Don’t have a drive to read it anyway.
24 Jul, 2023 Happy Monday
23 Jul, 2023 I have a friend who wants to start a new business with me. He just sent me mock-ups hand drawn on graph paper. This is my love language.
22 Jul, 2023 Short bed truck problems.
20 Jul, 2023 Okay, FORTH language people, what problem areas is FORTH particularly well suited for? I'm past the super beginner stages and ready to apply it to a problem area to see how I feel about it.
20 Jul, 2023 Godspeed Kevin
19 Jul, 2023 Four mile walk and wrote 833 more words on a position paper for a DevSecOps industry strategy before 8am so I rewarded myself with a random game on the VIC-20. Rod's Random Runner Picked Splatform which is one of my favorites. What are the chances?! Happy Wednesday!
18 Jul, 2023 I’m sure quite a few people were sitting sipping some morning coffee, wondering if there was a good cheat sheet for SpeedScript. Well, Compute Gazette May 1987 has your solution. Happy Tuesday!
17 Jul, 2023 Mint in the box. And certified for freshness. Maybe there’s some 1990s air trapped inside.
17 Jul, 2023 Sure it's crazy easy to create visuals these days, but why did it somehow used to seem cooler even if it's not as accurate?
17 Jul, 2023 Morning workout route never disappoints even if the fog is obscuring the mountains.
16 Jul, 2023 My morning reading combo. These go together right?
15 Jul, 2023 It’s a hard knock life
13 Jul, 2023 Made a minor adjustment to get the 10PRINT in Forth from @8BitShowAndTell 's 64FORTH video adapted to VICFORTH on the Commodore VIC-20. Using VICFORTH itself as the source of randomness which starts at $A000 on the VIC. Nifty.
12 Jul, 2023 This is a quirky and interesting Forth implementation. Gonna try some frequency distribution on it to see if it'll work for some of my silly crypto on 8 Bit work
12 Jul, 2023 Still my favorite writing setup (besides a typewriter). HP Thin Client I paid $10 for running DOS and WordPerfect 6. I use a 3.5 inch floppy drive to move documents on and off of it just because I like it.
12 Jul, 2023 VIM on DOS… interesting. I’m here for the WordPerfect but I’m intrigued.
11 Jul, 2023 I’d like to announce that I’m also forking RedHat. I’m starting with a slightly earlier version (the last time it was good).
10 Jul, 2023 Whelp, this is a good start. I have two working spares. Now to wire it up on a breadboard to reverse engineer. But first, we read the datasheets! #RTFM
10 Jul, 2023 Sigh. Mounted my Corsham KIM-1 clone on plexiglass. Had this project on my list for months and cracked it on the last hole. Can’t win em all.
10 Jul, 2023 That’s a weird place for a loose connection. At least it’s easy to get to. Happy Monday
06 Jul, 2023 And now we do the dance of joy. A lot of folks are into this new Cart for the games, but I’m here for this menu.
05 Jul, 2023 I needed to calculate (26! / (12!(26-12)!))*(12-1)!!
04 Jul, 2023 I don’t know. I think we could stack at least three more.
03 Jul, 2023 Confession. Sometimes I use a 1541-II with a VIC-20 because I’m too lazy to look through storage boxes.
01 Jul, 2023 I love that @ben_eater is doing a deep dives into Wozmon. Been in my KIM-1 toolbox for some time. Amazing how much is packed into less than 256 bytes of code. Doing another month of my Corsham KIM-1 on my desk in memory of it's late creator Bob Applegate who passed last month.
30 Jun, 2023 Working on my VCS cartridge collection. I vividly remember selling ours at a garage sale in the late 80s. Definitely need Pitfall next. Happy Friday.
30 Jun, 2023 Happy Friday, Apple IIe style ;-)
29 Jun, 2023 I am working on the VIC chip replacement project this morning. The color palette is tricky on VIC-20s. Spending a lot of time building resistor ladders with available values to try and get it closer. Why did I insist on this being composite out? VGA would be done by now.
28 Jun, 2023 I can do a real Rubik's cube in about 2 minutes, but this version takes me so much longer. Happy Wednesday! #commodore #vic20
27 Jun, 2023 This is the oldest one I’ve seen. It would need a lot of work.
26 Jun, 2023 The latest Ultimate II+ and Ultimate 64 firmware supports 128k cartridges. Naturally the first one I have to run through its paces is Snappy ;-) #commodore
26 Jun, 2023 It’s Monday morning and I realized I’ve not done 10PRINT on this AIM 65 clone yet. There, universe is no longer tilted.
23 Jun, 2023 What is it about calculations in columns on a monochrome screen like a Commodore PET that’s so appealing? I can’t put my finger on it, but it just makes me smile. Happy Friday!
21 Jun, 2023 Haven’t used my One Time Pad helper for the Commodore in a while. Broke it out tonight to work on performance improvements. Getting zippy.
19 Jun, 2023 Interesting… so I had to use an Intel Mac to build it, but it RUNS just fine on my M1 Mac. So there’s now a MacOS version of @HansOtten KIM-1 simulator now that’s caught up with the most current version. Not bad for a long lunch break side quest.
19 Jun, 2023 I've built @HansOtten 's KIM-1 Simulator for Mac (Intel... Atom doesn't work AT ALL). Now I need to figure out how to make a script into a .app file on Mac so he can distribute it.
19 Jun, 2023 Picking up where I left off on the VIC-20 6560/1 replacement project. It’s still working after having been in storage so that’s a good start.
18 Jun, 2023 My pocket chip still boots. This was a good project and I’m sad it didn’t make it in the long run.
17 Jun, 2023 Broke out my hash collider program on the Commodore 64 this morning. You know, science n stuff.
15 Jun, 2023 I just found out that Bob Applegate passed away on Tuesday. I only knew Bob through email exchanges, but he was wonderful to correspond with. I'm going to spend the next weeks with my KIM-1 Clone, in remembrance. Godspeed Bob.
15 Jun, 2023 This fanless laptop is just sooo satisfying.
14 Jun, 2023 Having a hard time finding anything interesting lately. I’m gonna put the 6502 cluster away and try something else.
12 Jun, 2023 One of my side quests this week is to thoroughly clean this guy and work a little on the video output. Then it'll be ready to write a novel on. Chicklet keys are so smooth for long typing sessions.
30 May, 2023 Julie is threatening to make a picture book titled “Where’s Michael?”
25 May, 2023 Hubble caught an Aurora Borealis on Saturn. Don’t forget to look up at night.
25 May, 2023 Assembly coder friends will appreciate this
25 May, 2023 You don't HAVE to "create a video for this."
24 May, 2023 Today’s lunchtime learn something new is sorting out all of the Rockwell AIM 65 monitor commands. The built in assembler is pretty good. Happy Wednesday!
23 May, 2023 I loved the poem by @K0FFY_Radio so much that I framed it and hung it in my office.
23 May, 2023 Finally found breadboard IDC connectors that actually stay in breadboards
22 May, 2023 I've loved fixing things as long as I can remember. Instead of a lunch break, I'm fixing two keyboards. Not just any keyboards, the BEST keyboards. Happy Monday!
22 May, 2023 Needed a quick second logic analyzer for a slow circuit. It’s a hack but it works :)
19 May, 2023 10 years ago today I witnessed a hit and run which resulted in an elderly couple being stuck in their car which caught fire. Manager at the restaurant across the street was pretty upset when I stole their fire extinguisher to put the fire out. I guess that Navy DC training stuck.
18 May, 2023 My "Complete Lance A. Leventhal" library is one more book closer to completion
17 May, 2023 When you get a new to me breadbin Commodore 64 (the best computer ever made) from @K0FFY_Radio you get dot matrix letters AND an unexpected software bonus. Woot!
17 May, 2023 Taking the printer interface on the AIM 65 clone for a test drive. A sine wave should do the trick
13 May, 2023 I don’t have diabetes, but I’m a health data nerd. For the next 14 days I’m wearing a Freestyle Libre CGM. They say it takes a bit be accurate. Let’s hope that’s true because compared to a finger prick meter (which is pretty accurate) it’s not even close.
12 May, 2023 I’m on the prowl for this book. Physical or scanned electronic. There’s a copy on Archive.org but it’s not downloadable. Check your attics and basements
11 May, 2023 Package arrived from Japan today. I’m super excited to be a small part of this project. AIM-65 clone for the win!
11 May, 2023 Writing mirrors thought. Outsourcing it to AI may sideline our cognitive engagement. I value AI's potential yet value intellectual growth for people. Use AI to help cure cancer (or MS), but do not stop thinking and creating. Also, quit being lazy; it makes you boring.
10 May, 2023 I found a tube with 8 old school 6551’s in it. I’m running the 6502 cluster nodes at 1.843Mhz so I needed the “AP” model which is what I have. Sooo much easier when you’re trying to multiplex 5 serial devices to not have that transmit bug and delay math in the newer model. Woot!
10 May, 2023 Pretty sure everyone has a serial tap these days
08 May, 2023 Ooooo nice, a 6551 without that nasty hardware bug. Fancy.
05 May, 2023 Still lots of work to do on the job scheduling and "worker node" software side for sure, but my 6502 Cubesat sized "cluster" is up and running on a VIC-20 controller node. Not a bad cap to the week. Happy Friday!
04 May, 2023 Iiiiittttt'ssss worrrrrkkkingggg. Iiiiittttt'ssss worrrrrkkkingggg.
03 May, 2023 Been having an intermittent problem with my Corsham SD board.
03 May, 2023 Been obsessed with James Nestor's book on Breath for the last week or so. Wanted to dive into learning Vue, so here's my simple Breathe app to reset my breath throughout the day.
02 May, 2023 Working with these great bi directional signal mux boards from @sparkfun today.
01 May, 2023 That’s the best packed and shipped old book I’ve bought in a long time. Bravo random eBay seller.
01 May, 2023 Nothing says “easy to read” like a VIC-20 serial program in 40 column mode connecting to a remote BASIC machine. I mean, it takes up almost 2/3 of the screen. Plenty of room ;-) I do have a Commodore 128 with a very good 80 column display, but who wants this stuff to be easy?
28 Apr, 2023 This is turning out even better than I hoped. Three 6502 cluster nodes and their serial multiplexer are now hardware complete + tested on their Commodore 64 controller. Hard part is next: writing software. Is VERY close to cubesat sized so now my brain is whirling about that idea
28 Apr, 2023 I’ve had a working “world’s worst paper tape reader” for a year now. Where does the time go?
27 Apr, 2023 Moving my serial multiplexer hack to a more permanent ish setup. I really dig these gold and black proto boards.
27 Apr, 2023 I want to stack my 6502 cluster nodes to save space. They have standard motherboard mounting holes on all four corners. Thoughts on how to mount them about 5cm apart 3 to 5 boards high? It’s for science so….
26 Apr, 2023 Sometimes the best debugging tool is to just print the values. Found it.
26 Apr, 2023 Who has a primer on sizing pull up and pull down resistors? These work but I just guessed.
25 Apr, 2023 Sticking to first principles wherever I can. Moved my serial multiplexer prototype over to the Corsham KIM-1 clone. Working great and ready to be moved to a more permanent proto board. Maybe someday I’ll learn KiCAD and get this fabbed for realz. 6502 cluster 1 day closer!
25 Apr, 2023 My current build project is getting a little out of control. I’m gonna need a bigger house.
24 Apr, 2023 Everyone but me at my company is at RSA in San Francisco. I was invited but declined. For reasons :)
21 Apr, 2023 Flash, insert, test, remove, and reflash are time-consuming. I picked up this ROM emulator to shorten that test cycle on the 6502 Cluster nodes, probably 10x. Less than a week (probably) from having the whole cluster setup first run. Happy Friday!
20 Apr, 2023 All three 6502 cluster nodes are assembled and tested. Next up is to mount them on something and then devise a way of connecting them together and to a control mode (leaning Commodore 64 for that). Then we can calculate all the things.
19 Apr, 2023 Got all three of these boards, two 6502 single board computers (blue)and a bazillion pin FPGA (green) all set up to be soldered on the bottom here. I’m counting 712 pins to solder this evening.
19 Apr, 2023 Post workout / pre day job shenanigans. More Commodore RS-232 work. Happy Wednesday!
18 Apr, 2023 Shout out to @HansOtten for pointing me in the right direction to get the 68b50 ACIA sorted out on my Corsham KIM-1 clone. The retro community is awesome. Actually could be an interesting choice for the Control Node on my 6502 cluster system. Hmm…
18 Apr, 2023 It’s tax day in the US. One of my least favorite things on earth. Using paper forms and public school handwriting for said forms feels right. For reasons.
15 Apr, 2023 Weeding this evening and had to get the long weed puller from the garage. If you’re not familiar, that’s Poison Sumac. Makes Poison Ivy/Oak seem tame. I would not recommend using the leaves as a facial cleanser.
14 Apr, 2023 Some people relax on Friday by drinking or streaming shows, etc.
14 Apr, 2023 Got EhBASIC ported to the second half of the ROM (it’s on a switch). First 6502 cluster node is now complete. Time to build the other two. Happy Friday!
13 Apr, 2023 Got UART working on the first try on a 6502 Compute Cluster Node. No OS, these just run straight machine code. Might make up for yesterday's snafu. Maybe ;-) Happy Thursday!
12 Apr, 2023 You ever spend several hours trying to connect a VIC-20 to multiple serial terminals (troubleshooting) before you realize that the null modem connector isn’t… you know… connected between them? No, just me? Alright then.
12 Apr, 2023 Finally picked up a physical copy of this book. I had it in the 80s, but who knows where that copy ended up. I have the wrong computer on my desk today though :)
10 Apr, 2023 First of my 6502 cluster nodes is online. Occurred to me that I need to decide which Commodore model will be the control nodes for these little guys.
09 Apr, 2023 It was hard to get a FlipperZero in the US for a while. Mine just arrived. Time to hack all the things ;)
04 Apr, 2023 Writing a "serious" Django app for a security suite I'm working on.
03 Apr, 2023 I don’t need the LED matrix built into this FPGA board but I might as well have some fun with it.
02 Apr, 2023 It’s apparently the spring where my chainsaw gets a workout every weekend.
01 Apr, 2023 Super fun thrift store find. Even has route maps. Neato.
01 Apr, 2023 Had to steal this one. Seriously, learn how stuff works.
30 Mar, 2023 1 Megahertz crystals and the best crystals
28 Mar, 2023 Pre ordered this January 3rd and it was released today. Time to sharpen the pencil and take notes.
27 Mar, 2023 Changing it up on my desk this week. Going nifty clones of 70s computers for a change of pace.
25 Mar, 2023 Goose eggs
24 Mar, 2023 Our yellow oysters are ready already. This growing your own food is neato.
23 Mar, 2023 Quitting
22 Mar, 2023 Using my super scientific method of just placing parts on the PCB to inventory I see that I have enough of the expensive parts to build 3 nodes of my 6502 cluster to start. Happy Wednesday!
21 Mar, 2023 Always impressed by Mouser’s packing of sensitive components.
20 Mar, 2023 Vintage computer commercial for today
19 Mar, 2023 Brush clearing day 2. Colorful PPE gives my location away.
19 Mar, 2023 Finally. A cheap and small FPGA dev board with more than enough easy to access IO pins. Open source tool chain is a must for me. I’m gonna need a few more of these ;)
18 Mar, 2023 Interesting read this morning
16 Mar, 2023 Out of all of the dystopian futures in Science Fiction, it's disappointing that the most accurate one was Wall-E.
16 Mar, 2023 I bought a single 2SC1959 transistor and don’t remember why. Extra weird because I keep pretty good notes about my 57 ongoing projects. Hmm
16 Mar, 2023 Not by AI
16 Mar, 2023 8 bit clusters
15 Mar, 2023 Current Mood
15 Mar, 2023 Ahh, that's better. The correct position of this toggle for this guy is off. I'll do my own summaries thank you.
15 Mar, 2023 Several more modern “advanced” calculators are controversial
14 Mar, 2023 Driving clocks with FPGAs
14 Mar, 2023 Happy Pi Day! Another year of 6502 machines verifying the digits. #commodore
13 Mar, 2023 New to me TI-92. I did not realize just how huge these things are.
12 Mar, 2023 Just looking over the Minnesota fishing regulations. I feel like I've missed a memo.
10 Mar, 2023 If I view this Commodore PET picture on a C64, does that break the space-time continuum? The picture itself represents the very moment computing peaked. Long slide into mediocre since then. Happy Friday!
09 Mar, 2023 Canadian Bacon
08 Mar, 2023 The PET Diagnostic boards designed by Sven Peterson arrived and I just realized I have the BOM loaded in a shopping cart but never actually pressed “submit order”. This is what happens when you have too many simultaneous projects.
07 Mar, 2023 Back in the saddle on the VIC chip replacement. Today I’m implementing the internal registers. Nice (but slow) progress. I’ve decided not to bother with implementing interlacing on the first version. #commodore #vic20 #vicsrevenge
06 Mar, 2023 Everyone prints their MOS component datasheets and binds them right?
05 Mar, 2023 My arms might work again on Tuesday.
04 Mar, 2023 Anyone else have several VIC-20s with test clips more or less permanently attached? No? Just me. Okay then.
03 Mar, 2023 Happy Friday. Time for some Blinkenlights! Here's a couple of LED patterns on the VIC-20 and PAL-1 (KIM-1) clone.
28 Feb, 2023 VIC Chip "drop in" replacement work this evening and got distracted. Why make a simple drawing in your notebook when you can have a VIC-20 do it? Back off, man; I'm a scientist.
28 Feb, 2023 Finally got around to assembling the PAL-1 gadgets. Can an office have TOO MANY blinkenlights? I don’t think so. Might use this with my “worlds worst paper tape reader” setup.
28 Feb, 2023 Happy Tuesday. You don’t have to be angry on the internet today. Just do cool stuff and share it. Repeat.
27 Feb, 2023 This has gotten a little out of hand.
24 Feb, 2023 I've had the Numworks calculator for a couple years now. I find myself reaching for it more often lately. The base conversions are easy to access, and it sure is fast.
21 Feb, 2023 A coworker had this GIANT flag made for me. So great.
17 Feb, 2023 I need to wait to do the final touches until Oscar sends me the correct LED bracket but it went together nicely. Happy Friday !
16 Feb, 2023 Getting back to my drop in VIC 6560/1 replacement for the VIC-20. Broke out the big guns textbook to get my mind back in the right space. #vicsrevenge #commodore
15 Feb, 2023 Whelp I was going to assemble my PiDP-8 but it looks like the wrong LED bracket was included. That’s the PDP-11 light layout. Whoopsie. I can get the rest of it up and running, but won’t be able to complete the assembly without it.
13 Feb, 2023 Asked over the weekend what the most difficult thing I've done in Assembly was. SHA-256 isn't the longest program I've done, but it was the most difficult to date. It's pretty fast which makes it extra neato to me. #commodore
11 Feb, 2023 Had an altercation with a deer a few weeks ago. Took the opportunity to do a little customization on the front end of my truck. Basic dude stuff.
10 Feb, 2023 Gotta wait for random numbers
10 Feb, 2023 Valentine thinks Commodore is pretty rad.
08 Feb, 2023 I made a gallon of sauerkraut for 79 cents (that’s a quart jar next to it with granola in it). Add this to the long list of things I don’t buy at the store any more.
08 Feb, 2023 Recycled Crap
07 Feb, 2023 So... I find myself in need of a PDP-8 simulator/emulator. Uncharted territory for me, but it's for science so...
07 Feb, 2023 This week’s nonfiction books. On track to read 75 books this year.
06 Feb, 2023 Thinking about starting a new podcast. Might as do some dry run recordings to work out topics and format. Happy Monday.
05 Feb, 2023 I have one of the few Snappy prototype carts in the wild. Doing the ROM upgrade today (it’s 128k) so it’ll be Turbo Macro Pro, REU and enhanced Super Snapshot happy time in my office this week. #commodore
05 Feb, 2023 Building railings on my Dad’s lower deck today.
03 Feb, 2023 I was looking for a ribbon cable after my morning workout and found a shortwave radio I don’t remember acquiring. It’s neat but they sure looked cooler in the 70s.
02 Feb, 2023 Can you imagine having resources like this for modern computers? Nothing even close exists. #commodore
02 Feb, 2023 Thursday
01 Feb, 2023 Breaking down someone else’s old assembly code that I converted into Turbo Macro Pro format. Surely I’m not the only person who would rather reverse engineer assembly by printing it out right? #commodore #6502forever
01 Feb, 2023 Walking among dinosaurs
01 Feb, 2023 These Schmidt refills fit my favorite pens. Happy Wednesday
31 Jan, 2023 Converting my favorite Maze program from Machine Language to Turbo Macro Pro. Wouldn't be complete without a machine code vs BASIC speed comparison. You know, for science. Article on how this one works by the weekend. Probably. #commodore
31 Jan, 2023 Opportunities
30 Jan, 2023 Monday thought on mini celebrities
30 Jan, 2023 Converting a handful of servers this morning from Ubuntu to Debian. 18+ years and I've had enough.
29 Jan, 2023 This is a common practice for @FedEx around here. I’ve been on my driveway for the last 90 minutes so this reason is completely made up. You know hat would be better (besides actually delivering)? The truth. Poor form FedEx.
28 Jan, 2023 Excellent read.
27 Jan, 2023 Thinking about how I want to connect this Simple I/O board to my PAL-1 (KIM-1 clone). 18 pin IDC cable might be the cleanest and most flexible option. #commodore #deepthoughtswithmichael
26 Jan, 2023 On today's episode of "learn something every day," I did an LFSR on an IceStick FPGA. Pretty straightforward. Tomorrow I'll do an LCG and put them together to get a terrible Pseudo Random Number Generator. You know, for science.
25 Jan, 2023 Yes, if you know my password, please forget it. On a "security" company website. Sheesh.
24 Jan, 2023 Gotta prep for a webinar. Sanity is important.
23 Jan, 2023 Young person I'm mentoring in math and computers wants to learn how mazes work. Printing values on a simple program on a slow computer is by far the best way to explain this. He got it immediately, plus it's a cool visual. Happy Monday! #commodore
21 Jan, 2023 That last bolt
20 Jan, 2023 It’s difficult to understate how much better the left one is over the right one. The VIC-20 guide launched me on a career path and a lifelong love of learning. Crazy how the right book at the right time can steer someone. I was 6 in 1981. #commodore
20 Jan, 2023 Still have an eBay search going for season 2.
19 Jan, 2023 I have a number of C64s but only one is PAL. Happens to be a 64C. Gonna keep this one on my desk for the next week or so. For science. #commodore
17 Jan, 2023 How do I get into programming?
17 Jan, 2023 I’ve been wearing an Oura ring for 3 or 4 years now. This is the highest sleep score I’ve ever gotten.
15 Jan, 2023 We moved in 1981, so I can pretty confidently put this in 1980 based on the furniture and room. My Dad got it as a gift, but it had a much bigger impact on me than him.
15 Jan, 2023 Okay 80s fans, anyone else as obsessed with Robo Force as I was in 1984? I really should not be allowed on eBay…
14 Jan, 2023 Always had these memories of a space plane I had as a kid, but I could not remember what it was called. Today I found a picture of the Christmas unopened it and a clear shot of the box. I’m not going to look on eBay. Nope, not this guy.
13 Jan, 2023 Solving problems for fun with 3583 bytes of memory has made me dramatically better at my day job. Embrace constraints.
13 Jan, 2023 Solving problems for fun with 3583 bytes of memory has made me dramatically better at my day job. Embrace constraints.
13 Jan, 2023 Really loving Pocketbase for my personal database. The Python library is a little behind, so I forked it and updated it to bring it current with the new API syntax. Now to import the last 15 years of finsihed books from a CSV file :)
12 Jan, 2023 I’m about to let some air out of this sealed package from the 90s. Should I play Nirvana or something while I do it?
12 Jan, 2023 Took me an hour this morning to troubleshoot my Corsham board. Turns out the ribbon cable was bad. All better now.
06 Jan, 2023 Move over iPhone. My new (in the box) planner even has a dedicated secret button. It’s where I’ll keep all of my passwords from now on and it’ll still be more secure than LastPass :)
05 Jan, 2023 Our neighbor’s ducks are laying eggs faster than she can eat them. This is a good thing for us :)
04 Jan, 2023 I try to spend a month with a particular retro computer at a time. January 2023 is the Corsham KIM-1 clone.
02 Jan, 2023 Bo dee do we. Boop beep. Somehow this has survived in my possession for 43 (ish) years and even works.
31 Dec, 2022 Still on the prowl for an HP-16C. My replica is cool. Similar in size and it does feel solid thanks to the aluminum construction, but nothing beats the key feel in the voyager series.
29 Dec, 2022 Stays crunchy in milk
29 Dec, 2022 More Atari VCS/2600 programming fun this week. Hats off to the folks who made decent games with 128 bytes of RAM.
27 Dec, 2022 For no particular reason I've been learning Atari VCS/2600 Assembly this week. It is pretty challenging with no built in fonts and it makes the 3583 Bytes in a VIC-20 seem like a luxury. Anyway, counting up a score was satisfying.
24 Dec, 2022 I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever made it through this whole show. Ever.
22 Dec, 2022 Many of us in North America should maybe embrace this opportunity:)
21 Dec, 2022 Off of work for a while now. I relax by studying and/or outdoor activities. As the temps are plummeting in the US this week, going to be more study than outdoors. On my current list are these two gems.
19 Dec, 2022 Figured I should take a stab at #VCCC2022 this week. I've got the algorithm I want, now to rewrite in Assembly and shrink it ;-) Happy Monday! #commodore
17 Dec, 2022 Wim Hof
15 Dec, 2022 Put a 128 motherboard and PET next to it so we can appreciate how big this 6510 die shot is on my wall. Amazing.
14 Dec, 2022 Lunch break shenanigans… first time I’ve ever done this in under 3 mins.
14 Dec, 2022 I can't overstate how great this is as a distraction-resistant writing device.
13 Dec, 2022 Still working on iOS animations before the day job starts. This morning's project was pretty fun.
13 Dec, 2022 10 PRINT is cool, but there are soooo many 1 liner possibilities. Need to try this on the VIC-20 next. #commodore
12 Dec, 2022 I should have just used my front porch as a tree stand
11 Dec, 2022 Time to cartridge ROM dump following along with an @8BitShowAndTell video. You know, for science
08 Dec, 2022 I was very lucky to get a 6502 high resolution die shot print from Siliconinsid
08 Dec, 2022 I love that HP still makes the 12C. I never have one out of arms reach. 41 years and running and the CPU is very 6502ish. Make RPN great again.
06 Dec, 2022 I did #AdventOfCode Day 6 on a #commodore VIC-20 today just for a change of pace. Pretty fun.
05 Dec, 2022 Commodore PET 2001 #AdventOfCode Day 5 sorting crates and stacks.
04 Dec, 2022 I spent WAAAY too long today figuring out #AdventOfCode Day 4 on the Commodore 64, but it works. Took me 10 minutes to write my solution in Julia this morning and 3 hours this evening to write it for the #commodore. Probably can't spend that kinda time on work days, though. Fun!
03 Dec, 2022 Got a Coco1 from @K0FFY_Radio today including some other goodies. Doing the ol route the RF through a VCR trick to get that soothing toxic green screen. This is now in the running for the worst computer in my collection and I couldn’t be happier about it.
03 Dec, 2022 I did #AdventOfCode Day 3 in @julialanguage because it's Saturday and I needed to knock it out quickly. If I have time this evening, I'll try it on a retro computer.
02 Dec, 2022 In December, I am adding SwiftUI to my skillset. Not bad for a first pre breakfast session.
02 Dec, 2022 These are a few of my favorite things…Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashesSnowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes… Happy Friday!
01 Dec, 2022 Alright, part 2 of #AdventOfCode Day 1 went to my Commodore PET 2001. Only took 58 seconds to do it, including reading the 2200+ data points from a floppy disk #commodore
01 Dec, 2022 Been asked several times today if #AdventOfCode2022 is possible on vintage computers. The answer is "some of it". Today's was doable. Takes a minute to read 2200+ inputs from a floppy, but it worked. #commodore
01 Dec, 2022 Well @8BitShowAndTell made me get the paddles out for a deep dive Ultimax cartridge/LeMans Patreon exclusive. Don’t tell anyone I’m using my #Atari paddles on a #commodore though okay?
01 Dec, 2022 Well, #AdventOfCode2022 is off to a good start. I'm using @JuliaLanguage this year, and I realize I'm not nearly as good at Julia as I thought. The month's challenges will be hard, and that's great.
30 Nov, 2022 We have two Christmas trees, so naturally there are two trains.
28 Nov, 2022 It’s that time of year. My kids are grown but trains have schedules to keep.
28 Nov, 2022 I have 3 Raspberry Pi 4s that are being used for tasks like FPGA development. They are unobtainium these days but I do have 8 Raspberry Pi 3s. Any fun uses for these you can think of? Putting Homeassistant on 1 so that leaves 7 left. Happy Monday!
27 Nov, 2022 Can’t say I didn’t get my money’s worth out of this thing. Waaaay better than modern phones.
22 Nov, 2022 A year ago I got suspended from Twitter for posting this video because the post had the word “snowflake” in it. Ahh, the memories #commodore
22 Nov, 2022 My favorite album this year is by@lukhash. Bought the CD last December, but the vinyl was sold out. New pressing was announced and ordered on Jan 28. Supplier screwed up many times. Those with patience finally received this gorgeous record this week #Commodore game is on side 2
21 Nov, 2022 Did @somacdivad's weekly code challenge in BASIC this week. Because, uh, science or something. It's a “peculiar English dialect in which the numbers of letters in successive words follow the digits of the number π.” Pretty fun. #commodore
20 Nov, 2022 Does your holiday travel go bag have the proper emergency supplies? Mine does. #Nintendo
19 Nov, 2022 Knot untangler
19 Nov, 2022 Nice, new Floppy Emu firmware has graphics now. #appleiie
19 Nov, 2022 Working on a code challenge from @shieladixon. Part 1 is total permutations 1 to 9 as fast as I can manage on a #Commodore. Here's an NTSC C64 doing it without printing in 48 seconds. Part 2 is a little harder, have to give it a think.
18 Nov, 2022 A little silliness while waiting for backups to finish. Happy Friday! #commodore
17 Nov, 2022 Christmas tree farm day. You know the day when the animals wonder why we’re bring a tree into the house. Crazy hoomans.
16 Nov, 2022 I get asked a lot about how to do the “off screen” images on the SwissMicros calculators. The short short version is crop your photo to 400x240 and run this little Python. Then just copy it over usb to the offimg folder.
16 Nov, 2022 I need to pay attention to details more. I meant to buy 10 SN74LVC245A’s and bought 100. If you need me, I’ll be looking around the shop for a couple dozen more things to level shift :)
14 Nov, 2022 Everyone uses @JuliaLanguage to create data statement sets to do calculations on vintage BASIC machines right? I can’t think of a better use for modern computers than the assist for their elders. Happy Monday!
14 Nov, 2022 I forgot that I DO have one calculator that can do very large exponents. But calling it a calculator is kinda a stretch. More like an ARM computer running python in a calculator costume. Still a fun device, though.
14 Nov, 2022 This morning’s #NaNoWriMo22 word count was at 5 am on my Electra 120.
13 Nov, 2022 Family game night tonight is @theRealKiyosaki ‘s Cashflow game. Who knew doing finances could be such fun?
12 Nov, 2022 Finally decided on the upgrade to my iPhone 11.
11 Nov, 2022 I am success! Now to make this WAY faster. But still, pretty neato. Can do up to 2^847 before we overflow in this iteration. Stretch goal is 2^5000, but getting there. #commodore
11 Nov, 2022 In the age of endless selfies and pictures of our food, it's weird to think that I spent 6 years in the Navy and have maybe 6 pictures from that time. Happy Veterans Day to all Veterans and the families that tirelessly supported them.
10 Nov, 2022 ALL computer books should be spiral bound. Cookbooks too.
09 Nov, 2022 Back to some video generation with FPGAs this evening. VGA instead of composite this time.
09 Nov, 2022 Not sure why it never occurred to me to try my favorite retro demo program on an 80 column PET. Universe wrong now righted. Happy Wednesday! #commodore #PET #retrocomputing
07 Nov, 2022 Just making sure I remember where the overflow is. Back off man, I’m a scientist. #commodore
06 Nov, 2022 I stumbled into @JuliaLanguage in January. Spent this year being in love. Last night a young man I tutor asked “what does 2 to the 5000 actually look like?” Julia makes this crazy easy. And @8BitShowAndTell has me thinking I need to do this on a #commodore now
05 Nov, 2022 Unopened Palm V charger needs to be opened. Got Palm devices to charge!
04 Nov, 2022 When I fly a retractable gear plane, I check that my gear is down at least 3 times. At the final approach fix, at IFR mins (even on a clear day) and once across the runway threshold. Those that fly with me often know my routine. I wont end up like this poor guy. Hopefully.
03 Nov, 2022 Mobile computing peaked with this model. Everything after it is a productivity suck. Both of these beauties are getting battery replacements this evening.
01 Nov, 2022 Most aspects of life were better before smart phones and always on internet. Something I’m reflecting on as November begins.
31 Oct, 2022 Distraction resistant #nanowrimo2022 system ready to rock.
28 Oct, 2022 One more possible writing platform for #NaNoWriMo is a KIM-1 clone. Have to memorize the hex codes for ASCII characters. 45,000 words at 4 words a minute in hexadecimal is… 187 hours just to “type” it. Extra credit: decode this. Happy Friday! #commodore
27 Oct, 2022 Kivy-ios certificate errors fix
25 Oct, 2022 A little lunchtime fun. Here's a little program to examine characters from the character rom by location. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/commodore?src=hashtag_click">#commodore</a>
22 Oct, 2022 It’s apparently Global Encryption Day. I’ve done quite a few ciphers on old computers, including SHA-256 in assembly (5 whole hashes per second). I really prefer encryption that can be done by hand. One time pads and the VIC cipher for example. Happy Saturday! #commodore
21 Oct, 2022 My PET it always in the background on video calls, so I started using @8BitShowAndTell ‘s scroller to send subliminal messages. Happy Friday! #commodore
21 Oct, 2022 This crap is why I started using Linux almost 30 years ago. Ads in my terminal window are my new least favorite thing. Poor form @Canonical, be better.
20 Oct, 2022 I often intentionally spend a week with a particular 8-Bit machine at a time. This week is my nicely yellowed 128, a computer I desperately wanted to replace my beloved C64 when it came out. Still, a delight to use. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/commodore?src=hashtag_click">#commodore</a>
17 Oct, 2022 A post over the weekend by @8BitShowAndTell has me thinking about how to do 10 PRINT on a PC-4. No backslash, hmm
14 Oct, 2022 MiniPet works pretty well on my 9 inch PET CRT. Now I'm working on a way to have both the original board and the MiniPET in the case at the same time. Everyone dual boots their PET these days right? Happy Friday! #commodore #10print
12 Oct, 2022 Stuck in the weeds on a couple things right now so I broke out a project from last year that I left hanging. Progress on Enigma in ML on the #c64 got my brain unstuck. #commodore
12 Oct, 2022 My submission to David Amos' Code challenge yesterday
10 Oct, 2022 I don’t know who at Commodore in 1979 thought that riveting voltage regulators on was a good idea, but I’m grateful for all of the rivet work I’ve done on airplanes. Could be really intimidating if you’ve never drilled rivets before. Repairing a Twitter friends PET this evening.
10 Oct, 2022 Starting to think about National Novel Writing Month. If I use a VIC-20 for it and a tape deck, my working title for the novel could be "Self-Inflicted Pain." Would be fun to try. I'm reasonably sure it'll be the Apple II this year, though. #appleII #commodore #nanowrimo2022
08 Oct, 2022 Well that's pretty fun. I'll have to think about some 320x200 source images that will render really well at 40x25ish ;-) #commodore
08 Oct, 2022 I spend a ton of time on video calls these days. My tiny profile in a call has a PET in the shot, and the number of conversations this starts is wonderful. #commodore
06 Oct, 2022 Sorta listening on a conference call I'm not sure I need to be on. How about studying some code to do 32 C64 sprites? I think I will thank you. Happy Thursday! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/commodore?src=hashtag_click">#commodore</a>
03 Oct, 2022 Success. This “untested” PET 2001-8N is now back in service. The whole thing was filthy and had some corrosion. Every keyboard plunger needed Cailkote and it had two bad linear regulators. Fairly easy repair. Happy Monday! #commodore #PET
02 Oct, 2022 Started with zero keys working and this morning every key works flawlessly. #commodore #PET
01 Oct, 2022 My phone learned a new trick.
30 Sep, 2022 Took me a long time to find a decent hard cover copy of this book. Fascinating story. Edwin Layton was quite the guy.
30 Sep, 2022 Not a single key on this PET keyboard worked so they are getting the full treatment. Be good as new after the 24 hour drying period for the conductive coating. Gave everything a bath while I wait. #commodore
30 Sep, 2022 My very reliable PET keyboard tester
29 Sep, 2022 Looking much better after a distilled water bath. Tomorrow I’ll sort out the lack of 5V power on the board. For now, we dry. #commodore #PET
29 Sep, 2022 Do WAAAYY more with less
29 Sep, 2022 Best writing tool ever made
29 Sep, 2022 Just a little silly randomness to brighten up my Thursday morning. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/commodore?src=hashtag_click">#commodore</a>
28 Sep, 2022 Someone needs a bath. #commodore
27 Sep, 2022 New to me PET 2001 and it doesn’t work. Makes me a happy camper. #commodore
26 Sep, 2022 Ever go looking through your stuff looking for a Tandy Cassette Deck and find something you have no memory procuring? Apparently I have a Pinebook. Huh.
26 Sep, 2022 Love my Romulator. I need maybe 3 more of them. Maybe 4. #6502
26 Sep, 2022 This week's nonfiction read. Quite good.
21 Sep, 2022 For the next couple days, there's a humble bundle of 21 Linux books by No Starch
20 Sep, 2022 Visualizing concepts
19 Sep, 2022 One can’t really have too many Verilog Books.
18 Sep, 2022 20 year old life coaches
17 Sep, 2022 The best computer hacking tutorial ever made.
16 Sep, 2022 Happy Friday from peak computing. #commodore #VIC20
14 Sep, 2022 My ideal cyberdeck
13 Sep, 2022 I don’t understand the TV in the bathroom at restaurants thing but I’m at a taco place on Florida that has one. Princess Leia watching you pee is unsettling.
13 Sep, 2022 Long tree searches on a Commodore 128. Some things are better explained and learned on older hardware. Easier to see what’s happening and feels less like magic.
12 Sep, 2022 Traveling to Orlando this week for work. Want to be in the right mindset for the rest of 2022, so this new book is my theme for the week.
11 Sep, 2022 I sold my airplane project and I feel really good about it. An enthusiastic guy outside of Charlotte bought it. I don’t subscribe to the “you must finish a book because you started it” type philosophy.
10 Sep, 2022 Workout done before 6am, so might as well move to some light reading. Much of this book I practice every day already, but getting the basics right is always a good plan.
09 Sep, 2022 I suppose it IS #septandy so I can spend 15 minutes this year with my Coco 2. Soon it’ll be #victober and all will be right with the world. Until then….
08 Sep, 2022 It’s September, time for the annual reading of my second favorite book
07 Sep, 2022 Why would they take a clean, natural, healthy food and turn it into an artificially flavored bastardization?
07 Sep, 2022 Everyone doesn't teach CIDR notation with a C64? No? I'm the only one? Okay. #commodore
07 Sep, 2022 Have you seen XX show?
31 Aug, 2022 A month not tracked
30 Aug, 2022 I’ve been using a modified version of Ryan Holiday’s notecard system for a week and it’s already transformative. Analog for the win.
30 Aug, 2022 Details matter
30 Aug, 2022 This book has Verilog and VHDL side by side in the examples. Super helpful. #fpga
29 Aug, 2022 Been a while since of my episodes of “stupid races between old computery things“
29 Aug, 2022 Haven’t read this one in a while. Oldie but goodie.
28 Aug, 2022 Sometimes the Sunday project chooses you. New water heater since the old one tried to flood the basement. Basic dude stuff.
27 Aug, 2022 Idle time and compound interest
26 Aug, 2022 This game came pretty late in Commodore 64 history, but I'll never forget the look on my younger brother's face when he first saw it. And yes, the gameplay is still really awkward with a lack of mouse on the 64. Happy Friday!
25 Aug, 2022 My planner was super boring. Fixed.
25 Aug, 2022 I just looked at a calendar... it's almost <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/septandy">#septandy</a>. I don't know if I can do it.
21 Aug, 2022 We collect many old cookbooks. This gem from 1942 has a wartime supplement section and tips on a healthy weight. Example, a 5’8” thirty year old man should not be more than 154 pounds. Also sections for things like box lunches for “hard workers” and “a business girl”. Fun read.
19 Aug, 2022 Breaking in a C64 repair I did for a local friend with my favorite 8 Bit Maze generator. This one never gets old. Happy Friday! #commodore
18 Aug, 2022 25 whole cents. AND this is better than ANYTHING on “tv” in 2022 by a long shot.
18 Aug, 2022 The peak
18 Aug, 2022 Just in case this game wasn't hard enough... try it on a Commodore with a single button joystick. Decrunching to the REU is a nice add on :-) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/commodore?src=hashtag_click">#commodore</a>
12 Aug, 2022 Adding the Genie framework to my @JuliaLanguage toolkit. The OscarsExplorer example is pretty neat.
11 Aug, 2022 Everyone has 3 keyboards on their #Commodore PET clone right? No? Just me? Okay then. #WoodPET build
10 Aug, 2022 Multiple Dispatch is kinda @JuliaLanguage 's super power. Never really grokked it until I followed this example. Mind explodey.
09 Aug, 2022 Pretty happy with the way this turned out. 5 coats of acrylic should hold the vinyl on the keycap labels. A PET with Cherry Black switches is a PET you could even write a novel on :) #commodore
08 Aug, 2022 Well this is tedious
08 Aug, 2022 Super underrated game
06 Aug, 2022 My arms are bendy
05 Aug, 2022 As a long time Commodore guy, I've under appreciated the Apple 8Bit computers. Really quite amazing for the early 80s. This took just over 3 hours. Happy Friday!
04 Aug, 2022 Still testing the timing with the W65C02S-14 running on this VIC-20. Super expander cart seems to be fine and it can do math well enough. 90 minutes to complete this isn't bad for 1981. #commodore
04 Aug, 2022 Giving the Julia Language another go for a new project. Lot's to love about it...
03 Aug, 2022 The VIC-20 palette voltages are kinda tricky. For this alpha version of the project I’m just going to have to be okay with this particular background blue for now. Funny, if you pick up 470 ohm resistors out of the box instead of 270 how much trouble you can make :) #commodore
03 Aug, 2022 Probably only funny to me… I was working out some resistor ladders for the VIC replacement project and got two values wrong. Think anyone would mind #commodore 64 colors on their VIC-20? Happy Wednesday!
03 Aug, 2022 I wonder if there's any value in writing a VIC chip and 6502 protocol decoder. Hmmm #commodore
02 Aug, 2022 New stretch goal: get the most accurate pixel timings on VIC-20s possible with equipment I already have. We'll have to resort to... dun dun dun... math! #commodore
02 Aug, 2022 Before day job two steps back on the VIC replacement project: since PAL was progressing nicely I switched to NTSC to catch up but broke something along the way. Hmm… that isn’t right AT ALL #commodore
31 Jul, 2022 I’ve always wanted an original Commodore PET 2001, but they are now crazy expensive. What’s a guy to do? I’ll just make one :)
31 Jul, 2022 Today marks the first time in history that a human has managed to wrestle a tent back into the bag they sell them in. Rainy day garage projects…
30 Jul, 2022 This might be my favorite thrift store find to date. And it’s fully working. We will add all the things.
29 Jul, 2022 No one is ever going to accuse me of being good at surface mount soldering. But they are at least on and it works :) #commodore
29 Jul, 2022 My all time favorite book is $1 at the thrift store. Never mind I already own like 7 copies…
26 Jul, 2022 I'm still SUPER tempted to use VGA instead of composite for the VIC-20 VIC replacement. Much of this is known but in multiple places. Probably will make a dedicated page for all of the calculations I do for myself. If others can use it, then cool. #commodore
26 Jul, 2022 Replaced the 65c02s adapter on the Vicky Twenty with @shieladixon’s board of who was very kind to send me a couple from the UK with a nice note and postcard. Not using a transceiver seems to be working fine on this board and definitely takes up less space. #commodore
25 Jul, 2022 Fixing a friend’s VIC-20 and I hastily assembled a character ROM adapter. I then spent an embarrassing number of Mississippi’s wondering why it didn’t work. Details Michael, details. #commodore
22 Jul, 2022 Good grief, these are still waaayyy too long. I’m gonna have to break down and buy an IDC cable connector crimper. Until then, let’s get the VIC-20 memory map more organized in my Verilog shall we? #commodore
21 Jul, 2022 Back on the VIC chip FPGA replacement this evening after a needed break. Having to level shift both directions between the VIC-20(5V) and the FPGA(3.3V) is a recipe for a crazy breadboard mess. Working on tidying it up. Looking better already.#vicsrevenge #commodore
21 Jul, 2022 Happy Thursday! #commodore
20 Jul, 2022 This is what I settled on for the @TexElecUSA #commodore PET keyboard arrangement using ANSI 104 keycaps. Now I need to get stickers printed but I’m very happy with the way this is turning out. Went with Cherry MX blacks on this one.
20 Jul, 2022 Today’s side quest: take these 208 ANSI keycaps and come up with a reasonable arrangement for my #commodore PET replica keyboard. Should be interesting.
18 Jul, 2022 Not terrible for an inexpensive signal generator.
17 Jul, 2022 14 pounds (not a typo) of the last of the local Mangalitsa we bought over the winter is spending all day on my ancient, beat up, hand me down smoker. It’s a hard knock life. :)
15 Jul, 2022 This afternoon’s festivities include soldering $60 worth of Cherry switches #commodore
14 Jul, 2022 More CPU testing. The 65c02s with the transceiver is consistently slower. Gonna have to break out the scope and look carefully at timing and propagation delays. Same machine, same code, different CPU setups. #commodore
14 Jul, 2022 Had my romulator for about a year. Unfortunately came pre assembled with square header pins which are VERY hard on sockets. Anyone have any adapter ideas for square headers? Can’t get them off without removing the cpu socket so I’m reluctant to desolder 80 pins if I can help it
14 Jul, 2022 Fun with strings anyone? Making and breaking codes Part 14 - VIC Cipher on the unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. Who needs more than 3583 Bytes of Memory? Not this guy. #commodore
13 Jul, 2022 Alrighty this VIC-20 is now running a brand new WDC65C02S manufactured recently thanks to the @AtticThe adapter. Now the only part left without an easy to source or modern replacement is the VIC chip. I did hear some nutball is making a replacement for that though. #commodore
13 Jul, 2022 Took me a minute to figure out what these are. There’s a 100 foot section of my daily walk lined by Rugosa roses. Sometimes called potato roses. Can’t wait to see what they look like when they bloom.
13 Jul, 2022 Been using these in one form or another for 40+ years and still not remotely tired of them.
12 Jul, 2022 Tough choice this evening. Both worth the time.
11 Jul, 2022 RGB green for the win! The real reason for the RGBtoHDMI purchase is for my MiniPET case build. Currently code named WoodPET. Coming soon to theaters near you. Er, my office. One of those. #commodore
11 Jul, 2022 I have tried about a half dozen solutions to get reasonable color 80 columns out of my flat Commodore 128. The RGBtoHDMI is hands down the winner here. #commodore
10 Jul, 2022 Most asked question of the drop in VIC chip replacement is: when will I be able to buy it. The trick is that I would be TERRIBLE at supporting a “consumer” product. Apparently “I find you too annoying to answer this question” is not a good tech support response. #commodore
08 Jul, 2022 Friday VIC chip replacement progress: this is an NTSC VIC-20 without a VIC chip (or internal clock) running as PAL off of the FPGA (clocks and video)outputting composite correctly. No RAM access yet, but I'll take a square box at this point. Happy Friday! #commodore #vicsrevenge
07 Jul, 2022 How is today the first day I've ever heard of SpaceVim?
06 Jul, 2022 Green is the best color.
06 Jul, 2022 Not that I'm surprised… I need ONE 74HCT245N for a @AtticThe adapter. Do I have one in my huge parts inventory? Not one. But if you need 74LS245Ns, I'm your guy. Mouser has 12,500 back-ordered until May 2023. Sigh. #commodore
06 Jul, 2022 Not that I need another project, but I’ve been gathering things I need to make a PET 2001 replica out of wood. Working chicklet keyboard: check. Gonna disassemble and do a restoration and preservation session. Anyone have one that can measure the case for me? #commodore
05 Jul, 2022 Deep woods #Vicsrevenge VIC drop-in FPGA progress: Finally have an internal pixel clock 4.434Mhz driving a composite (no color yet) pulse with the correct timings for a 2µs character width (225.5ns per pixel). Probably doesn't seem like much but it matters a lot to me #commodore
04 Jul, 2022 Watch out for computers full of electronic debris. #appleiie
03 Jul, 2022 When I said “drop in VIC replacement” did you take that as “true to the original in every respect”? Because Composite video with the VIC-20 colors is a royal PIA. VGA is much more easier. I know, I know, there are no shortcuts. This is also why I gave myself a year. #commodore
02 Jul, 2022 Finally got me some real (r@re) punched paper tape. Actually have no idea what’s on these so I’m gonna have to break out the worlds worst paper tape reader to give it a go.
02 Jul, 2022 Lived here 10 years and gone for a walk 4-5 times a week (including winter). So I’ve probably come over this hill 2000+ times. Still not tired of the view around here. Happy Saturday.
01 Jul, 2022 Wow this book arrived crazy fast. Guess the Apple IIe is the vintage machine I’m keeping on my desk for July.
01 Jul, 2022 I need an ESP32 that's like an Arduino Mega. Can I have like 60 usable GPIOs please? Sigh.
30 Jun, 2022 I'm a decent 6502 assembly programmer (milage may vary) so I figured hopping onto an assembler on the Apple II would be a snap. It is... except I never learned ProDOS... got hung up there. Much reading and now I'm comfortable. #appleiie
30 Jun, 2022 Taking a break from a VMWare certification to have a little Apple IIe fun. I don't have a color monitor (my Apple monitor is Green) so to get color I HAVE to use my capture setup. Works pretty well ;-)
29 Jun, 2022 Wait, everyone didn’t save their Trapper? I’m the only one? Huh.
28 Jun, 2022 Designing composite video in FPGA for the 6560/1 VIC replacement project #vicsrevenge... this might be the most useful visualizer/synthesis tool I've ever seen. Load your Verilog and get a visual representation AND what amounts to a test bench setup. Brilliant! #FPGA #commodore
28 Jun, 2022 Today's side quest is to get back into computer vision. Might was well kit-bash it with reading paper tape right?
27 Jun, 2022 A year later and I finally soldered the keyboard header pins in. Coming soon :) #commodore
27 Jun, 2022 I blame the influence of @K0FFY_Radio for this purchase
27 Jun, 2022 I need the 80 column mode on my 128 for a long number project this week. July is my scheduled maintenance month for this machine so I might as well do that first since I have it out. No retrobrighting happens in my shop. This thing earned it's yellow ;-) #commodore
27 Jun, 2022 JiffyDOS on a VIC-20 is a strange animal
24 Jun, 2022 I forgot that I have this butane powered soldering iron. Very convenient for a single quick job. Gotta keep it in mind.
21 Jun, 2022 eBay, have you lost your mind? Literally no one should be interested in this.
20 Jun, 2022 I needed some window tint for the overhead window in the airplane, and it’s just a bonus that it is just the thing you need on a KIM-1 (clone) to increase the visibility of the LED display. Before and after is pretty stark. #commodore #kim1
20 Jun, 2022 Pulled out the FabGL board. Apparently I was running Windows 3.0 last time. Seemed more fitting to turn it into a VIC-20. And what’s the first game on the list in the distribution? Splatform by @8BitShowAndTell… That guy sure gets around #commodore
20 Jun, 2022 Squeezing @BrunoLevy01's RISC-V core onto an Icestick #FPGA is a lesson in "you really can do a lot with just a little". So many lessons to be learned. At 50Mhz Pi and Mandelbrot work really well. I'll leave the Icestick permanently hung off of this Raspberry Pi from now on.
19 Jun, 2022 This is the best cure for writers block that I know of. There are no shortcuts.
17 Jun, 2022 There’s an add on to the romulator that uses an ESP32 to get rid of the need for a Raspberry Pi to flash it. But it does result in a strange tower of instability. I think I’m gonna just add a JTAG cable between them and lay it in the case out of the way. #commodore
17 Jun, 2022 Getting back to the 6560/1 drop in replacement project. Ended up just using a foam board to lightly double side tape everything on. This allows me to move the whole thing when I need the desk space for something else. Need to connect all the wires now #vicsrevenge #commodore
17 Jun, 2022 Put @adumont’s custom bios and 6502 Forth implementation on my CERBERUS 2080. I guess I’ll have to actually learn Forth now :) Happy Friday!
16 Jun, 2022 Happened to open Hacker News this morning and noticed someone submitted my article and I’m number 3 this morning. Since this internet is only for complaining these days, I think I will NOT read the comments.
15 Jun, 2022 Had this DIP-40 to IDC socket cable custom made and it looks fantastic. At least one part of the project will be neat and tidy #commodore #vicsrevenge
14 Jun, 2022 Broke out the Cerberus 2080 this morning to test out an idea on a 6502 at a fast clock speed. 8Mhz should do.
13 Jun, 2022 Ended up springing for the most up to date version of this book because… RISC-V. Lots and lots to study in here. #fpga #riscv
12 Jun, 2022 Another piece of unobtainium has been obtained. #fpga
11 Jun, 2022 This is just the summer book pile that’s on my nightstand. There’s another this high on my office desk. Good thing I’m a fast reader :)
10 Jun, 2022 Atari VCS/2600 composite video mod is pretty straightforward. What better game to smoke test with than Yars’ Revenge :) #atari
10 Jun, 2022 Before work this morning I got an okayish mod to the “worlds worst paper tape reader” working. Now can somewhat reliably read the sprocket holes and use them as a timing signal. Super happy at this point and I may call this “complete”. #kim1 #commodore
10 Jun, 2022 Same price for 1-25.125 Mhz clock as 16 of them. So now I have 15 spares...
09 Jun, 2022 Guy up the road from me called and said he found this unopened laptop in storage and do I want it? I literally just pulled the plastic off of an Everex 386. The screen contrast/over brightness needs work and the hard drive is toast. 40 pin DIP EEPROM is kinda neat.
09 Jun, 2022 Rereading this book today. Seems important at the moment for so many reasons.
09 Jun, 2022 I was feeling like living dangerously today so I broke out Schrodinger’s cat of computers. The cat is alive today ;-) #commodore #plus4
09 Jun, 2022 Broke out the PC-4 to use for my day job today. Post by @HeyBirt reminded me how great it is :)
08 Jun, 2022 Look who has developed a RAM fault. My least favorite machine in my collection.
07 Jun, 2022 Okay, so I got off on a bunny-trail working out how to get Jim Butterfield's Lunar Lander for the KIM-1 printed on paper tape. Back off man, I'm a scientist! #commodore #kim1
06 Jun, 2022 Waiting on some parts for the VIC chip replacement project so that’s on hold now this week. Might build this Super Snapshot replica board this evening. #commodore
06 Jun, 2022 I know you were just sitting there wondering if a VIC-20 will boot off of an external 3.3v clock signal. The answer is surprisingly: yes. Scope here shows activity on all of the RAM from the CPU. Neato! #commodore
06 Jun, 2022 This VIC-20 got HOT. Swapped the linear regulator with a modern switching ($9). Before: 46C drawing 2.3 amps. After: 26C drawing 1.03 amps. Much better. #commodore
05 Jun, 2022 I’m gonna need to set up a dedicated workspace for this #vicsrevenge project. My desk can’t look like this for a year. Hmm. #commodore
04 Jun, 2022 I'm collecting Verilog examples and tutorials. If you have recommendations, please let me know. Bonus if they are in book form. #FPGA #Verilog
03 Jun, 2022 Happy friday! How about a little 80 column PET love this morning? Zig Zag array will do nicely. #commodore #PET
02 Jun, 2022 With bi directional level shifters the final board will have less chips. VIC-20 system clock replacement from the FPGA. 3v logic input is yellow, 5v output is purple. Freq is correct. Shape needs work. Ringing is mostly breadboard parasitics #commodore #vicsrevenge
02 Jun, 2022 Feel super spoiled with 32 channels. #commodore
01 Jun, 2022 Romulator by @bitfixer is turning out to be a great troubleshooting tool for repairing VIC-20s. This is the second board donated to the #vicsrevenge 6560/1 drop in replacement project I was able to get working again in a few minutes with the Romulator's help #commodore
01 Jun, 2022 I'm sure there are libraries for this, but creating the MOS parts in KiCAD is helping me wrap my mind around everything. 6560/1 is this morning's project, I'll open source (Github) when I have them all done and correct #commodore #vicsrevenge
29 May, 2022 Least favorite keyboard I’ve ever used. Also pictured, an Atari 400. #atari
29 May, 2022 These are a few of my favorite things. #atari
29 May, 2022 At least this transformer is in a case with screws. Might be nothing more than this fuse being blown. #commodore
28 May, 2022 This first VIC-20 I received to repair just ate a transformer. What the hell is this? Looks like a solder blob dead short to me right? Good one is second same part. #commodore
28 May, 2022 Pro tip: riding lawn mower engines don’t start if your fuel cutoff solenoid goes bad. I didn’t want to cut the grass today anyway :)
28 May, 2022 Taking a couple day break from the VIC project until some 74LVC245s arrive. In the meantime, I think I’ll take a little detour.
27 May, 2022 Crazy good
27 May, 2022 I love the VIC-20, but sometimes formatting stuff on the screen can be challenging. Happy Friday! #commodore
26 May, 2022 Ever flip over to another virtual desktop and have to ask yourself more than once “wait, why was I working on this?”. Yeah. Thursday.
26 May, 2022 Wrote some scripts to create 32 and 64k ROMs so I can test sending addresses and reading the data bus without worrying about RAM timing with the CPU for now. Split the problem and tackle one half at a time right? Put a 'frozen' screen at A000 for now. #vicsrevenge #commodore
25 May, 2022 Even my new favorite calculator loves the MiniPET ;-)
25 May, 2022 My new favorite browser plugin. Your brain, like your body, is what you feed it. Don't let others (or algorithms) feed it for you.
24 May, 2022 I was just looking at my logbook and need a couple approaches for IFR currency. Do you think the FAA will accept this VIC-20 Simulator? It works surprisingly well. I'm just saying FAA, could be good enough. #commodore
24 May, 2022 One of my 2022 goals is to finish both of these including typing and understanding (as best I can)every example on both the C64 and VIC-20. Just finished the BASIC book, so slightly ahead of schedule. On to the Kernal book. I blame @8BitShowAndTell for this one :) #commodore
23 May, 2022 I know you were just sitting there thinking "What IS the clock divider setup to run a VIC-20 without needing the onboard clock circuit working? 1.10822Mhz is pretty specific." Well today is your lucky day. #vicsrevenge #commodore
22 May, 2022 Just thinking it would be nice to be able to read VIC-20 video RAM in real time. Then I remembered I have a Romulator (for a year, never used). Unfortunately the vram isn't implemented yet, but I can still dump the rest of memory to a file which is nice. #commodore #vicsrevenge
22 May, 2022 So many Mega 65 posts. This is like a Mega 66 so there. #commodore
21 May, 2022 Picked up a DM-42. I blame @svenpetersen191 for this one. I resisted the purchase as long as I could. Amazing how it’s almost exactly the same size as my very well worn HP-42
21 May, 2022 Two more boards donated to the VIC project arrived today. Awesome. #commodore
20 May, 2022 I don’t think I can get away with NOT level shifting from 3.3 to 5v on a VIC-20. Probably not… But there sure are nice and cheap tools for things these days. Need a completely configurable 3 output 8khz to 160Mhz clock generator? That’ll be 6 whole dollars please.
20 May, 2022 Beautiful VIC-20 board donated by the amazing @cmherndon79 for the 6560/1 project. This board will be the one that gets the prototype board for testing. #commodore #vicsrevenge
20 May, 2022 Well that.. DEFINITELY looks like a Composite video signal (PAL). Woot! Now on to the interlace math and the NTSC version. Urg, do we REALLY need interlacing? VGA is SO much easier... #commodore #vicsrevenge
19 May, 2022 Why spend 10 seconds sketching a timing diagram for VIC-20 video output signals when you can spend 20 minutes doing it on an actual VIC-20? Happy almost Friday ;) #commodore #vicsrevenge
19 May, 2022 Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier (work), but the next step in the VIC 6560/1 project is to create composite out on pins 2 and 3. This is at least starting to look something like a composite luma signal, kinda. One step at a time. Back to day job! #commodore #vicsrevenge
18 May, 2022 First time I've used this modeling software and was impressed. Working out NTSC Luminance timing logic is a big help after just a couple mins. 100Mhz clock on the FPGA so we can just count nanoseconds. Can export to Verilog after simulation. Most excellent #commodore #vicsrevenge
18 May, 2022 Rated at 11.5 and puts out 11.9 under no load. Not bad for 41 years old. #commodore
18 May, 2022 Progress this morning before the day job kicks in: I have an externally clocked VIC-20! Internal timing being driven my an ICE40 FPGA. It’s a couple cycles slow but getting there. Now to start on video signals. The math makes my brain hurt. More coffee #commodore #vicsrevenge
17 May, 2022 One of the very strange quirks about NTSC and PAL Composite video on VIC-20s is the half frame interlacing and the offset odd numbers you have to "count". So how long exactly is each frame SUPPOSED to be… #commodore #vicsrevenge
17 May, 2022 Next step in the #vicsrevenge project is to create the two out of phase clocks that the CPU uses. This 6561 outputs pretty close to the spec. #commodore
16 May, 2022 I do buy legit copies of JiffyDOS from Jim B and even buy the official switcher when I need them. Sure I can burn my own with pirated copies, but a legit license is $8 whole dollars. Cmon man. #commodore
16 May, 2022 In case you're one of THOSE people who was just sitting there thinking "what ARE the startup values in the VIC chip registers on a VIC-20?" Well, you're in luck. #commodore
16 May, 2022 Gonna have to build some sort of test bench jig if I’m going to have 32 leads connected to the VIC chip at once without it being a wire hot mess. Good news it the DreamSourceLab 32 channel analyzer arrived and took about 60 seconds to set up. #commodore
15 May, 2022 Well this is good, turns out I do know how to create a B&W PAL (and NTSC) Composite/S-Video signal from scratch. My timings aren't quite right, but it's close. Good first crack though. #commodore #VIC20hacking #learnallthethings
14 May, 2022 Package delivered from
14 May, 2022 Actually read the manual for my scope yesterday. Turns out it’s crazy easy to trigger on a PAL horizontal scan line number. On 110 here you can clearly see the blinking cursor. Turns out RTFM is a good idea after all. #commodore
14 May, 2022 Yes, even the KIM-1 (clone) can count to a couple quintillion with ease ;-) #commodore
13 May, 2022 I read this cover to cover sitting by the river yesterday. Can’t recommend it enough.
12 May, 2022 Current situation
11 May, 2022 I think I've decided on a working codename. Logic analyzer ordered and shipped. I'm shooting for a working version in a year.
09 May, 2022 8 Bit processors can count to 18 Quintillion just fine. "Wheat and chessboard problem" in 6502/10 Assembly for my "learn something every day" task. #commodore
07 May, 2022 I tell myself I have some lofty career aspirations to justify my deep dive into learning to code FPGAs this year. But I know deep down it’s so I can try making drop in replacements for things like this, which I found in my stash. It tests good in my only NTSC VIC 20 #commodore
07 May, 2022 I wonder where in my yard I should be looking for this package…
06 May, 2022 Think I found the color film I’m adding to all of my 7 segment displays to help them show up better on phone cameras
06 May, 2022 I own a couple dozen calculators. I checked and only two of them can multiply two 32-bit numbers and give me the full 64-bit product. The@NumWorks and TI Inspire. Oh, and a Commodore 64 if you can code in Assembly;-) #commodore
06 May, 2022 I own a couple dozen calculators. I checked and only two of them can multiply two 32-bit numbers and give me the full 64-bit product. The@NumWorks and TI Inspire. Oh, and a Commodore 64 if you can code in Assembly;-) #commodore
05 May, 2022 Always meant to read this series. Found em for a dollar so no time like the present.
05 May, 2022 Finally got around to doing the S-Video Mod on my Vicky-20. The results are pretty good. Probably about as good as you can get from a VIC-20 of any kind, so certainly nothing to complain about there. #commodore
04 May, 2022 Had some fun last night playing with SYS parameters and learning a lot. Here's extending BASIC to implement a PRINT AT equivalent on Commodore 64/VIC-20 to do the 100 Door problem. Again ;-)
04 May, 2022 Writing an article and occurred to me I need to add a word to my Mac dictionary... #commodore
03 May, 2022 Picked up a set of gymnastics rings to add to my workout setup at home. I do enjoy these “users instruction enjoyment and importance” lost in translation comic books they included. These tapes are kindly prepared…
02 May, 2022 Next to the Corsham KIM-1 the KIM Uno looks crazy tiny (it is). I heard from questionable sources that it’s more about how you use it than the size so don’t worry little KIM Uno, it’ll all work out. #commodore
02 May, 2022 I built a paper tape reader from scratch without any reference designs. Someone pointed out there there’s a book from 1979 that has designs for this in it. Annndd I happen to own this book…. Sigh. Let’s tell people I wanted to do it the hard way on purpose shall we?
30 Apr, 2022 Alright, going outside for the rest of the day but I promised myself I'd go from novice to expert(ish) in @JuliaLanguage in 2022 so I needed a project I want to work on. Implementing a 6502 emulator seemed pretty natural to get started ;-)
29 Apr, 2022 Success! The world's worst paper tape reader: Decoding on the PAL-1(KIM-1 Clone), LEDs (because blinkenlights) AND VIC-20 at the same time!
28 Apr, 2022 Success! The world's worst paper tape reader: Decoding on the PAL-1(KIM-1 Clone), LEDs (because blinkenlights) AND VIC-20 at the same time! Timing is tricky by hand, but I couldn't be happier with this complete hack job that actually works. Are YOU keeping up with the #commodore?
27 Apr, 2022 Worlds worst paper tape reader mid week progress: Test creating the enclosure peices. Not thrilled with the PVC as a material. Might move to ABS or maybe even a hardwood, but this cheaply confirms my design looks good. Happy camper.
27 Apr, 2022 Being inside today seems like a silly thing to be doing.
27 Apr, 2022 Well that's pretty satisfying. Happy Wednesday from my PAL-1 (KIM-1 Clone)!
26 Apr, 2022 Worlds worst paper tape reader progress: this is just as good as drawing schematics right?
26 Apr, 2022 Made some changes to the Turbo Macro Pro / Super Snapshot Cheat sheet based on input from @K0FFY_Radio #commodore
26 Apr, 2022 Submitted some changes to the Commodore BASIC version of the Identity Matrix on @rosettacode so it displays better. The original was a copy of the AppleSoft BASIC and had way too much whitespace. If it looks good on a VIC-20, it'll look good on the other #Commodore machines ;-)
25 Apr, 2022 Took a break from @JuliaLanguage for a bit but I’m gonna try it for an ML project I’m starting. Sure is zippy
25 Apr, 2022 Picked two of these up from @CommodoreKazz for use in hooking up a VIC-20 and a 128 to the worlds worst paper tape reader #commodore
24 Apr, 2022 Worlds worst paper tape reader needs some custom parts so I pulled the X-Carve out of storage. Got it cleaned and calibrated. Figured making a sign was a good verification test as letters require then precision I’ll need.
23 Apr, 2022 I generally wear my mistakes as a badge of honor. But I made a mistake on the vertical stab that's gonna require me to probably have to rebuild it. Very expensive mistake. Sigh.
23 Apr, 2022 Happy 40th to the ZX Spectrum. Broke mine out today to celebrate.
22 Apr, 2022 I LOVE Mr Hildon's Inner Space Anthology. But every once in a while I get to a part that is... kinda wrong ;-) #commodore
21 Apr, 2022 Been a fan of Dave’s YouTube channel a long time and finally picked up his book. Really looking forward to this one.
21 Apr, 2022 Couple conference calls in a row this afternoon. I pay attention better if I’m doing stuff with my hands so I started building another Eater 6502 breadboard computer. Everyone has two these days right?
20 Apr, 2022 When I was a kid, the USR ports on my #Commodore machines were a mystery. Now, they are crazy useful and easy to understand. Always learning...
20 Apr, 2022 Worlds worst paper tape reader mid week update: I can get a pretty solid 1.4 volt square wave with cheap copy paper. Thicker paper will be closer to 2.4. Both are clear enough waves to be fully usable. Time to fire up the CNC machine to make the mounting brackets. Awesome!
19 Apr, 2022 Worlds worst paper tape reader update:This tiny LED at half this brightness creates a usable signal to this tiny phototransistor through ordinary copy paper. Very happy with the results. Now to build a dark enclosure and wire up 8 of them in a row. This might actually work :)
19 Apr, 2022 It was nice of Chevy to include rod holders in my truck.
18 Apr, 2022 Driving the LEDs on the Corsham KIM clone is cool too. It’s second RIOT is busy with the SD card board, so I’m using a 65c22. Still waiting on parts for the paper tape reader so I figured learning the 6522 was a good evening activity. #commodore
18 Apr, 2022 Whelp, that was harder than I thought to make manually. Already sketching out designs for project number 2: The world’s worst paper punch tape puncher ;-)
18 Apr, 2022 Figured that debugging in binary would be best so gotta wire up some blinkenlights
18 Apr, 2022 Waiting on some parts from Mouser for my "world's worst paper tape reader" project. I don't actually have any tape, so I'm creating it by hand. Might as well have a C64 assist in helping me punch the tape. ASCII format fits my brain the best on an 8 dot 1-inch tape. #commodore
16 Apr, 2022 Happy Friday from KIM-1s (and clones) everywhere. Thanks to @masterhit for taking the time preserve this one from the 70s! #commodore
13 Apr, 2022 Watching a new acquaintance react to “I really love tinkering with old computers” has proven to be a remarkable method for judging someone’s character.
13 Apr, 2022 Super busy with day job today, but this evening starting to layout my first crack at the world’s worst paper tape reader, KIM-1 powered.
12 Apr, 2022 Well, I do have a CNC and a lot of aluminum. Paper tape punch might even be doable.
12 Apr, 2022 I’ve got it in my brain to build an 8 dot 1 inch paper tape reader. Because… science? I dunno.
11 Apr, 2022 Going back through my own Cipher series for fun. I figured Vigenère cipher is a good one to port to the KIM-1. BASIC first, next ML and making use of the seven segments and keypad somehow #commodore
09 Apr, 2022 Well @8BitShowAndTell has me down another rabbit hole. I suspect this one will be MUCH better than that time I had to endure watching Slipstream…
09 Apr, 2022 Had this tool more than a year and still use it all the time. Super useful.
09 Apr, 2022 April snow brings May flowers?
08 Apr, 2022 I AM SUCCESS! Now using my PET clone as the TTY terminal for one of my KIM-1 Clones with PETTERM. Both 40 and 80 columns look pretty good! Kudos to @K0FFY_Radio @tynemouthsw @ChartreuseK @svenpetersen191 and @HutchCA for the moral support ;-) #commodore
07 Apr, 2022 Exploring different ways to do visualizations over a slow TTY/Serial terminal. #commodore
06 Apr, 2022 Proof that older computer books (1976) just did it better.
06 Apr, 2022 Cutting my teeth on the TTY ROM routines on KIM-1 (clone). Here's my version of hello world: count 0-9 and newline after each. I've definitely got the hang of these now. Soooo what to make with it... #commodore
04 Apr, 2022 Right on the edge of being slightly dated, but still the best primer for this subject.
04 Apr, 2022 Sometimes I need to use a modern computer instead of a vintage machine as a serial terminal for KIM-1 (clones mostly). So I figure a retro font (Thanks Style!) and amber color at least get me in the right frame of mind. #commodore
03 Apr, 2022 Truck tailgates… endless uses. #1455- Camp stove platform.
02 Apr, 2022 First day of trout season. Haven’t found any trout but I have figured about where a half dozen smallmouths are.
02 Apr, 2022 A little ice on the tent is no excuse for coffee to be skipped. All good, I put my hands in the cooler to warm them up.
01 Apr, 2022 Tent camping near a creek in the mountains this weekend with Julie. Only going to get down to 31F tonight ;)
29 Mar, 2022 On today’s episode of learn something every day: RISC-V core running on a Lattice FPGA at 50 MHz driving a Max7219 with a 10x10 LED matrix using 100% open source tools. Building and deploying from a headless Raspberry Pi so completely portable. Feels pretty good :)
29 Mar, 2022 My colour Maximite has developed a RAM fault for no particular reason. It's surface mount, which I have a negative desire to try and remove and replace, so it is dead to me. Please, no more "modern retro" projects with surface mount. Bleh.
28 Mar, 2022 Another breadbin saved by a PLAnkton #commodore
28 Mar, 2022 When you don't really care if it works on battery power for more than a few minutes.
27 Mar, 2022 Cutting my teeth on HP-16c (clone) programming while listening to some new LPs we bought this week.
27 Mar, 2022 I'm all for a couple hours of burn in, but double digit days? I mean I guess you could... #commodore #vic20
27 Mar, 2022 Which Computer?
26 Mar, 2022 Went together easily. I’m very pleased with this. Aluminum case and adjustable contrast and backlight are nice touches.
26 Mar, 2022 I’ve wanted an HP-16c for a looonng time. They are now in the $350-$400 range so I got a kit instead. Aluminum front and back plates, feels really nice.
26 Mar, 2022 Well that's new... hmm. #commodore #VIC20
25 Mar, 2022 Oh yeah, @JohnKennedyMSFT just updated the VirtualKIM app so it displays correctly on iPad mini. Most excellent.
25 Mar, 2022 Needed a cassette player for my Coco 2 and KIM-1. Thrift store for the win.
25 Mar, 2022 Friday fun: Running James McClanahan's Sudoku solver on the KIM-1. Lowly 6502 solves this in around 20 seconds… not too shabby! #commodore
24 Mar, 2022 Finally have a working FPGA (Lattice) development environment with ALL open source tools on a Pi.
23 Mar, 2022 This morning’s pre dawn learn something every day was Fibonacci 1-10 on the KIM-1… hand coded (ie the hard way) using the keypad and pencil and paper. Also iPhones REALLY don’t like to take video of red seven segment LEDs. It’s much brighter IRL #commodore
22 Mar, 2022 Learn something every day lunch break edition: soldered up the ROM expansion board for my PAL-1(KIM-1) to give Apple I integer BASIC a go.
21 Mar, 2022 This says “tamperproof scoring”… clearly they underestimate the raw processing power of the mighty VIC-20. Challenge accepted. #commodore
20 Mar, 2022 In the summer I don’t love that my hangar door faces east, it gets hot quickly. But in March when it’s 38 degrees (F) in here, that sun pouring in is super welcome.
19 Mar, 2022 I mean, knowing yourself well does seem like a sound strategy… #commodore
18 Mar, 2022 It’s best to put the shorter KungFu flash cart behind the others on an X-Pander. Gotta let the KungFu exercise its inner stealth Ninja chops. #commodore
18 Mar, 2022 Pretty cool thrift store find. Gemini on 8mm. Neato!
18 Mar, 2022 They are DEFINITELY not for sale, but I just looked up prices for the 42s… they are nuts. But having used both of these for many many years I get why they are still in high demand.
16 Mar, 2022 Today's quick "learn something every day" breakfast (which I don't eat) edition: Trying to get used the the non contiguous screen memory locations. I know there is some good technical reason they did this, but man it makes certain things more complicated. #appleII
15 Mar, 2022 Shifting gears the next week or so to something I’m less familiar with.
15 Mar, 2022 Always looking for a good biography I’ve not read yet. Just picked this one up. It’s a beast!
15 Mar, 2022 Studying the random number routines of various Commodore machines. Interesting how much of a pattern there is on the C64 compared to the PET. MUCH less random by default. SID vs VIA which is interesting. Identical code except screen location. More research to do... #commodore
14 Mar, 2022 Pi with logo is not only inefficient but also inaccurate. But it sure is fun!
14 Mar, 2022 Another one of my favorite ways to estimate pi. The PET did a good job with this one in just over an hour. #commodore
14 Mar, 2022 Yep, still satisfying. Gonna see how many people I can upset for one reason or another (Y'all need to relax) by posting all of my favorite ways to calculate pi on old computers today ;-) #commodore
14 Mar, 2022 Ever try calculating pi with only 6502 machine code (KIM-1) and no kernal or basic floating point routines? Not trivial. Happy Pi day!! #commodore
13 Mar, 2022 At some point over the last few years I’ve gone back to getting everything in print. Not even sorry.
12 Mar, 2022 Well playing in the snow is done…today’s learn something every day I broke out the 128 to learn some graphics techniques. I don’t spend NEARLY enough time in 128 mode so maybe this week I’ll do something about that. This is a tricky but fun one(about 40x speed) #commodore
12 Mar, 2022 Well I don’t need to do yard work today…
11 Mar, 2022 Keeping an eye on a large data migration that is taking place this evening so I can’t go anywhere. It’s progressing well enough that I had time to replace a failing PLA. Hey look, when I put it back together it still works :) #commodore
11 Mar, 2022 My slightly convoluted but perfectly serviceable way of getting green/amber out of my Mini PET 40/80 to a 4:3 LCD. Composite to VGA to color adapter to HDMI. Works well. And yes, I do have an Apple Green CRT, but this is a nice solution if you didn't for less than $50 #commodore
09 Mar, 2022 I know it's a little hard to see in the screen capture… I just completed Week 1 of @ShawnHymel's "Computer Vision with Embedded Machine Learning" on @coursera. It's pretty confidently identifying resistors and capacitors out of my parts bin. Neato
09 Mar, 2022 Some more unobtainium has arrived at my house.
08 Mar, 2022 A Patreon exclusive from @8BitShowAndTell released today has me following along on my 128 in 128 mode which is pretty rare in my office. My 128 spends most of its time as a C64 that takes up a hearty amount of desk space. Robin’s deep dives are always fantastic. #commodore
06 Mar, 2022 Good progress this morning. I forgot to take a picture of it assembled, but I did get the rudder and vertical stabilizer mounted permanently. More about the journey than the destination anyway. AND I even remembered where I put the hinge pin this time ;-)
06 Mar, 2022 First time I’ve been out to work on this in 2022. Warm weather helps ;)
05 Mar, 2022 Sometimes dead trees highjack your Saturday.
04 Mar, 2022 Some visualizations don't get old to see on "all the things". MS Basic on the KIM-1 Mandelbrot. 10x speed. #commodore
03 Mar, 2022 In case you were just sitting there wondering how to land in Lunar Lander on the KIM-1 (clone) in just two actions… start the game, count 3 Mississippi’s, thrust to 1. When your speed hits EXACTLY 85, thrust to 6. Works on this Machine... We can all rest easy now. #commodore
03 Mar, 2022 At some point, my KIM-1 setups have become more complicated than a VIC-20 and I'm not even sorry about it. #commodore #problemsthatarentproblems
02 Mar, 2022 Today's "learn something every day" lunchtime edition: Studying this fantastic example of a custom stack implementation to keep track of recursive searches to solve mazes. I ported it to Turbo Macro Pro of course ;-) #commodore
28 Feb, 2022 I suspect no one is surprised that I started studying how to do Machine learning with cameras by detecting Commodore machines right? Eventually want to try detecting skin cancer, but that's a long road ahead. Never know when you might need a Commodore detector though #commodore
28 Feb, 2022 Going to spend a fair amount of my “learn something every day” time this week with the @openmvcam. Pretty nifty.
28 Feb, 2022 Someone asked me how to make a split color screen on the Commodore 64 in Assembly last night for... reasons. Easiest way I can think of is to squish the screen to 24 rows so the row count is even. #commodore
27 Feb, 2022 Today’s learn something every day is tricks with 7 segments on the Corsham KIM-1. Happy Sunday :) #commodore
26 Feb, 2022 Yesterday’s kitchen experiment turned out great. Had 3 pounds of leaf lard that we got 3 solid pints of snowy rendered lard from. Saved the last half pint and the cracklings as well (for science )
25 Feb, 2022 After a fair amount of bug hunting I got this Rubik's cube on the VIC-20 working. Now to do a solver in 1000 bytes (yes, in ML for speed) Does require a 3k expansion. #commodore
25 Feb, 2022 In Today’s learn something every day I’m making some improvements to a 40 year old Rubik’s cube game including adding a solver on the VIC-20. I forgot how hard it is to figure out which symbols to use sometimes when typing from printed listings. #commodore
24 Feb, 2022 In Today’s learn something every day I switched back to this book that I’ve committed to going all the way through in 2022. But to mix things up I switched from the C64 to the VIC-20 for a while. Why make it easy right? #commodore
22 Feb, 2022 Obligatory 2/22/22 on a TUEsday post.
22 Feb, 2022 I still get a kick out of the MS BASIC Easter eggs that go back all the way to 1977 (at least). MS BASIC for the KIM-1 if you press A for the memory size gives you the authors ;-) #commodore
21 Feb, 2022 Today’s “learn something every day, lunchtime edition” is a short one. Clock divider on an FPGA. This is really starting to click in my mind now.
18 Feb, 2022 Today's "learn something every day: Lunch break edition" is a transient planet finder (Pluto in this case) from @nostarch Lee Vaughan's "Real World Python" book. Learned a lot from this one. #python #poorpluto
18 Feb, 2022 Nope, still not tired of implementing Sierpinski on all the things #commodore #logo
18 Feb, 2022 Logo's recursion on the Commodore 64 is fast enough to be pretty useful. Neat. #commodore
17 Feb, 2022 Today’s “learn something every day” is Moore Finite State machine that implements a simple 4 bit counter on an FPGA. Green indicates the done state. Neato! Thanks to DigiKey for the tutorial.
17 Feb, 2022 This label order is SUPER confusing on the HP Prime since it can do both standard and RPN modes. I’ve got 30 years of muscle memory for the stack order and this label messes me up all the time.
14 Feb, 2022 I’m one KIM-1 clone away from having everything I need to make a 1977 style blockchain network ;-) Could always use a VIC-20 as the third… hmm #commodore
12 Feb, 2022 Julie and I are traveling again this weekend. I’m a very early morning person and she is not. Gives me a couple hours to invest my time or spend my time. My choice here is probably not surprising.
10 Feb, 2022 This book is much larger than I expected. #commodore
10 Feb, 2022 Now that I've got some extra ram on the KIM-1, it's time to try Microsoft BASIC on it (controlling from a C64 of course). Here's a breadth first search… not only works well, it's even pretty fast. #commodore
07 Feb, 2022 Putting a kettlebell ON my desk means it’s a constant reminder. Every hour during work it’s 20 push-ups and kettlebell work. Worked great!
07 Feb, 2022 I bought the PAL-1 to see if I'd like noodling with the KIM-1 platform. Turns out I like it enough to have now purchased all of the available expansions … AND the Corsham KIM-1 clone as well (ships later, chip shortage) #itsonlymoneyright #sevensegmentsarethefuture #commodore
07 Feb, 2022 If it’s above freezing my 3.5 mile daily hike is game on.
07 Feb, 2022 FedEx has just left this piece of unobtainium on my porch. Good luck getting one of these in 2022…
07 Feb, 2022 My Monday morning vibe...
05 Feb, 2022 This is hands down the weirdest thing I’ve ever found inside a used book I bought online. #commodore #maybetherearesecretsonit
05 Feb, 2022 The @Basic10L is <em>usually</em> about games. Since those aren't my thing, I started thinking about other interesting 10 liners. I can easily fit RC4 encryption in 10 lines with lots of room to spare. Wonder how I can expand on this… #commodore
04 Feb, 2022 Just home from a really good week on the road to a delivery of this fantastic book.
31 Jan, 2022 How much of a nerd am I? I’m pleased with my hotel room number for more than a couple reasons :)
31 Jan, 2022 How much of a nerd am I? I’m pleased with my hotel room number for more than a couple reasons :)
30 Jan, 2022 We don't need more "new" retro computers. But replicas… We DO need more of these. #commodore
29 Jan, 2022 My resting heart rate has settled right at 50 very consistently. Not too shabby.
29 Jan, 2022 It’s just before sunrise and I remembered that exactly 10 years ago today we jumped off a cliff. We uprooted our family from the DC suburbs and moved to the mountains of North Carolina. The view from our front door never disappoints even if you can’t really see the mountains this morning hardly at all.
28 Jan, 2022 I have been looking for a physical copy of this book for some time. The cover on it is a little rough, but the rest of it is in okay shape and usable. SUPER happy to have found this. #commodore
28 Jan, 2022 Occurs to me that using an Assembler on a Commodore 64 and then loading that program onto a KIM-1 isn't cross assembling. It's just assembling and loading. Not only isn't "cheating" but kinda feels good. #pedanticfridaythoughts #commodore
27 Jan, 2022 Only have 1 RIOT chip until my second one arrives from overseas so had to modify the classic Asteroid by Stan Ockers (1976ish) for the KIM 1. Another surprisingly playable game on such a simple interface. Loading paper tape format files over serial from a real C64 ;-) #commodore
26 Jan, 2022 Sooo many great programs to explore on the KIM-1. Spent a bit of time during lunch learning how the seven segments are wired. There is a surprising amount of example code out there with really clever techniques. KIM tribute to @8BitShowAndTell seemed appropriate #commodore
25 Jan, 2022 Got conferences and shows coming up the next few months so my badge needs updating. Converted Style’s C64 fonts to binary format and I think I’m getting close on the correct screen colors. I think I’ll also implement a 10 PRINT demo on it #commodore
25 Jan, 2022 Looking forward when I feel comfortable enough to do a 10 minute prototype for an idea on an FPGA platform. Microcontroller for now. Need to put in the work on learning FPGA better #therearenoshortcuts
25 Jan, 2022 At a party: “Play any sports?” Me:”Football for about 40 years.”
23 Jan, 2022 Did a full restoration of my wife’s Grandfather’s TI-58C. They are notorious for bad ram and this one needed replacing. Also converted it to a DC wall plug. Now accepts assembly language programs and the built in functions work. Very cool late 70s tech. But .27 amps, yikes!
23 Jan, 2022 These are a few of my fav-or-ite things.
23 Jan, 2022 I managed to enter all 196 Bytes of Lunar Lander by Jim Butterfield (BYTE April 1977) by hand with no errors on the first try. Such a fun game and a great way to learn 6502 Assembly programming the hard way. #commodore #shortcutsareboring
21 Jan, 2022 Got this KIM-1 replica together in a couple hours tonight. Was a fair bit of soldering but now I can computer like it’s 1976. 17 instructions to do a counter. Tomorrow morning we’re playing Jim Butterfield’s Lunar Lander on this thing! #commodore
21 Jan, 2022 My KIM-1 replica came way faster than I expected. Should be awesome. #commodore
21 Jan, 2022 Mentioned yesterday I've been going through this Math for Deep Learning book this week. The examples are all in Python, so I've been reimplementing every one in Julia. This not only gets me to really think about what I'm doing, but strengthens both my Python and Julia chops
20 Jan, 2022 Tearing through this book during breaks this week. Highly recommended.
19 Jan, 2022 The Apple Lisa was released 39 years ago today. While it was a market failure it was crazy innovative. If you think about it, the computer you use today doesn't REALLY do anything more than this computer did.
18 Jan, 2022 This group in my collection contains some really fantastic articles. April 1977 was one of my favorite issues of the whole BYTE magazine run. Never mind that I was 2 years old when it was printed ;)
18 Jan, 2022 Well the fix was to reflow the solder joints around the connector. Must have had a cracked or marginal one. #commodore
18 Jan, 2022 Hmm, getting a fault on my MiniPET 40/80 on the IEEE port. Anyone know if this needs a loopback to pass or is this really a fault? #commodore
13 Jan, 2022 When picking up a new language (Julia this time), I like to solve new problems to get used to it or solve a problem I've solved in another language. Monty Hall will do nicely . Since Julia on an i7 is slightly faster than a 6502, I let the 64 do 1000 and Julia did 2^29 #commodore
12 Jan, 2022 This 1977 game on the KIM-1 is surprisingly playable and really fun. A whopping 196 bytes. The number of things I’ve learned from Jim Butterfield is staggering. Something to think about as I write and try to contribute even a small thing here and there. #commodore
11 Jan, 2022 Always wanted to add a python example the 100 Door problem article I did with the 8 Bit machines last year. Stumbled onthe fun Asciimatics library and then it was a snap.
11 Jan, 2022 I’ve collected something like 30 calculators over the years. Most at least 30 years old. In the “modern” category I have 4 graphing calculators. In theory I should like the HP the most, but in practice the order of most to least used left to right is this. Even I’m surprised.
10 Jan, 2022 Got the offending RAM off no problem but I just realized I don’t have a socket that will fit here. Off to mouser…
10 Jan, 2022 In case you were just sitting there asking yourself “what DOES the inside of an HP-58c calculator from 1977 look like”
10 Jan, 2022 Professionally packed… just like this loose rattling around in a box. Sigh.
09 Jan, 2022 I've been on Udemy for a decade and started but never finished many courses. And this is now the second one I've completed this week. Learn. All. The. Things.
09 Jan, 2022 Creating a simple hello world DApp. Have I ever mentioned how much a loathe nodejs and Javascript in general? Urg.
08 Jan, 2022 This is gonna need some work. My shots at 25 yards are consistently grouped like this which ain’t gonna cut it. Practice practice practice.
08 Jan, 2022 So cool. Made a jet engine sounding cook fire with a handful of dry twigs. Science is awesome.
08 Jan, 2022 Pocket knives
08 Jan, 2022 This numworks calculator is really fast
07 Jan, 2022 Doing a couple thousand-word article on the history and some usage of the Logo language, including code examples. Here's an example of some supporting stuff I'm creating for it. Fractal tree on Python (turtle) next to the same algorithm on a C64. Super fun. #commodore #python
07 Jan, 2022 I've signed up for 43 Udemy courses over the years. This is the VERY FIRST course I've EVER completed to the end. And… I'm planning to go through it from start to finish again.
07 Jan, 2022 The Commodore 64 was introduced 40 ago at CES. You couldn't get one until about August, but you could argue that today is its 40th birthday. It was and continues to be a heavy influence in my career. This very C64 was in my bedroom for a decade. Still runs like a champ #commodore
06 Jan, 2022 I love a program example that starts with "contrary to most available literature about USR…". This book is SO dense I have to go slow to keep from missing nuggets (rushing is dumb anyway). Like pulling the return address off of the stack at the end. SOOO GOOD. #commodore
06 Jan, 2022 Okay, Julia's plotting syntax is SO much better. Kinda just fits the way I think without having to look things up. Might be my new goto language… #JuliaLang
05 Jan, 2022 Alright, resistors are all placed. I’m leaving two out until I decide if this is going to be a PAL or NTSC board. #commodore
05 Jan, 2022 I’ve had this 250407 replica board for months and haven’t built it yet. Time to get started. #commodore
05 Jan, 2022 I hate it when I break something that’s a result of my carelessness. And… I don’t have any spares. Sigh
05 Jan, 2022 Okay, now I can clearly see why I'm going to keep learning Julia. Python took 18 seconds to do 100k iterations. Julia (almost identical code, definitely same approach) took 706 milliseconds. Dayuummm.
04 Jan, 2022 Completely unscientific and meaningless benchmarks are fun. My favorite BASIC program of all time is this maze from 1981 originally written for the Atari 400/800 and the PET. Turbo BASIC XL sure does help the Atari 800XL be the machine it really is. Impressive. #atari #commodore
04 Jan, 2022 These warnings exist because someone did it. I reserve ruining my broadheads by missing and hitting a tree… like a man.
04 Jan, 2022 Seriously my new favorite album. Listening through my late 80s Boze speakers in my office all day. @lukhash is amazing. Does anyone want to sell me their Vinyl copy?
04 Jan, 2022 Finally acquired an UnoCart (used, chip shortage and all that) for my Atari machines. Now I can properly try Turbo BASIC XL. This evening will be some completely ridiculous and shockingly unscientific benchmarking. #atari
03 Jan, 2022 Stealing my own Assembly code from my Enigma project for another project. Kinda love when you get to that point where you say "oh, I've done a bunch of the work for this already" #commodore
03 Jan, 2022 Working on the next article in my "ciphers on old computer things" series and reviewing some supporting code for a couple of the articles I did last year. Very simple code here but the BASIC built-in string slicing routines are fast enough for many fun visuals. #commodore
03 Jan, 2022 I think this is the first time I've ever used the BIT operator in my life. No longer a virgin ;-) #commodore
02 Jan, 2022 Compute's BASIC Toolkit book example 3 is passing parameters to SYS. So satisfying to be just getting into the weeds with 412 pages to go in the book ;-) #commodore
02 Jan, 2022 My linear algebra is really rusty so I'm going back and reviewing today. SO much better if you can visualize along the way and the tools for this these days are crazy good. How can you not love open source and the people who pour themselves into these libraries?
01 Jan, 2022 Still not decided on Assemblers on the VIC-20 so just doing it in the monitor for now. #commodore
01 Jan, 2022 Cold front will be here soon, so putting some miles in. We moved here 10 years ago this month and I still have to pinch myself that we live here.
01 Jan, 2022 I'm planning to go through this book this year on the 64 and VIC-20 at the same time. It may very well take me a good part of the year, but there really aren't shortcuts to anything worth doing. Means I need to re-evaluate VIC-20 assemblers again which is fun. #commodore
01 Jan, 2022 I eat broccoli sprouts by the fistful. If you grow then at home a quart costs like 3 cents.
01 Jan, 2022 Might not seem like much, but set out at the beginning of the week to get past the raw beginning stages of FPGA development. Button presses, LEDs, seven segments, counting… check. Super happy with my progress.
31 Dec, 2021 Spending some time learning <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaLanguage">@JuliaLanguage</a> this week. Just realized arrays are 1 based instead of zero. I don't know Julia, this new relationship might not be working for me.
30 Dec, 2021 Went the fairly traditional route to get this <a href="https://twitter.com/lukhash">@lukhash</a> program from the album onto my 64. Played it onto a tape and into the datasette. Other than having to hook up one my PAL 64s, was a snap. Very very cool. But I NEED this on Vinyl now ;-) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/commodore?src=hashtag_click">#commodore</a>
30 Dec, 2021 This finally arrived today. I was disappointed the LP was sold out when I ordered it back in November, but having it on CD does make it easier to get the bonus track, a Commodore program, onto my C64 so there’s that. Awesome artwork @lukhash #commodore
30 Dec, 2021 Challenging by myself to do this part, but got the elevator on today and it has all the right clearances for good movement. Now to balance it. #myzenith750
30 Dec, 2021 Change of pace for the build today. Working on the interior which is currently a hot mess. #myzenith750
29 Dec, 2021 Adding @JuliaLanguage to Jupyter is easy, but it's interesting that labs still calls this an ipynb by default which can't be right…
29 Dec, 2021 Heh, this rabbit hole is brought to me by <a href="https://twitter.com/somacdivad">@somacdivad</a>
29 Dec, 2021 It’s raining, so back inside this afternoon. In the interest of keeping to my principals, switching to a Lattice FPGA since at the moment it’s the best if you want a 100% open source tool chain. My Alchitry CU will do. BTW Digikey looks to have iCEsticks available mid Jan
29 Dec, 2021 We started this puzzle on Christmas morning. She just put the last piece in place. Julie did about 80% of it :)
29 Dec, 2021 Taking a break from FPGAs this morning to get the 5 of these I bought earlier in 2021 up and running. Got a lot of uses for these.
28 Dec, 2021 Feels weird to be walking around on Dec 28 in a T Shirt
27 Dec, 2021 Great first day progress learning FPGAs. Seven segment display counting from a Xilinx Artix 7 in Verilog and I even understand what's happening which makes it even sweeter.
27 Dec, 2021 My bow is 32 years old. It has zero fancy features. Shoots true. I’m finding many things in my life that I prefer to have less features.
27 Dec, 2021 I’m off all week and not a “relaxing is actually relaxing” kinda guy. I bought this a year ago and always meant to really get into FPGAs. No time like the present.
25 Dec, 2021 Easily my favorite food and stupid easy to make. Somehow I scored this at $6 per pound last week.
25 Dec, 2021 One of my favorite Christmas gifts… my wife found an unopened vintage Mastermind from the early 70s.
24 Dec, 2021 My twitter account was locked for this tweet which contained only a video of my own code. No music, nothing offensive.
24 Dec, 2021 Definitely have the hang of Logo on the C64 now. Since it's Christmas eve, I'm calling challenge from @101Computing done for now. I'll do more snowflake leg randomization here and there, but was fun to play with Logo this morning. #commodore
23 Dec, 2021 Yet another rabbit hole I'm down thanks to @8bitshowandtell. Been REALLY enjoying this book and through some patience (okay, A LOT...took like 6 months) I acquired a physical copy for less than highway robbery. #commodore
23 Dec, 2021 After quite a bit of work, I'm now getting a VERY good video signal out of this VIC-20(PAL). Even my cheap video capture device does a good job with it. #commodore
23 Dec, 2021 Today's beginner python challenge from @101Computing is a randomized snowflake challenge with Turtle. Since I'm not a beginner in Python (25 years), I figure Logo on the Commodore 64 was not cheating. Should be fun. #commodore
22 Dec, 2021 Just pulling this one out of storage. It was my wife’s grandfather’s who was an aerospace engineer at Lockheed. Works great but needs a bath. Am I reading this price tag right?
22 Dec, 2021 Six month check on my Vicky-20 build: I’m going to either have to remove and replace most of the precision sockets or figure out a way to hold the chips in. Every few days the ICs work their way out. Maybe zip ties? Double wipe sockets for me from now on. Sigh. #commodore #vic20
21 Dec, 2021 This HP32SII has been in my bag every day for about 25 years. Simple, rugged and powerful. But this HP Prime is really growing on me… hmmm.
21 Dec, 2021 Working on "cracking" simple ciphers on old computers next. Letter frequency, then word frequency. Step one works well enough #commodore
21 Dec, 2021 Coincidence that this person shares my name. But I’ve found my 2022 overall theme.
20 Dec, 2021 Permutations of 1 to 9 in Assembly/Machine Language, BASIC, and Python. It only took 30 hours in BASIC ;-) (Python was 2 seconds without optimizing) You know, for science https://imapenguin.com/permutations-of-1-to-9-in-6502-assembly/ #commodore #python
19 Dec, 2021 Sonic for the C64 is out today. I happen to have a 64C in my collection that's PAL. So combined with the UltimateII+, its 1581 drive, and 16MB REU, this game runs very very well. #commodore
18 Dec, 2021 Some people watch TV, I sort out graph theory concepts in a machine code monitor with my “laptop”. Like what you like and don’t apologize for it. #commodore
18 Dec, 2021 I was just thinking that this morning instead of being productive or doing holiday stuff I’d count how many times I can unintentionally hit the CAPS and break keys. #atari
17 Dec, 2021 A twin with actual head room. Now there’s a crazy idea.
17 Dec, 2021 What, that program only took... 29 hours. Don't ask questions ;-) #commodore
17 Dec, 2021 I really enjoyed Nick’s “Racing the Beam” so I figure this will be my next weekend reading.
14 Dec, 2021 Can you do #adventofcode with 40 year old machines? The answer is “some of it”. Even counting takes a long time, let's get into some of the details. https://imapenguin.com/can-you-do-advent-of-code-on-8-bit-machines/ #commodore
13 Dec, 2021 Finally getting back to writing up some of the ciphers I’ve done but not yet published. Only took like a 5 month break (detour?) Tomorrow I’ll post the VIC Cipher on the VIC20 which does just barely fit on an unexpanded VIC. #commodore
12 Dec, 2021 Hard not to be in awe of nature sometimes. These burrs are particularly good at clinging to sweatshirts.
12 Dec, 2021 I have been doing Breadth and Depth First Searches on Apple II and Commodore for a couple months, so Day 12 of #AdventOfCode was doable (but slow) on a C64. END is a keyword in BASIC so I changed it to FIN #commodore
11 Dec, 2021 Airplane isn’t going to build itself even if it’s 38 in here. #myzenith750
09 Dec, 2021 We bought a whole Mangalica pig from a local farm, used a local butcher. Having the whole animal means you have to use scraps, everything. Made some “cottage bacon” with some pieces and happened to have decent ingredients for an English breakfast (dinner).
08 Dec, 2021 For #AdventOfCode Day 8 Part 2, figured it out in Python first to wrap my brain around how to do it iteratively. After an "ah ha" moment in sorting the unique segments it clicked. Python: 0.04 seconds and PET: 25 minutes.I could refactor it to be faster but not bad. #commodore
08 Dec, 2021 Still having fun doing these #AdventOfCode puzzles in the morning. I changed the delimiter from "|" to a zero since old computers don't always have that character. Part one was a lot of data, but the PET got through it pretty quickly. #commodore
07 Dec, 2021 Something interesting I like to do on these long calculations is to compare machines to the fastest Commodore computer, the PAL VIC-20. In this case, the VIC-20 finished 48 minutes sooner than the NTSC C64. Very scientific of course 😉 #commodore
07 Dec, 2021 Part 2 of #AdventOfCode Day 7: my rough estimate is that my current code will run for… well a LONG time on a lowly #C64. So what to do… I know! Run the exact same code on BBC Basic on a 2.6Ghz i7 in 60 seconds ;-) Cheating? Maybe. Am I happy anyway? Yes #commodore #BBCBASIC
07 Dec, 2021 Might have to start doing these in Assembly starting tomorrow if I want to keep using 8 Bit (around 1Mhz ish) computers. Part 1 of #AdventOfCode Day 7 took almost 6 hours. Good thing I started it in the middle of the night ;-) #commodore
06 Dec, 2021 Trying this out for more or less the first time ever. Feels awkward...
05 Dec, 2021 Been working on a magic square solver for a couple weeks now. My recursive backtracker in Python typically takes about 290 tries. Iterative approach on the PET I've got down under 100 tries (although it takes 15 minutes). Pretty happy with this. #commodore
04 Dec, 2021 Most of my favorite antidotes for a great many things cost no money at all.
03 Dec, 2021 Used my favorite VIC-20 for #AdventOfCode Day 3. Did need to use a RAM expander on the lowly VIC, but it worked out okay. #commodore
02 Dec, 2021 Quick look at the Biltmore Christmas decorations with my favorite person.
02 Dec, 2021 For the #AdventOfCode Day 2 Part 2 my 8 Bit platform is short a single digit to display the precise 2 billion+ answer (intentionally blurred). So my 1983 Tandy PC-4 got recruited for the assist. I’m counting this as fair play. #commodore #PET
02 Dec, 2021 Blurred my answers ;-) Weapon of choice for #AdventOfCode Day 2 is the #commodore #PET #AdventOfCode2021
01 Dec, 2021 The two best Christmas albums of all time. We have many, many albums and these two are the best.
01 Dec, 2021 The #AdventOfCode Day 1 part 2 was a three-measurement sliding window. See, who needs more than 8 Bits in a computer? I blurred the answer, no cheating ;-) Url if you want to participate is: https://adventofcode.com/ #commodore #C64
01 Dec, 2021 Doing the #AdventOfCode for December using my weapon of choice. Day 1 part 1 was a snap. If I don't print the lines (looks cooler if I do) it gets the correct answer in 31 seconds. Not bad for a 39 year old machine #commodore #c64
30 Nov, 2021 Today's learn something every day: Back implementing manual stack and memoization on systems that don't REALLY do recursion. To help visualize loops, I started printing the status on every loop on a delay and reversing the stack pointer digit so I could follow it. #commodore
29 Nov, 2021 Christmas AND math. Sign me up.
27 Nov, 2021 Today's "learn something every day": Been studying recursion implementations in modern languages like Python. Taking this back to 8 Bit machines...this is the first time I've ever studied implementing a manual push/pop stack pointer combined with memoization. Got a lot of uses to ponder for this. #commodore #VIC20 #python
26 Nov, 2021 25 years together and she still takes my breath away.
24 Nov, 2021 Back to noodling during lunch with the "AI" computer player algorithm for this "connect five" game which I can still pretty handily beat. #commodore #appleII
23 Nov, 2021 Apparently it’s Fibonacci day (who makes up these days). Anyway, seems like a fun job for my crazy slow 1991 Sharp 9300C Hat tip to Andy Anderson for bringing this to my attention #FibonacciDay
23 Nov, 2021 This took me a while to figure out: All permutations of a naturally ordered string. In Python/Rust I'd use recursion, but on an 8-Bit you run out of space on the stack pretty quickly. Managed to come up with a working iterative version. Now I'll redo it in Assembly ;-) #commodore
21 Nov, 2021 Writing some weighted depth first searches for some security software in my day job. Can't think of a better way to refresh my tree searches knowledge than doing it on a PET. #commodore
20 Nov, 2021 I’ve never cared for the 80 Column hacks for the Commodore 64, but I love the Mandelbrot PETSCII program on the PET 8032 so much I could not resist. On this weeks episode of “Stupid Races Between Old Computery Things" PET vs C64(80 columns) vs 128 (10x speed) #commodore
19 Nov, 2021 I acquired this white TI nspire today. It’s disqualified from being on my episodes of “Stupid Races between old computery things” because it’s not old and with an ARM9 @ 396 MHz is more like a baby Raspberry Pi than a calculator. Still will be fun though.
19 Nov, 2021 Slipped out to the Christmas tree farm yesterday during lunch.
18 Nov, 2021 I'm always looking for something to do with an 80 Column PET. Mandelbrot in PETSCII might be cooler than any high res versions I've seen. Real-time took about 13 mins. #commodore #mathisfun
17 Nov, 2021 Barnsley Fern on Apple IIe, Commodore 64, and TI-84. The 8-bit machine videos are sped up 300% to match the much faster calculator render speed so they complete at similar times. This was VERY satisfying to do. #TI #commodore #appleIIe
17 Nov, 2021 I think today's learn something every day is going to be to take this Apple II Barnsley Fern (sped up) and port it to a #commodore
15 Nov, 2021 What? I'm just sitting here thinking about how to best do recursive backtracking in BASIC... #commodore
13 Nov, 2021 I’ve had a train under our tree for 20 years. Caleb is moving to Texas right after the holidays so it seemed like a good idea to get him his own so he can start his own traditions. We happen to have two trees this year so…
13 Nov, 2021 Rainbow on the runway this morning
11 Nov, 2021 I do this same walk loop every weekday I work from home. Typically after lunch. It’s 3.26 miles. Just a couple shots from today as the leaves are really starting to turn now.
11 Nov, 2021 I have hunted for and acquired a lot of wonderful vintage technology pieces over the last year. This is easily my favorite of them. I use it every single day. 1962 was a good year for these.
09 Nov, 2021 What the hell? Did they use MT RAM? Another thing I really wish I hadn’t spent money on this year. Arg.
09 Nov, 2021 The amateur mathematician in me has to believe that there’s an excellent chance that I’m the only person on the planet doing #NaNoWriMo21 on a Commodore Plus/4. Living dangerously:)
08 Nov, 2021 Doing some AT backpacking this week. This is what the vertical looks like in the section we'll be on ;-) It's brutal #commodore
08 Nov, 2021 With very little help from me, young guy I'm tutoring in math took this C64 book listing he found and "ported" it to his VIC-20 including sound. Pretty soon he wont need me. Awesome sauce. #commodore
08 Nov, 2021 Well @8BitShowAndTell I finally found my original C64 Pac-Man cartridge. Can confirm it has that same title screen bug. I did find one online that someone fixed. Well at least they fixed the fruit anyway. Put that version on my UltimateII+ #commodore
08 Nov, 2021 A young person asked me to help him port this to the VIC-20 so he can play it. I'm aware of a port already, but if we actually do the port together there's more opportunity to learn so we're gonna do that. #commodore
06 Nov, 2021 Very happy with progress this morning. So good to be back at this. Tail is back on it, closer to being permanently mounted. That skin on the front is going to need a fair amount of trimming next. #myzenith750
06 Nov, 2021 Was making a plaque on the CNC for my “wall of shame” to showcase stuff I’ve screwed up on this plane build. How’s setting the depth incorrectly and slamming the router head into it for irony? Scratch one plaque and expensive bit. Pro Tip: Screwing up is just learning.
06 Nov, 2021 Today is the first of 9 days off in a row for me. Despite the fact that it’s still dark out and 43 degrees (F) inside the hangar, gonna route some fuel and brake lines. #myzenith750
05 Nov, 2021 On a tip from @NoelsRetroLab I found these ROM adapter boards. Picked @PCBWay to manufacture 10 of them to me. I'm still blown away that they can make these and have them at my front door all the way to the US in 6 days. Incredible.
05 Nov, 2021 This morning's "learn something every day" is some polar plotting. R=1+2*COS(Z), pretty neat patterns from this one #commodore #c64
04 Nov, 2021 I love these equation plots. A little lunchtime fun today to relax. This one only took 16 minutes to render, faster than I anticipated. #commodore #c64
04 Nov, 2021 Anyone aware of a scan of this book online? I see some others by him, but not this one. I just copied the Floppy to a disk image. Could scan it easily since it’s spiral bound. #commodore
04 Nov, 2021 Since I was scolded for taking out the Plus/4 yesterday, I figured I might as well fully get in trouble by powering it on and having it do something. #commodore
03 Nov, 2021 Another @8BitShowAndTell book recommendation arrived today. This will be a fun one.
02 Nov, 2021 The road to our house… At some point recently I had realized I have everything I dreamed about 15 years ago. I wonder what our next adventure will be.
01 Nov, 2021 Afternoon walk is starting to feel like November.
01 Nov, 2021 Well, it’s a good start. Just need to do that 29 more times. It’s not even 7am #NaNoWriMo
29 Oct, 2021 Same Sierpiński's Carpet program but with PETSCII instead of graphics. This is a job for a PET! (2x speed) #commodore #PETober
29 Oct, 2021 Sierpiński carpet on the Apple IIe took 3 1/2 hours. Here sped up A LOT. Machine language version is next and should be WAAY faster #appleii
28 Oct, 2021 I’m doing #NaNoWriMo for sure, but looking for another thing in November to also dig deep on. I’m thinking about mashing these two concepts.
28 Oct, 2021 I LOVED @Ayliean's Tower of Hanoi video on @numberphile this week. I wanted to try it with some "soothing" sounds from the 80s with the SID from a Commodore 64 #commodore #c64 (sound on!)
27 Oct, 2021 Warranties are for losers.
26 Oct, 2021 I just picked up this 386 laptop from a guy up the road from me. New in the box. I literally cut the plastic from the factory on it
25 Oct, 2021 TI-81 Screen pixel issue was a manageable repair. Took just a couple minutes. Reflowed the solder on all of the ribbon cables with the hot air station. She's all set for 30 more years of mathing.
25 Oct, 2021 Well this is sad. My TI-81 has developed a column of dead pixels. I wonder if I can replace the LCD.
23 Oct, 2021 Neither my son or the dog care that it’s way too cold to be in the river today.
20 Oct, 2021 A little lunchtime fun: I have my Commodore PET Tic-Tac-Toe "AI" playing against itself with about a 95% tie rate. A couple more tweaks and I think I can get it to 100%. #PETober #commodore
19 Oct, 2021 Started wearing a 30 pound weight vest on my daily lunchtime hike. Feels really good. Also I think this is the longest my hair has been since 1992.
18 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper with the PET day 1(take 2): I stand corrected, the COMMODORE PET is a graphics powerhouse. Better graphics than any other computer invented since 1977. #commodore #PETober
18 Oct, 2021 Have had a great week with the Atari 800XL and then another with the VIC20. This week my choices are:
17 Oct, 2021 You know the boat electrical repairs are getting serious when the bench power supply gets moved in.
17 Oct, 2021 Wrapping up a week with the VIC: Unexpanded VIC with a keyboard version of Breakout. Getting a fair amount of help from machine language here, but it's a very playable (and simple to code/understand) version. LOVED this week with the VIC and appreciate it even more! #VICtober
16 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper with the VIC-20 day 6: Pretty much the best graphics of any computer ever made. #VICtober
15 Oct, 2021 I’m thinking seriously about doing #nanowrimo2021 with ONLY these tools
15 Oct, 2021 Got an Apple II 80 col/64k expansion card failing a RAM diagnostic. I have at least 4 testers for this type of RAM and plenty of spares.
15 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper with the VIC-20 day 5: Smooth scrolling isn't too hard. Getting close to the end of my week with the VIC and I appreciate it even more than I did when I started. #VICtober
14 Oct, 2021 10 minute lunch break "learn something": More of the "AI" book - Breadth first searches are nice and zippy. Apple IIe for this one
14 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper with the VIC-20 day 4: The VIC-20 is a graphics powerhouse ;-) #VICtober
13 Oct, 2021 On today's episode of stupid races between old computery things: A brute force tree solver on a Commodore 128 in 80 column mode vs a VIC-20. The 128 is easier to visualize what it's doing, but as expected, WAY slower. #commodore #VICtober
13 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper with the VIC-20 day 3: While not as visually interesting, implementing tree searches to solve shortest path problems is fun for my brain, just maybe not your eyeballs. #VICtober
13 Oct, 2021 I figured out the problem with my MiniPET/SD card access. This connector is already not making good contact. Going to work on a way to extend the base of my setup so that it’s not just hanging off the end. Or maybe just put feet on it. #commodore
12 Oct, 2021 This is a REALLY excellent book. I’ve been going through this a chapter at a time. Very little changes to get the code to work on Commodore machines too although I’ve mostly been using the Apple IIe. Great primer to modern AI techniques if you can believe that. I give it an 11/10
12 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper with the VIC-20 day 2: Some people say the VIC is underpowered and you can't do interesting things with just a couple k of RAM. Whatever slackers! #VICtober #commodore
11 Oct, 2021 For those who say "3583 bytes isn't enough to do anything useful", a decent cipher fits with 58 whole bytes free. Take that!
11 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper with the VIC-20: Starting the week finishing up the VIC Cipher on an unexpanded VIC. It's not fast, but it's fast enough to be useful. One of the few of these I've done that's 100% in BASIC #commodore
10 Oct, 2021 Since my MiniPET is down I’m shifting gears this week. This is one of my favorites anyway so I’m already looking forward to it.
10 Oct, 2021 Working on an old boat today. Just pulled these off of the deep cycle battery. Both red. One was on the positive and one was on the negative. They run under the floor… and the wire chasing begins because the colors sure aren’t right and they aren’t labeled.
09 Oct, 2021 This is week’s books to devour. Really looking forward to these.
09 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper - PET: Cramming code into single lines isn't just for Perl programmers. Here are two one-line subroutines to convert hex to decimal and back. Hint: you have to use the shortened keywords to get them to fit in 80 columns #PETober #commodore
08 Oct, 2021 A week diving deeper with the PET: Since I have a fair amount of Commodore experience, seemed prudent to think about and work on text screen program UI concepts. A loan calculator is even a useful one to have on disk in 2021. #PETober #commodore
08 Oct, 2021 Some thoughts on my week of "diving deeper" with the Atari 800XL.
07 Oct, 2021 New to me 1962 Olympia SM7. It’s in amazing shape. #lessfeaturesplease
07 Oct, 2021 My week with the Atari 800XL is over. I’m writing up my thoughts and some things I learned. In the meantime, this one is next. #octaci #PETober
06 Oct, 2021 Was just thinking “it’s 3pm and I’ve been super productive today, I wonder why…”. Oh right, that’s why.
06 Oct, 2021 Diving into Atari 8 Bit: Horizontal movement is pretty straightforward. Vertical is a little more tricky. Using an ML program and calling it via USR() makes it MUCH faster. Still having fun(ish). #octari
06 Oct, 2021 Two of my favorite distraction free productivity tools
06 Oct, 2021 This chip is still on my desk. Even though I’m one of the people who has the thermal printer it goes in. The mystery was cooler than the reality. #commodore
05 Oct, 2021 Diving into Atari 8 Bit: XIO is completely new to me. Combined with joystick inputs to draw a "road". Pretty fun. #octari
05 Oct, 2021 Diving into Atari 8 Bit: More graphics learning and using TRAP which is very nice. Pretty impressed at how well graphics work even in BASIC. #octari
04 Oct, 2021 Diving into Atari 8 Bit: I'm actually off today, but always 5 minutes to learn something. Quick color and plotting. Atari BASIC makes this stuff really easy. #octari
03 Oct, 2021 Diving into Atari 8 Bit: Getting a handle on CTIA chip capabilities. Shading is a pretty cool feature #octari
02 Oct, 2021 Diving into Atari 8 Bit: Reading joysticks is really easy, and Atari BASIC is good enough to make joystick movements smooth in BASIC. Neato #octari
01 Oct, 2021 A little lunchtime fun: revisiting this old maze listing to see if we can get it to be just a little more random. Atari BASIC sure is slow #octari
29 Sep, 2021 The 3.10a Firmware update for the Ultimate II+ seems to have resolved my long time C128 disk access errors on this particular machine. Neato. #commodore
29 Sep, 2021 This perfectly sums up what my study focus for October will be.
28 Sep, 2021 Test fitting the instrument panel trays. I may have found an actual use for TheC64 Mini. #commodore
27 Sep, 2021 Floppy emulator arrived today for the Apple II. Plug it in, turn it on. Works. Too easy.
27 Sep, 2021 In today’s episode of “stupid races between old computery things”: Apple IIe (128k RAM) vs unexpanded VIC-20 with a boring version of the 100 doors problem. Almost identical performance since they have the same processor running a very similar clock speeds. #commodore #apple
27 Sep, 2021 Here’s what the Apple II external power supply installation looks like. It’s dramatically cooler inside the case now and no Rifa caps to explode. Even still works
26 Sep, 2021 Spent most of the afternoon chopping wood. Time to move to figuring out how to get this Gotek floppy emulator into my Osborne 1.
25 Sep, 2021 Mead I start today will be ready in April. Always plan ahead.
25 Sep, 2021 A bunch of people have asked about my future proofing of the Apple IIe. The core of my strategy is this externally power supply that replaces the troublesome internal unit completely. Not “authentic” but it will keep a ton of heat away from the rest of the machine
24 Sep, 2021 Always loved a green phosphor monitor for the PET. Took a risk of tearing apart the universe by putting my MiniPET on an Apple monitor. Seems like we’re all still here so far. #apple #commodore #10Print
23 Sep, 2021 Well I’m trying not to be disappointed that it works. I do enjoy fixing them. But I love that I have this in my collection now. #10print
23 Sep, 2021 I was lightly scolded by @8BitShowAndTell for learning LISP on a machine with a lot of bits so this morning I've shifted back to a machine with the proper number ;-) #commodore
22 Sep, 2021 This morning's "learn something new every day" I'm learning a LISP dialect... finally. I've never been cool enough to learn LISP, but I can fake being cool
20 Sep, 2021 Some of my notebooks from 1993-2008 or so when I made the mistake of switching to mostly digital. 20 years from now I’ll bet you would be glad your notes/thoughts/journal today was on paper. Ask me how I know.
20 Sep, 2021 10 Minute Lunch break progress: I have this dumb idea to do a simple (insecure) blockchain as a teaching tool. My first crack at it is sorta working already ;-) #commodore
18 Sep, 2021 For a long time I’ve averaged reading two books a week. It’s almost as fun figuring out what to read next as it is actually reading. This next week will be:
18 Sep, 2021 Finally bottled the rest of the first batch of this winter’s mead. This is about 1/3 of the batch and will age until about November. It will mellow out a lot by then and the cloudiness will be gone. Two more 3 gallon batches are a month behind and still fermenting.
17 Sep, 2021 Doing a little French Broad River Kayaking with Julie today. Not too shabby
16 Sep, 2021 What kind of music do you guys like? All the kinds. Julie’s thrift store finds today fit right in
15 Sep, 2021 This socket is going to have to go. This is working its way out when it gets warm. #commodore
15 Sep, 2021 It’s #septandy day 15. I give up.
14 Sep, 2021 This keyboard layout is the recipient of a lot of criticism. If you use it for a while a lot of it actually makes perfect sense. #commodore
14 Sep, 2021 Is it #Septandy day 14 or only 16 more days with Tandy machines? I'm trying to like them… they are like a, uh, warm blanket. Yeah, that's it.
13 Sep, 2021 The Munsters are FAR superior to the Adam’s Family.
13 Sep, 2021 My number one productivity technology for creative work
13 Sep, 2021 It’s #septandy day 13… wondering a little if I can do this for 17 more days. The blue and white are pretty okay, why aren’t those the default colors? #mysteriesoftheuniverse
12 Sep, 2021 On #Septandy day 12 I’m trying unsuccessfully to tweak the video to make it more readable. Toxic green just doesn’t work that well.
11 Sep, 2021 Tonight’s double feature.
11 Sep, 2021 Playing around with colors for the Zenith and at the moment leaning towards an Army Jeep Green
11 Sep, 2021 The actual building is gone now, but I was in my office on the 10th floor facing south in the red circle on the phone with my wife.
11 Sep, 2021 This is a fascinating feat of engineering
11 Sep, 2021 On #Septandy day 11, I need a sanity break #commodore
10 Sep, 2021 We had a very late frost so our favorite orchard only had a 25% yield this year. We went out to support them and with much standing on our toes found more than a few.
10 Sep, 2021 It's #Septandy day 10. Today's program is a "timebomb" (with sound effects). Feels pretty timely for some reason.
09 Sep, 2021 Super speedy delivery from Alissa at Viking Aircraft. They just started making these instrument mounting trays and saved me a ton of time getting them pre made from them. Excellent quality as always from them.
09 Sep, 2021 One of my first "real" programs was a blackjack game I made in BASIC on a Sharp 9300 calculator to impress my Adv. Algebra teacher. Since it's #septandy day 9, here's a slot machine on a "Tandy" PC-4
08 Sep, 2021 For #septandy day 8, learning GET and PUT in Coco BASIC which I'm not too familiar with. This is better than some of the generative art I've seen for many dollars on the NFT sites. If I do dumb things and "secure it" as "one of a kind" with a blockchain am I doing it right?
07 Sep, 2021 On #Septandy Day 7 future value of investment planning in Toxic green is where it's at
06 Sep, 2021 For #Septandy day 6: I'll bet there's an untapped market for abstract art with an #nft on 8-bit computers. Not that the Coco would be my first choice for this, but since I'm keeping with the #Septandy theme…
05 Sep, 2021 Starting to have that fall feel in here. Early morning wing root section work. The answer to when will the plane be done: when there are no more things left on the todo list.
05 Sep, 2021 So many great resources for learning how to do more with retro computers. My #Septandy day 5 choices
04 Sep, 2021 For #septandy day 4, I did the beloved 10 PRINT program. The Color Computer’s slash and backslash characters are a 5 × 7 region in a larger box of 8 × 12. It’s not a great character set to demonstrate this as a random “maze” or even really a clear connected pattern. Still fun.
03 Sep, 2021 In today's episode of "Stupid races between old computery things", we have a #Septandy day 3 duo of a Coco2 with and without extended BASIC vs a VIC-20. Curiously Color BASIC is missing the exponent function so we had to implement it. Will #commodore win?
02 Sep, 2021 The PC-4 is a neat little handheld, but it isn't going to win any speed competitions. Simple "benchmark" on my Coco2 takes 39 seconds. Exact same code on the PC-4 took 3:35. But BASIC in your pocket is pretty nifty! #Septandy
01 Sep, 2021 It's September 1st. Getting the #Septandy train rolling. All aboard!
31 Aug, 2021 Well, thanks to @8BitShowAndTell this is on my VIC-20 today. Follow him on the YouTubes for Gorf goodness in a couple days (or on Patreon for sooner). All the cool kids are doing it.
30 Aug, 2021 This evening I’m exploring the first CAD software I ever used seriously. Where’s a light pen when you need it?
29 Aug, 2021 Well I know what I’m adding to my Christmas list.
28 Aug, 2021 Time to up my game. I own a nice collection of various knives but not a proper bowie knife. Never leave home without it.
28 Aug, 2021 Gonna try to get through both of these this week.
26 Aug, 2021 Spent time dodging thunderstorms today. This was the one clearing that was long enough to get a shot of.
25 Aug, 2021 Early morning summer departures means bugs on the windshield.
24 Aug, 2021 Interesting that @VansAircraft and @SonexAircraft are working on high wing models. Apparently I missed some industry trend memo somewhere.
23 Aug, 2021 bow chica bow wow
22 Aug, 2021 Haven’t been flying much but we kicked off the rust for a couple minutes this morning after almost finishing the flaps on the zenith. Was nice to have my buddy Simon help with the building this morning.
20 Aug, 2021 I’m short a transistor to do a composite MOD on this Atari VCS/2600 so it’s the ol route the RF through a VCR trick for now #atari
20 Aug, 2021 Since I only eat once a day now, I had time to recap and heat sync an Atari 800 during lunch. Working like a champ
20 Aug, 2021 This morning the "learn something every day" was a maze walker in BASIC
18 Aug, 2021 The Selectric II restoration was a snap. About an hour, and it’s working like a champ. It’s built like a tank and probably has 100 years of life left in it. It’ll take me a little bit to get fast on it, but that sound is just so satisfying.
18 Aug, 2021 Lunchtime fun "for science". I was playing with Atari Turbo-BASIC XL the 800XL and couldn't resist doing the same tests on a VIC-20.
17 Aug, 2021 When someone asks why you are doing so and so thing... the answer is ALWAYS "for science".
17 Aug, 2021 My next restoration project isn’t a vintage computer, but it counts as vintage. Always wanted a Selectric. Mechanical pencil for scale. It’s huge.
17 Aug, 2021 Autobiographies
16 Aug, 2021 The other book I finished last week was Howard Scott Warshaw's. He contends that most people who say that E.T. is "The Worst Game of All Time" have probably not even played it. I have it, have played it, AND I don't think it's even close to the worst game of "All time".
16 Aug, 2021 Really enjoyed the 10PRINT book this past weekend. Who knew there were at least a couple hundred pages of things to talk about from just one line of code? For fun, during lunch today, I looked at many of the variations of it.
16 Aug, 2021 I’m probably going to hell for this
15 Aug, 2021 New life skill for me: yellow jacket nest removal. They sure are mean.
15 Aug, 2021 For the most part I’ve been sticking pretty close to the plans. Today’s deviation was to add some stiffening L angles to these pulleys. Once this section is riveted they’ll be hard to access and I didn’t like the amount of skin flex I was seeing.
15 Aug, 2021 Working on flight controls again before it gets too hot to be in here today.
14 Aug, 2021 While waiting on my date I worked on the next part of Nick Hampshire's VIC Graphics book. Multi Colored "fan".
14 Aug, 2021 I didn’t go to Blackhat this year. A friend brought this back with her for me. If I had known this sort of thing would be there I definitely would have made the trip :)
13 Aug, 2021 This morning's quick "learn something new every day": Been going through Nick Hampshire's VIC-20 books. 2nd books is on graphics. #commodore
12 Aug, 2021 Lunch shenanigans: Now I'm on a quest to find the slowest machine I have that will run this "benchmark" (I call it the @NoelsRetroLab benchmark). The PC-4 is the current leader.
11 Aug, 2021 Installed BreakIntoProg's BBC BASIC Port to the CERBERUS 2080. On the Z80 at 8Mhz it runs this quick benchmark in around 11 seconds. Pretty neat.
11 Aug, 2021 Trying something different on my Atari 800XL this week. The keyboard on the top has switches instead of a membrane. First time all of my keys have reliably worked :) #atari
05 Aug, 2021 Finished the 100 door problem on a bunch of systems. Atari 800XL, Cerberus 2080, VIC-20, PET, Color Maximite
03 Aug, 2021 Last of the 10 machines in the 100 door demo is CERBERUS. Is unfinished. Last because it's the hardest to do (for me). It's WAY too fast for the visual demo. Wasting a couple million clock cycles. Needs the result output and custom characters to be finished. Happy with progress
03 Aug, 2021 Taking a break from the cipher series for a bit. This weeks article will be on the 100 door problem done on 10 different systems. Wouldn’t be complete without a calculator in the mix would it? (PS, the VIC-20 is my favorite solution set so far). Also, TI-84’s BASIC is really fast
03 Aug, 2021 Old computers make good teaching tools in part because you see huge efficiency gains when changing your approach. Reducing your execution time from 30 minutes to 5 minutes is more satisfying than .003 seconds to .0003 seconds a modern system.
03 Aug, 2021 I’m on the prowl for a 386 desktop. Less bells and whistles the better.
02 Aug, 2021 Took months of patience but I finally picked up a copy of this book for a price that wasn’t highway robbery
02 Aug, 2021 Afternoon 10 minute break noodle: Atari BASIC is not my favorite but it works
02 Aug, 2021 10 minute lunchtime noodle: Taking a quick initial swing at @somacdivad's challenge this week on a VIC-20. Looks like I'll have to do the extra credit part now.
01 Aug, 2021 Since we seem to be on an early 80s book kick, my favorite from this time period is “Once Upon Atari”. Fascinating story and better writing than most small run books, most which could REALLY use an editors red pen.
01 Aug, 2021 Installing the elevator pulleys this morning. It’s a measure twice cut once kinda deal. Really not something I want to have misaligned. It was more like a measure 2^8 and cut once kinda deal. The other one is inside and upside down and required some gymnastics on my part.
01 Aug, 2021 Pre dawn tail work. Questioning my decision to be on a ladder before sunrise ;)
31 Jul, 2021 Waiting for my date to be ready gave me a few minutes on the PET. If you take two @8BitShowAndTell videos and mash them together... (this is Robin's game, not mine)
31 Jul, 2021 Finished @BilHerd’s book in one sitting. Very cool to see many of these stories in one place.
30 Jul, 2021 This such a flawed and also beautiful piece of hardware. I love everything about it
29 Jul, 2021 Turns out direct sunlight works. This is before and after on the Plus/4 Keyboard after 4 hours. AirPods for color comparison with an actual white.
29 Jul, 2021 On the left is a flawed but decent product I’ve used every day for three years. On the right is the worst product “upgrade” I’ve ever purchased. I can’t believe how they made it so dramatically worse in every way.
28 Jul, 2021 I have bitten off more than I can chew with this Maze article I've been working on for a week. It's stopped being fun which means it's time to shelve it. This morning, it's a blank slate for me.
27 Jul, 2021 Ported the Maze code to the CERBERUS 2080. Just like the Commodore Assembly version the maze is created instantly and the ball is too fast to see. Have to waste some cycles for the final article on this so we can see it. No SID here, so had to do an LFSR for random numbers ;-)
27 Jul, 2021 Ported the maze program to assembly this morning (you know, learn something every day). It's slightly faster, as in the screen capture device isn't even picking up the ball flying around ;-)
26 Jul, 2021 On today's episode of "Stupid races between old computery things" we have a Commodore PET vs an Atari 400 doing the maze program from Compute! December 1981. The program was written for these machines, so it's a fair "fight".
25 Jul, 2021 I’m channeling my inner @8BitShowAndTell and fixing a bug in a listing in Compute! from Dec 1981. Atari version does not work as listed in the mag. My fix is on line 1020 here
24 Jul, 2021 The MiniPET does pretty well with the screen capture. I originally wrote this for the VIC-20 because you know, VIC cipher on a VIC... but I like using my own software for testing. A lot of people ask about the "chicklet" keyboard and I actually kinda like it
23 Jul, 2021 Weekend side project is learning Atari 8 bit disk stuff with my new SDrive.
22 Jul, 2021 I needed a change of scenery today. Was getting grumpy in my “office”
21 Jul, 2021 When you don’t have a spare DIN connector to test out a board sometimes improvisation is more fun.
21 Jul, 2021 New to me Atari 800XL. It was listed "untested", which to me means "cheap and almost certainly repairable".
21 Jul, 2021 Today’s learn something new every day is a deep dive into cellular automaton.
20 Jul, 2021 Steak and eggs for dinner, killer workout, and recapped/reassembled the Atari 400. Not too shabby.
19 Jul, 2021 I created a brute force version on a Commodore that's truly horrible, but it does work. Had to change the states to integers and borders to letters because of my system limitations. I'll get it in Github tonightish
19 Jul, 2021 I can walk to trout streams and do often. First cast. He's a little too small so he's going back to grow up.
17 Jul, 2021 Well I was shooting for completing it in a week. Or less than 24 hours. One of those. Works great @futurewas8bit #commodore
17 Jul, 2021 Still need to do the case and the key caps but I couldn’t resist trying a first boot of the MiniPET 40/80. So great. #commodore
17 Jul, 2021 This would be fine.
17 Jul, 2021 I made a clean spot. Sigh, now I’m going to have to do the whole thing.
16 Jul, 2021 It’s MiniPET 40/80 day. The first 10 are numbered and I have number 3! Pretty neat. These switches are gonna take quite a while to assemble and solder. As usual, fantastic packaging by @futurewas8bit I’ve been looking forward to assembling this for quite a while. #commodore
16 Jul, 2021 Today’s “learn something new every day” is pretty challenging.
15 Jul, 2021 Delivery from @FW4511 in the UK today. Thanks!
15 Jul, 2021 Just trying out my dual video capture. Might as well have a couple of them race. Atari 400 vs VIC-20 same program. Curious that the Atari has the same processor clocked higher but is slower in this version of BASIC. It sure was harder to type on versus the VIC. #commodore #Atari
14 Jul, 2021 SVideo out on the Atari 400. Have to hold the cartridge port switch down when it’s out of the case to get it to boot but it’s working. #atari
13 Jul, 2021 Finally have a reason to use my iPad.
12 Jul, 2021 10 minute lunchbreak progress: Porting an old PET maze routine to the VIC-20 and Atari 400 for a project (also just for science).
11 Jul, 2021 VickyTwenty ended up being two things: The unsoldered pin on the character rom that was only making contact sometimes, and it turns out that the socket under the VIC was cracked. Not in love with these precision sockets, many chips fit loose. May have to change brands
11 Jul, 2021 Switching gears. My first dive into a 400.
11 Jul, 2021 Unity…
11 Jul, 2021 Troubleshooting a VIC-20 with a strange color memory issue. Is working other than this. I've swapped all 5 RAM chips.
09 Jul, 2021 This is the first "real" video out of my VickyTwenty. I used a video mod board to get S-Video out on it.
08 Jul, 2021 Parts order from retro8bitshop came today for my 250407 replica. I may start this one next depending on if/when the MiniPET 40/80 ever ships.
07 Jul, 2021 New to me Atari Tank. Hey, at least I’m keeping it 6502 in the house right?
07 Jul, 2021 Finally getting to the Romulator in a little bit. I'm thinking a VIC-20 will be the target for it tonight for first tests
05 Jul, 2021 Helping some students with math contests and they're having trouble visualizing cellular automation (Rule 30 in this case). Doing it nice and slow with a color change on the row being worked on was the trick. Old computers are still valuable teaching tools
05 Jul, 2021 I’ve taken a long break from this project but it’s time to get back to it. #myzenith750
02 Jul, 2021 I almost never get landing shots because... well kinda busy. It's nice when someone is sitting in front and takes them for me ;-)
01 Jul, 2021 I love that someone else is hacking the CERBERUS 2080 bios. Working on some hacks to mine already. Too fun
01 Jul, 2021 Definitely my strangest flight path to date. Had us doing circles for weather for about 45 minutes
30 Jun, 2021 Hey it even works. I’ve got a bad 6522 so I ordered those WD “modern” replacements. It boots to a cart just fine without the one so I suspect that’s the whole of the problem. If not, VIC-20s are a joy to troubleshoot. My third favorite computer of all time.
29 Jun, 2021 I find this sort of evening activity pretty relaxing. #commodore
28 Jun, 2021 The Mechboard64 ended up in the Ultimate after much deliberation on my part. It's rock solid and I'm very happy with it. The keyboard it replaced is in good shape and will live on in the VickyTwenty.
28 Jun, 2021 Actually getting back on track with ciphers on the C64 this evening, but during my lunch I just wanted to make sure I could do a 3 line assembly program on the CERBERUS. Easy enough, but the removing SD card every time to make changes is gonna get old. Time to extend this thing!
27 Jun, 2021 Patience and troubleshooting prevails! First boot of my CERBERUS 2080!!! Woot!!
25 Jun, 2021 Friday night bootloader burning. It’s wild around here
25 Jun, 2021 Since I'm waiting on 4 components that weigh a total of about .1 ounce for the Cerberus, I figure my lunch break can be used to make progress on one of my other 12 million boards to build. VickyTwenty, you're next
23 Jun, 2021 New to me TRS-80 PC-4. More things to do dumb races against the VIC-20
22 Jun, 2021 Who wants an old computer that looks new? Pre distressed jeans are a thing right? So starting next week I’ll be offering a product called “retro yellow”. I think it’ll be HUGE!!
22 Jun, 2021 Today on “dumb calculator races vs the VIC-20 I changed this to repeat 10 times for better comparison. A PAL VIC20 beats the TI-81 (z80 running at 2Mhz) by about 10%. A screen blanked NTSC C64 (POKE53265,PEEK(53265)AND239) is neck and neck with the calculator. #commodore
22 Jun, 2021 The mystery of the VIC-42 chip is much less interesting than I hoped. I happen to have an Alphacom VP42 printer. It has the chip in it
21 Jun, 2021 This week on “dumb calculator races vs the VIC-20” we add the TI-81. Its z80 processor is a much more formidable opponent than the Sharp 9300 from the same period.
21 Jun, 2021 Evening CERBERUS progress. Got all 56 10k Resistors done. I'll wrap up the soldering tomorrow with the taller components with the exception of a transistor I had to order. Still might be working by the weekend if I don't screw anything up.
21 Jun, 2021 And in other news, I bought a working working Plus/4. For now. I've doomed it by posting it here.
21 Jun, 2021 Lunchtime project... Composite video mod on my Coco2. I didn't even blow it up or anything. Haven't used this in many many years, the green is just as horrible as I remember ;-)
20 Jun, 2021 I started flying too late to have been required to use one of these. Modern equivalents are much faster, but I did learn how to use it. I love the big picture understanding of how things work in relationship with each other that only analog tools can reveal.
19 Jun, 2021 New to me UNTESTED Plus/4. Now those are some yellowed keys!
19 Jun, 2021 Morning progress. Couple hundred pins soldered. Not hard, but the pads are tiny so it requires some patience. All of the sockets are done.
17 Jun, 2021 As some have pointed out, the print routines are probably VERY slow on the calculator. I took them out and made the VIC code the same as what's on the calculator as close as I could. VIC-20 is still faster. Pretty fun. Next up, head to head with TI-81
16 Jun, 2021 What do you do when you have a bunch of 25-35 year old calculators than can run BASIC? I know what I'd do, I'd race them with a 40 year old computer. They have pretty similar RAM, but the VIC-20 beats a Sharp 9300c from 1991 easily #commodore
16 Jun, 2021 It’s 72F and low humidity today. Moving my office to the front porch.
16 Jun, 2021 My morning routine is to work out and then spend 15 minutes learning something new. This morning it's @TechTinkering 's tutorial on using screen memory as extra storage to do the 100 door problem on unexpanded VIC-20s. Good stuff.
15 Jun, 2021 The 250407 Replica by @bwack77 arrived today. It's amazing. I now have a trifecta AND the MiniPET 40/80 hasn't even shipped yet. This is gonna be A LOT of soldering...
15 Jun, 2021 Pro tip: AirPods are not machine washable. Sigh.
14 Jun, 2021 When you put VIC-20 CR machines back together, you have to keep the bottom RF shield because it helps with mounting. They are always terribly rusty so I paint them. Apparently my paint supplies are low and I have... white. No one is gonna see it anyway so white it is.
14 Jun, 2021 I’m not huge on multi tasking, but recapping a board during a conference call worked for my brain.
13 Jun, 2021 Oh yeah! VIC cipher decryption on an unexpanded VIC-20 is finally working! This was a lot harder than the encryption part. Now we work on cracking it
13 Jun, 2021 Well I have one of these mystery VIC-42 chips and it doesn't test "good" as a VIC or VICII on the backbit. I think this might be something we just have to make up a story about. "There I was, wire tying a Commodore 264, when I was attacked by a Spectrum…"
13 Jun, 2021 Mechboard64 is almost done. Need to print the key cap adapters and bend some piano wire. #commodore
12 Jun, 2021 I was an AT in the Navy which required extensive color blindness testing. But these things are practically impossible…
12 Jun, 2021 Rainy weekend project number 3. Let’s call this one “preparing for winter”.
11 Jun, 2021 Testing a new video capture device on the VIC-20s. Only one of them is good enough to probably be post-able. Something to work on
11 Jun, 2021 Rainy weekend project number 2
08 Jun, 2021 Going easy on myself with the next in the crypto series since I wanted to do a couple of these on the VIC-20 in Assembly which is new for me. Fibonacci in was simple enough. Now to do a Lagged Fibonacci.
07 Jun, 2021 10 Second review of this drop in RAM replacement for your 128: Works like a charm. If your RAM is already socketed installation is 4 seconds. One more future proofed item in the bag.
07 Jun, 2021 This sums up my retro theme for June 2021 #commodore
04 Jun, 2021 Interesting, removing this resistor and adding a 220uF cap across these two lines DRAMATICALLY improved this PAL VIC-20's picture. It's hard to tell from a photo of a screen, but this looks excellent IRL. Not 100% sure why this works...
03 Jun, 2021 10 minute lunch break progress: I think I’ve found a VIC 20 Assembler that fits my brain. Flashing screen warning.
03 Jun, 2021 More than one person gave me a hard time about using Monte Carlo to test my PRNG without a visual. Okay, here’s a squished PAL VIC circle and point plot of it :)
02 Jun, 2021 Why are PAL VIC-20 (CR) video output circuits wired like the left and NTSC like on the right?
02 Jun, 2021 Before morning workout progress: This is the last of these before the refactor to do large sets on an unexpanded VIC-20. This one cheats and uses a 128 to do 30k DIMs. #commodore
01 Jun, 2021 SUPER happy with this so far. Generating 100 random mod 256 integers with a Lagged Fibonacci Sequence, then test the distribution for randomness-Monte Carlo value for pi (is it in the circle?) on an unexpanded VIC 20 #commodore #embracecontraints
01 Jun, 2021 Well, that random distribution count really sucks. Gonna have to work on this algorithm a lot more… In 10000 iterations, 1 came up 358 times and 2 came up 1669 times. Bleh.
01 Jun, 2021 Sometimes during conference calls I do weird things.You know, like write a Lagged Fibonacci Generator (PRNG) on a VIC 20...
31 May, 2021 Headed out for a holiday cookout, but while I'm waiting for everyone... I need top 500, 1000,10k and 50k English word files in SEQ files. Was simple enough
29 May, 2021 I’ve read a lot of marginal documentation over the years. This one is in the bottom 5 of all time. I’ve read it twice and I still don’t know how to do anything with it.
28 May, 2021 Done a fair amount of Commodore Assembly now but never on the VIC 20. No time like the present. Seems simple enough but I’m going to have to find a decent editor, the monitor method only works so long.
28 May, 2021 Another new to me VIC 20 “untested” and cheap. Looks good, packed well and passes tests. Sweet.
28 May, 2021 Back to implementing Enigma. These rings are obviously horizontal for testing, but top down they are left, middle and right. Middle should rotate when right(bottom) gets to V (the "notch") and top when middle gets to E. Making progress...
28 May, 2021 I'm doing a Pi computation demo over the weekend for some young people and want to do a couple on Vintage machines. Then I remembered that @8BitShowAndTell did one with Logo graphically. Perfect, I shall borrow (steal) Robin's demo as well.
28 May, 2021 Just renewed my HAM radio license. N4LNX lives on for another 10 years ;-)
27 May, 2021 Earlier today I was annoyed when my truck’s software served me a damn ad. Then I remembered the flier in Pirates Cove from 1980. I guess this isn’t a terribly new idea. Be careful Chevy, or I’ll replace that software with a VIC 20
27 May, 2021 This little bastard was causing all kinds of gremlins to intermittently appear. Crazy how much better things run if the power into the board is clean.
26 May, 2021 Chased down a VIC-20 flickering screen for quite some time. Came down to this solder joint being weak. Reflowed it and all better
26 May, 2021 Finally properly badged. This is easily my favorite piece of “modern” hardware
26 May, 2021 Phew, this board is a mess. 3 bodges so far and here are the next 4.
26 May, 2021 Such a great series. I wish I had read these back then, but there’s no time like the present.
22 May, 2021 Pretty good lake view in the distance from our hotel room this weekend.
20 May, 2021 Here's a fun one. Another friend brought over a 128. It started up but it was acting really strange. Probed a couple voltages and they came in at 4.1... Deoxit in the power switch and its fixed. I'm basically a wizard.
20 May, 2021 Actually really busy with day job today, but had a 10 minute break and decided to put a 128 back together. I spent more than a minute scratching my head on a U4 failure message. Maybe I no fix hardware today huh? Sheesh
20 May, 2021 Morning workout math:
20 May, 2021 My CERBERUS 2080 Boards came today from @JLCPCB and look great. A couple of these chips are backordered but I'm really looking forward to getting this working. I had to order 5...
19 May, 2021 I am looking for a manual or documentation for Vickit 4+5 on the @futurewas8bit Penultimate cart. Anyone have it handy? #commodore
18 May, 2021 Working on the Retro pinout project a little at a time. 128 pins captured and about 4500 to go. Thanks to all who have offered to help so far.
18 May, 2021 My new open source project: Collecting scope outputs on every IC on retro computer boards. I'll need lots of help from the community
18 May, 2021 I went right to getting the VIC working yesterday and am just now getting to the bucket of other stuff @TheGavNinja sent me. Lots to check out #commodore
17 May, 2021 These are the chips getting the dreaded X on them just from this evening. Sheesh
17 May, 2021 Brought another vintage computer back to life from the trash bin. Some probing around with the oscilloscope narrowed it down to a bad VIC chip. Desoldered, installed a socket and replaced it and it’s back in service.
17 May, 2021 The first spreadsheet I ever used was Practicalc. Seems appropriate to use it to hold a BOM for a new retro board build
16 May, 2021 Sunday morning Enigma work. Because reasons… #commodore #crypto
15 May, 2021 Six years ago today I became a licensed pilot ;-)
14 May, 2021 Just reading this book for the first time. It’s really good. Seems like a possible candidate for an @8BitShowAndTell book club.
13 May, 2021 Did you know that Bruce Schneier created a cipher for Neal Stephenson in Cryptonomicon(1999)? Uses a simple deck of cards, so naturally…Commodore 64! Should actually work on most 8 bit machines of the era with slight mods.
12 May, 2021 I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but 3583 bytes on an unexpanded VIC-20 really isn't much. My Pontifex program doesn't fit ;-)
12 May, 2021 I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but 3583 bytes on an unexpanded VIC-20 really isn't much. My Pontifex program doesn't fit ;-)
12 May, 2021 Retro computer repair people problems… when you need an NTSC VIC and TWO PAL versions arrive first
12 May, 2021 It freaking works. I can't believe this thing actually works. #commodore #c64 #crypto
12 May, 2021 I think screenshots from my scope desktop software is better than a photo of the scope screen. I'm going to start with pinouts of a Longboard 64 NTSC and organize the github repo. This would be much easier with two people in person. One to probe, the other to record. #commodore
12 May, 2021 I want to see scope pinouts of every pin on every chip on a VIC-20, C64 (long and short) and 128. If it doesn't exist, I may create this as a resource. Just power on and pin out, screenshot scope. Nothing running. #commodore
11 May, 2021 I will never take list/array slicing in my day job for granted again. Doable, but so messy. #commodore #crypto
10 May, 2021 Don't get impatient. Silly mistake. #commodore
08 May, 2021 Another 128 today. I’m not sure I understand this yet, but a wonky 8563 (80 column chip) was causing an issue on the CIA at U1. Took a while to figure this one out for a friend. When did I become my local 128 repair shop? I barely know what I’m doing #commodore
07 May, 2021 Out of all the vendors I deal with @futurewas8bit is one of the best. Consistent and great products. Penultimate+ and a 6502 this time. #commodore
07 May, 2021 10 min lunchtime progress: Running all rotors with 26 possible starting positions on a 3 Rotor Enigma with 5 rotors to choose from (I want this to finish in my lifetime). So 1,054,560 combinations in 71 seconds(BASIC takes 2+ hours). Not bad. #commodore #c64 #crypto #enigma
07 May, 2021 Least important applicance
06 May, 2021 On the couch so no screen capture. I’m sure there are efficiencies to do but it works. Moving to the next step: 3 rotor Enigma, 5 rotors to choose from First need all possible combinations. Tomorrow we’ll add 26 starting points to each and crunch numbers #enigma #commodore #c64
06 May, 2021 Forming a new club. I'm calling it "Folks who run calculations on all combinations of a 3 rotor Engima at 1.022727 MHz durning lunch breaks". Membership will be limited, so sign up early. #commodore
05 May, 2021 Well that doesn’t look anything like a square wave. Bad multiplexer. Saved a Vintage computer from the scrap heap with good tools and a 79 cent chip that is still being manufactured
05 May, 2021 Because what I really need is another project… #commodore
05 May, 2021 Something is different...
04 May, 2021 That worked even better than I expected. #commodore #fixallthethings
04 May, 2021 This might be the worst non chicklet keyboard I’ve ever used.
04 May, 2021 10 minute lunchtime progress: Working on more advanced ciphers I need a modulo 32 rotater (wraps 32 bit numbers around by bit at a time). Took a few minutes to wrap my mind around it, but I got it. Step 1 of a bazillion for ChaCha(and AES) complete but I'm happy at the moment #commodore #c64 #crypto
03 May, 2021 Implementing ChaCha… I need 4 eight bit ROLs, but the 6502 is really a 9 bit ROL. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to just to a CMP #$80 until now to set the carry before the rotate. Problem solved.
03 May, 2021 My first ever VIC-20 arrived. It seem salvageable, black screen, and you can't beat $25US... I don't own a dead test for a 20 so working on it old school. It was after I desoldered the horrible socket on UE11 that I realized I'm apparently out of 24 pin sockets. #commodore
03 May, 2021 Late lunch 10 minute progress: Next up is Pontifex from Cryptonomicon. Occurred to me while planning that I better do some card routines first so I don't bite off too much at once. So create a deck and shuffle (requires two different jokers to work) is done. #commodore #c64
02 May, 2021 Today on my operating table is my very reliable Evinrude 50. Just changing the plugs, it’s not even sick or anything.
30 Apr, 2021 Had a young coder(11) ask me to do my BASIC prime number code program without Simons BASIC so she could do it on Dad’s VIC 20. Here you go Ms. Lisa. I hope you can improve it for us. Sorry about the lack of video capture. I’m on my front porch :) #commodore #vic20
30 Apr, 2021 Tweet sized review of the @retrorewindca carts and harnesses: built solidly and they do what they are supposed to. This is machine number 4 back in service using them. #commodore
28 Apr, 2021 You haven’t REALLY lived until you try and demonstrate hash collisions using the bug repellent program from Ahoy! Magazine and a type in program called Salvage diver, then cross it with checksums and SHA-256.
28 Apr, 2021 Had quite a few ask about SHA-256 execution times in 6510/6502 Assembly. I'm seeing about 21 jiffies ($15 hex) on average. So 2.857 hashes per second on an unaccelerated Commodore 64. Not too shabby. Imma be Bitcoin rich!! In 50 trillion years.... #commodore #c64 #Crypto
27 Apr, 2021 Ha! Reseated the ROMs and it works. I am basically a wizard.
27 Apr, 2021 Getting into the nitty gritty of the crypto series on the Commodore now. I want to demonstrate hash collisions. Only 1Mhz so I'm doing shorter hashes and looking for occurrences of collisions that result in english words.
25 Apr, 2021 Current mood
24 Apr, 2021 This TNC for Raspberry Pi just arrived. Plugged it in and not only did it fail to work, it got so hot I couldn’t touch it. Bleh.
24 Apr, 2021 Brought it with me today in case there was an opportunity to work on it. Had to take cover during heavy rain, so I was prepared to make use of the time AND I fixed the bug. Woot!
24 Apr, 2021 10 minute morning progress before heading out for the day: Tiny bug... this gets all the primes to 2^24 except 3,5,7,11, and 13. And I am really stuck on WHY. Not gonna win any speed records, but it's good demo code anyway. #commodore #c64 #crypto
23 Apr, 2021 I'm actually doing some fishing this weekend, but my other project is to work on the ISS to Commodore config. Step 1 is serial connection to Raspberry Pi which was simple enough #commodore #c64 #Space
23 Apr, 2021 Youtube still has me in timeout. Isn't it lovely when they do that and you really have no idea why?
22 Apr, 2021 This took my Python script 207 seconds. My Commodore 64 just crossed the 24 hour mark. I'm hoping it finishes in time to post the article next week! Brute forcing all the primes between 1 and 2^24. But... it's for science! Yeah, that's it!!
22 Apr, 2021 10 minute lunchtime progress: Part 9 is on prime numbers. Following the SLOW BASIC version of this with an Assembly version. Next is printing in decimal and some speed work. Happy at this point though
22 Apr, 2021 Since I'm not allowed to comment on YouTube today, here's the YMT/Elysium Bitcoin miner using the Ultimate64 in full turbo mode. Kinda cheating and feels dirty: 26 seconds. My stock Commodore 64 takes 24 minutes.
22 Apr, 2021 The Commodore 64 N.O.O.C.U.L.A.R futbal "project"... I can't say it's the craziest idea I've EVER had, but it sure is fun!
22 Apr, 2021 Gather around the fire kids while Grandpa recounts tales of yesteryear. It was a time where brave men departed on grand adventures in their simulators...
21 Apr, 2021 In case you were wondering, SIMON'S BASIC modulus is 16 bit. Imma need to implement my own to do the next cipher which needs at least 2^24 to match my assembly version
21 Apr, 2021 Oh my, what have I started?
21 Apr, 2021 This cheat sheet gets a lot of use these days
20 Apr, 2021 15 years after we landed on the moon, a Commodore 64 running BASIC could find the prime numbers between 1 and 10000 in 16 minutes. Same algorithm in Python on a MacBook: 0.04 seconds. Rust: 0.002 seconds. What are you doing with this power? Nothing. Lame.
20 Apr, 2021 This satellite tracker is very cool. You have to hand enter the TLE data which isn't a big deal. It's in BASIC though so just oh so slow ;-) #commodore #c64 #hamradio
19 Apr, 2021 Gonna try to do a Commodore 64 to Commodore 64 Packet session THROUGH the ISS with @K0FFY_Radio. The only thing I was missing was a TNC, so I picked this one up that's a HAT for a Raspberry Pi. If it works, it'll be nice and portable.
19 Apr, 2021 Loving the collaboration between @DarrenFouldsand @8BitShowAndTell so much it’s my office theme today. Even running on a real floppy for the occasion.
19 Apr, 2021 Made a Python, Assembly and BASIC version of RC4 encryption on old computers. Other than questioning my existence on earth for a few days in the process, it went swimmingly!
17 Apr, 2021 Oh. My. God. THIS mistake took me hours to see. HOURS. Okay, NOW I have a working RC4 in Python, Commodore BASIC, and Commodore Assembly. I need a drink.
17 Apr, 2021 RC4 in Assembly is still kicking my butt. This is close but wrong. The python and BASIC versions took and hour, I don't know how long I've been at this version this week, but I still don't have it. Sigh.
16 Apr, 2021 Trying out a thing on Fridays I'm currently calling "The Nostalgia Files". In this first one I reveal my favorite book of all time.
15 Apr, 2021 RC4 in assembly... stuck on the nested loops with a double position swap. This one is making my brain hurt. I’m sure it will seem obvious once I get it but I’m putting it down for the evening.
15 Apr, 2021 Some new additions to our library
15 Apr, 2021 10 minute before work progress: Confirmed this is a working RC4 in BASIC with both a standard library and my python version. Assembly version is already about 60% complete. My first real stream cipher... super happy at the moment.
14 Apr, 2021 Am a little stuck with the next few ciphers so I’m turning to Bruce. This book weighs like 19 pounds. Light bedtime reading.
14 Apr, 2021 My controversial stance on modding retro hardware: I'm fine with modern drop in functional equivalents, but I don't want a replacement that implements extra features. I want the original experience extended past the life of some of the components
14 Apr, 2021 Way fewer people will read my long form posts than watch a video, but Reason number 27 why I put the bulk of my effort into long form posts on a platform I have full control over:
13 Apr, 2021 I truly love this movie despite its strange plot holes. This novelization actually does a good job of making sense of some parts of the plot the screen version misses
13 Apr, 2021 Package arrived from @FW4511 Is it weird that I really love the box? And I do need more Commodore Notebooks in my life
13 Apr, 2021 Visiting with a friend yesterday and he politely said, “This Commodore thing is close to obsession man.” “What do you mean?” I replied. He took my phone from my hand and turned it over. Okay, maybe just a little…
12 Apr, 2021 I kinda feel like I AM keeping up with the Commodore. #commodore #c64 #tigerbaron
12 Apr, 2021 I happen to have a RedBird TD2 AND a mobile Commodore 64 running Kennedy Approach which is an Air Traffic Control game. How cool would it be to make a game that interfaces with the RedBird? I have an idea for a data interface…
12 Apr, 2021 Working at the airport office today but I don’t want to slow down. Mobile 64 rig for the win. The next cipher to tackle is RC4. This one might take more brain cells than I actually possess.
09 Apr, 2021 Stuff to play with and then review from DIY Chris came today. Gal PLA, 4146 RAM tester, flash-able Kernal/BASIC/character rom chip and an adapter for these types of chips for my 866 programmer.
09 Apr, 2021 My 128 trouble maker is on the mend. I’m short two 4146s to test completely but mail should bring them soon. Socketed now and even recapped a lot of the Ceramics too. Lower checks out anyway :)
09 Apr, 2021 Turns out serial cable was attached to a Keyspan. Double win and it only took me a half hour to find. Now who’s gonna clean up this mess?
06 Apr, 2021 Desoldering 16 memory chips with 16 pins each is NOT something one should do when feeling impatient. I got them all without a single lifted pad. This 128 will live to fight another day.
03 Apr, 2021 The next two parts of the Cipher series are on Symmetrical Encryption and the algorithms take quite a long time to run at 1Mhz. Having a portable rig has been really nice.
03 Apr, 2021 After listening to an episode of @GUp80s with @DarrenFoulds and @8BitShowAndTell I've gotten back into one of my favorite games: Mastermind. So simple, but it's a good conference call thing. There's a great port of the IBM version to the 64.
03 Apr, 2021 My childhood best friend has never really been on social media and checks email every other week. I asked his wife the best way to chat with him. He overheard the conversation on the phone and sarcastically said “mail me a floppy”. I thought, well okay, 3.5 or 5.25? #thatwaseasy
02 Apr, 2021 10 Minute lunchtime progress: My 6502 experiment board is fully working. Love the way this turned out. #commodore
02 Apr, 2021 Well... this is new. Sigh
01 Apr, 2021 I haven’t done HAM radio stuff in a couple years now, but this combination may rekindle this interest. My call sign is N4LNX #commodore #c64 #hamradio
01 Apr, 2021 Off on a pre workout tangent this morning. Decided to dump the SID output for 16Mb to look for evidence of that 23 bit LFSR. I can't actually find repeats at all and this should be 24 bits. #commodore #c64
31 Mar, 2021 10 minute evening progress: This is moved over from the breadboard onto a compact (and neat) PCB. Last thing is the Arduino HAT daughterboard, but I'm thrilled with this at the moment. How it started, how it's going. It's got #commodore bones anyway ;-) 6502 is my favorite.
30 Mar, 2021 I’ve owned many many many laptops over the years. The one is my favorite.
30 Mar, 2021 10 minute lunchtime progress: Making headway in Cipher Series Part 6 where we talk about the magic of XOR in data integrity and then encryption. #commodore #c64 #retro #security
30 Mar, 2021 Strange flickering after I installed the JiffyDOS mod on my 128. Quite uncharacteristic of me, I did not inspect this switch carefully. Something seems off… :)
30 Mar, 2021 It just occurred to me that Choose Your Own Adventure is CYOA. Huh.
29 Mar, 2021 Almost finished with the 6502 board while listening to @GUp80s read choose your own adventure stories. Missing a latch switch. Where’s a Radio Shack when you need one?
29 Mar, 2021 The c0pperdragon mod has a default pallet that's just not my cuppa… luckily it's editable. How it started vs how it's going. MUCH better.
28 Mar, 2021 Recording a video response to the @8BitShowAndTell Easter egg(s) on the vinyl album video. I think I need a bigger desk. Let’s sell the house! #commodore #c64
28 Mar, 2021 And the answer is:
27 Mar, 2021 Okay, how long do you think this rig will run on an old 20 amp hour battery with the screen at full brightness? I want the 4 hour square. I gave it some work to do to keep it from sitting idle.
27 Mar, 2021 Cannibalizing an Easy Flash case for @adrianglz64 Snappy cart. The wifi module even fits. Time to get to work on this thing.
27 Mar, 2021 128 jiffy dos time. Maybe it’ll start playing nicer now. #commodore
27 Mar, 2021 Wyze watch came today. On the left: $20, on the right: $420. One of them will make it almost 24 hours on a charge. The other one will make it more than a week.
27 Mar, 2021 Still waffling on which machine to use in this. If I go with "TheC64" from @THEC64_RGL it's 5V like the monitor I'm using so an off the shelf phone battery makes this completely wireless. To use the Ultimate 64 I do have these voltage converters that would work.
27 Mar, 2021 Okay, I got both @8BitShowAndTell Easter eggs on the prodigal album. Finally. Yes, it’s what I did on a Friday evening (also my birthday). My wife helped. Took… a while and a whole legal pad page of notes to get. Well played Sir Robin. Video on it coming soon.
26 Mar, 2021 If you REALLY want to get into the weeds on how I figured out the @8BitShowAndTell Easter Egg(s) inside the Easter Egg on a 35 Year old album on a 35 year old computer then you're in luck, this video is for you!
26 Mar, 2021 Stillll working on this @8BitShowAndTell easter egg. I got one of the two...
25 Mar, 2021 Still iterating on the portable C64 design. I’ve got a list of changes to make, but field testing today has been successful. #commodore #c64
24 Mar, 2021 Very cool delivery from @gregnacu, Commodore compatible controller with switchable fire button function and Chicken logo patches. Nice!
24 Mar, 2021 Well it arrived. Time to work on figuring out the easter egg @8BitShowAndTell put INSIDE the easter egg on this album. I don't have a direct input to a C64, so step one is getting this program on tape. Where IS my tape recorder anyway?
21 Mar, 2021 Huh, weekend todo list is done. That’s… strange. Stretch goal is to get my pack base weight under 13 pounds.
21 Mar, 2021 Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. The problem child 128 is better every day
20 Mar, 2021 Considering ditching TheC64 for this and going with the Ultimate64. I have these two cases for it. Both will fit. A real C64 isn’t practical for power and fitting a cartridge in the back.
20 Mar, 2021 New to me 64C keyboard. Moving my Ultimate into a 64C case and want the keyboard to match.
20 Mar, 2021 What? 36 degrees F IIISSS above freezing. Time to power wash the boat
20 Mar, 2021 Working on the Snappy this morning for @adrianglz64</a> , why do I like this weird character thing while flashing it? Also, my capture device does an excellent job picking up the jail bars on this particular machine ;-)
19 Mar, 2021 Fits in the case. Monitor and TheC64 are 5V. Both run off of a single split wall plug or a 10Ah battery. Need to design/3D print brackets(less foam please) and buy a right-angle HDMI connector. I can visit @gregnacu and his Ultimate portable in a cafe soon #commodore #c64
19 Mar, 2021 I've been trying to figure out what to do with my "TheC64". I have this pelican 1490 case and a 14" very thin monitor that will fit in the lid. I need some kind of mechanism to raise it up when it's open. Hmmm... #commodore #c64
19 Mar, 2021 For the first time in weeks I don't know what to make next. Blinking cursor is taunting me... #commodore #c64
17 Mar, 2021 Been avoiding this for some time.
16 Mar, 2021 Finally got this 128 sorted out. 4.95 volts on the board is WAAY better than the 4.61 when I started.
16 Mar, 2021 More C64 Badlines fun while on Zoom calls. Running @NoelsRetroLab benchmark with the screen on vs screen off (PAL). 2.4 seconds faster.
16 Mar, 2021 In High school (like 1991) my grandma bought me a bunch of electronics equipment from Radio Shack. I’ve upgraded almost everything over the years except my multimeter which finally went to multimeter heaven last week. Its replacement lacks the vintage charm though.Thanks grandma
10 Mar, 2021 10 minute lunchtime progress: Even if I set the CPU speed on the Ultimate to 48MHz it looks like the Part 5 cipher calculations will still take 190 hours to complete. Or... 380 days on a standard Commodore 64. I may have to rethink this one a little... #commodore #c64
09 Mar, 2021 The c0pperdragon ended up in the short board 64C. The installation was easy other than the momentary panic that I had bent a VIC pin(I didn’t).
09 Mar, 2021 I bought one of these but have two machines that can really benefit from it. Thus begins the internal dialog about which one. Shut up, I’m not talking to myself. #commodore #c64 #128
08 Mar, 2021 Only have time for so much. In addition to my code cracking work, I have time for one hardware project this week. These are my choices and I want to be all in on all of them. #commodore #fpga #6502
06 Mar, 2021 Figured I might as well have one of these too :)
05 Mar, 2021 Wow, added a 300 Ohm resistor to my S-Video Cable. What a difference! Also, like 2 cents.
04 Mar, 2021 Two years ago today we went out the SF to pick up the Baron. Seems like 10 minutes ago.
04 Mar, 2021 Super excited to be testing this Snappy cart for @adrianglz64 , definitely one of the more exciting projects I know about for the 64 at the moment
03 Mar, 2021 Okay, I need to get writing posts now because I'm two weeks ahead. Finished the code for Part 4: John Connors pin cracker from Terminator 2, only on an 8 Bit Computer. This one was SO fun and unlike the movie prop this actually sorta does some work. #commodore #c64
02 Mar, 2021 10 minute breakfast progress part 3 of the cipher series: message "cracked". Now need to write the article. Only a week ahead of schedule at this point ;-)
27 Feb, 2021 Someone just pointed out that my ignite talk with the infamous VHS tape Shuttle Launch story was 11 years ago today. I decided to start SpaceUPDC that night. Where did the time go?
26 Feb, 2021 Late night playing airplanes last night
25 Feb, 2021 Replacement RF modulator for my 64C(PAL) is in. Smoke check time!
23 Feb, 2021 This evening’s project is an RF modulator replacement on this short board. It sure is tiny. #commodore #c64
22 Feb, 2021 Two months of eBay patience paid off. First edition.
21 Feb, 2021 I’ve been quietly working on an avionics product as a side hustle for quite some time. Today the hardware prototype build starts. #fpga
20 Feb, 2021 No, I’m not retro righting these two. In my mind, they earned this color. #commodore #c64 #tandy
20 Feb, 2021 This BASIC program by Raeto Collin West has been a HUGE help in understanding the SID controls. Allows you to toggle bits with the space bar in real time. Game sound effects are no longer black magic
20 Feb, 2021 This screen starts like this and gets better as it warms up. Time to hunt down some bad capacitors.
18 Feb, 2021 I'm VERY bullish on the Mega 65 in large part because they kept the C64 compatibility. It really could be my "one machine". With zero effort my standard dev environment just works (minus REU for now).
18 Feb, 2021 Going to take a short detour this evening to look deeper at the Mega 65. Rather than get to crazy with my keymap problem I just designated an old keyboard as the Mega emulator and put stickers in places that aren’t standard. Next is picking an assembler.
18 Feb, 2021 It took a lot of eBay patience to get a copy of this for a reasonable price. It’s been a wonderfully challenging read. Hat tip to @8BitShowAndTell for introducing me to it. #commodore #c64
17 Feb, 2021 Just ordered a couple RF Modulator replacements. One for my 128 and the other for this 64C.That's some impressive color bleed ;-) My breadbin got the @craig1black capacitor trick and it's working great. This 64C, not so much.
17 Feb, 2021 I'm thinking about replacing the RF Modulator on my short board (PAL). What is this crap on the board
17 Feb, 2021 Hmm, what next
17 Feb, 2021 It's working which is incredible
16 Feb, 2021 10 minute before work progress: SHA256 project is creating results, but they are incorrect. Now for the bug hunt on 800 lines of Assembly in Turbo Macro Pro where you can only view 20 lines at a time ;-) Feels close. WAY closer than I thought I'd be in a week. #commodore #C64
15 Feb, 2021 I’m reasonably sure this is my original copy of this.
15 Feb, 2021 10 minute lunchtime progress: break from the SHA256 thing, the math is hurting my brain. Adding a "flour bomb" level to the game and I need some "exploding" bags of flour. Don't be intimidated by my artistic prowess. I have several minutes of art training. #commodore #c64
15 Feb, 2021 Urg, this has that bloated proprietary feel that my experience tells me that I will regret doing any serious work on. I don't do proprietary formats. Bleh. #FPGA
15 Feb, 2021 10 Minute pre workday progress on my SHA256 on 6502. I think I'm close to it rudimentarily working which is kinda nuts. 900 lines of code and 126 labels so far (yikes). #commodore #c64
13 Feb, 2021 The Mega 65 is the "new" project in 2021 I'm most excited about
12 Feb, 2021 Finally getting around to soldering
12 Feb, 2021 This card duplicator saved my butt this morning. Something went wrong on my Ultimate II and it dumped huge files onto the card and corrupted my primary assembly files. I happened to have cloned the card last night. 20 hours of work saved. Phew. #commodore #c64
11 Feb, 2021 10 minute pre evening workout code progress: Well, now I'm down the rabbit hole. Steps 1-3 of SHA256 on a 40 year old computer down, about 300 steps to go. #commodore #c64
11 Feb, 2021 10 minute lunch break progress: Implementing SHA256 on a 6502 is going to be particularly challenging
11 Feb, 2021 Going through Lance Leventhal's 6502 Book and combining some lessons
11 Feb, 2021 The article where I use a commodore 64 to do "slides" instead of 3 minutes with power point
10 Feb, 2021 The more complex the machine, the more things that can break. Left engine alternator today.
09 Feb, 2021 Tonight’s project will be moving the mess on the left to the neat and tidy on the right.
08 Feb, 2021 Seems silly to use a slide deck to convey ideas when a BASIC program will work perfectly fine.
07 Feb, 2021 Still working on this one. MUCH harder than I thought. This iteration is with REU, creating 512k random numbers (0-255), counting the occurrences and outputting as decimal counts. Takes 31 seconds on PAL, 38 on NTSC. hmm, I really should blank the screen during #c64 #commodore
25 Jan, 2021 Pictures don’t really do justice to how wicked cool the white vinyl of this collection is. Perfectly complements the silver album cover.
25 Jan, 2021 Was chatting with someone about C64 startup states, so during a long con call this morning I played with dumping memory contents as decimal location, hex location, dec value, hex value. Too slow to be usable but was fun to do
21 Jan, 2021 Non helpful error messages. This is from last night, clearly the backlight is working or I wouldn’t have been able to see this…
19 Jan, 2021 Just opened a box in storage looking for something and found this little gem. Came out of my Dad’s 79 Suburban. Still works ;)
17 Jan, 2021 I'm trying to decide if I should fully embrace the chunky PESCII graphics or if I should spend time on a bitmap title screen. I think it's safe to say that I wont be taking anyone's graphics jobs away from them anytime soon. #commodore #c64
16 Jan, 2021 The graphics are still rudimentary and the landscape scroll isn’t quite as smooth as I want, but definitely making progress. Programming on vintage hardware(not cross assembled) is harder but more satisfying somehow. #commodore #c64
14 Jan, 2021 Figured out split screen scrolling on my own. After 90 days I’m ready to say that I’m graduating to intermediate level 6510/02 assembly programmer. It’s got the slightest glitch which I suspect will be worse on my PAL machine. Turbo Macro Pro lunchtime fun :) #commodore
12 Jan, 2021 Version 3 of my One Time Pad program on the Commodore is in progress. Used a tip from @8BitShowAndTell he helped me with for another project in this one and it's working. The rest of v2 to v3 should be easy (famous last words) #commodore #c64
10 Jan, 2021 I don’t do resolutions, but I do focus on a theme sometimes. If chapter 46 of my life had a theme, this would be it.
10 Jan, 2021 I like working on the tail because it’s at eye level. #myzenith750
09 Jan, 2021 I haven’t been this pleased with a new keyboard since I got my Happy Hacker in 1999. Cherry Mx Brown switches for the win.
07 Jan, 2021 Welp, it's supposed to snow the next 15 hours, somewhere in the 5 inches range. I think I'll watch TV. HAHAHAHA, right. My 6502 Breadboard computer needs to be moved to some PCBs. Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to solder we go…
07 Jan, 2021 My “The64 mini” will be going into my airplane panel soon (I can’t bring myself to cannibalize one of my real machines) but for now it’s become the calculator on my desk. This 7 inch screen is also going into the plane. #commodore #c64
07 Jan, 2021 So far your score resets to zero if you don't stay VFR and the fire button changes the plane color. I made a list of gameplay I'm going to add a little at a time. It even sorta looks like a Zenith which wasn't easy with a 24x21 pixel sprite limitation.
06 Jan, 2021 Phone apps are cool I guess, but I’ve always been a hardware device person. These make regular rotations on my desk. Hat tip to my son for the mechanical stopwatch.
03 Jan, 2021 Persistence paying off
03 Jan, 2021 My sprites sorta look like my Zenith, not bad for the first crack at it. #commodore #c64 #myzenith750
31 Dec, 2020 Might as well put a Commodore in the airplane… screen design concept #1…
28 Dec, 2020 The new video series has been in production while on my "break" (I've never been good at breaks anyway). I've forgotten how long post-production takes even with great tools. Anyway, very pleased so far.
27 Dec, 2020 My Color Maximite 2 and Raspberry Pi 400 are sharing this 8 inch screen now. Perfect setup for both machines and doesn’t take up a ton of room.
25 Dec, 2020 How do you feel about snow Elli? I ate some.
25 Dec, 2020 Feel a little like Ralphie this morning. Merry Christmas
23 Dec, 2020 I haven’t been able to get over the USB-C only ports on my MacBook. Seems like a good idea on the drawing board, but practically it’s a mess. God forbid you want to use your laptop in your lap AND plug in an SD card at the same time. #willibreakittoday
22 Dec, 2020 For #doscember my favorite DOS software is STSPlus by the late Dave Ransom. This was a fixture on my computer screen for many years. Still works ;)
21 Dec, 2020 9am on the first weekday of Christmas vacation and finished my One Time Pad program on the Commodore 64. This is the first Assembly program I’ve ever competed to a 1.0 version. #Commodore64 #c64 #commodore
20 Dec, 2020 This centerpiece protected by trains.
18 Dec, 2020 My vacation time doesn't roll over to the next year, so starting in about an hour, I'm off until Jan 4th. Time to void some warranties!
15 Dec, 2020 After all there’s only 10 more sleeps ‘til Christmas.
15 Dec, 2020 The view
14 Dec, 2020 That’s a bug splatter at 15,000 feet. What kind of bug flies that high? Hopefully it wasn’t Tinkerbell.
13 Dec, 2020 In case you were wondering, RedHat 5.2 from 1998 will not boot on a @system76 Laptop from 2016 without some kernel trickery. I’m not giving up though.
13 Dec, 2020 Working on my project to recreate my first Linux install close to how I remember it. Would you consider it cheating if I replaced the marginally flakey 30 year old hard drive with an IDE to SD card adapter?
12 Dec, 2020 Looking like winter is coming.
08 Dec, 2020 I was telling someone that I never use my Commodore 128 in 128 mode, so playing @8BitShowAndTell’s“10 print racer” game on it checks that box AND I get to use the number pad just like on the PET he demoed it on. #Commodore
08 Dec, 2020 Recording time! Forgot how much work (and how fun) this is.
07 Dec, 2020 Not surprisingly this was WAAAYY easier in BASIC. Although it runs at about 1/100th the speed
06 Dec, 2020 I played around with programming Commodores as a kid, but only got so far. This is my first “real” software on the Commodore. Implemented generating one time encryption pads using a random(ish) generator. Never stop learning. #commodore #c64
05 Dec, 2020 I love Turbo Macro Pro, but sometimes I want to keep things in version control. Turns out exporting to ASCII files is only two steps. (this is @8BitShowAndTell code with my annotations while I was following his video) #commodore #c64
04 Dec, 2020 Urg, my “office” needs a cord organization and clutter intervention.
02 Dec, 2020 I guess we used to fly without @ForeFlight, I can’t live without it in the #tigerbaron
02 Dec, 2020 If you’re a pilot in winter this is what it looks like out your office window. #tigerbaron
30 Nov, 2020 Oh, one more December project… Getting RedHat 5.2 (1998) on a 486 Monochrome laptop with 4MB of RAM.
30 Nov, 2020 Brain, what’s the thing we’re gonna learn in December? FPGAs Pinky. FPGAs.
29 Nov, 2020 I don’t have a portable Commodore and felt like coding in a different room so my MacBook is just gonna have to do for this evening. Do you suppose when they designed the Retina display they considered some yahoo using it for a 40 column display?
28 Nov, 2020 On the prowl for Nat’s Christmas Album on Vinyl. I have several of his other albums but missing that one.
25 Nov, 2020 Took a little modern electronics wizardry to get it working on an LCD but this is a surprisingly usable writing machine. Plus it has no internet which is its best feature. #commodore 128
24 Nov, 2020 Trying to decide which to have in my office setup next. Note that the RedHat 5.2 is from the first time they used that version number. So 1998. I’m leaning Amiga...
23 Nov, 2020 We're being invaded
23 Nov, 2020 What's your favorite fiction book?
23 Nov, 2020 Got some new office art. One of the best terrible movies ever.
20 Nov, 2020 Delivery for today was a CGA to VGA converter. A Commodore 128 in 80 column mode was my dream setup in 1986. Only took 34 years to put it all together and get myself one.
19 Nov, 2020 The day ended pretty okay. #tigerbaron
19 Nov, 2020 You can tell you landed somewhere up North when the pilot lounge has a fireplace in it. #tigerbaron
18 Nov, 2020 My quest for Super Snapshot on Commodore continues. Flashed it to an Easy Flash and it starts on both the 64 and 128 but is slow and crashes both systems.
14 Nov, 2020 Just a little light Saturday afternoon reading.
13 Nov, 2020 At some point over the last few years a quick 400 mile trip has become routine. 72 knot headwind this morning though so if you’re flying I suggest the opposite direction from the one I picked.
09 Nov, 2020 No such thing as too much Linux
08 Nov, 2020 Jeopardy for DOS: Godspeed Alex
06 Nov, 2020 Not often I fly this plane so close to the ground #tigerbaron
05 Nov, 2020 Are they multiplying? A friend heard about my adventures in learning 6502 Assembly and donated his 128 to my cause. In 1987 this is was my dream machine. Looks good next to my C64. #alwayslearning
29 Oct, 2020 My color Maximite 2 came today. It’s insanely fast.
29 Oct, 2020 Commodore 64 on a flat LCD will never stop feeling slightly wrong
28 Oct, 2020 I’ve never used SUSE in all of my years of being a Linux guy. Time to give it a whirl
28 Oct, 2020 Hello Pennsylvania. I don’t know how well it comes across on video, but you could have easily been fooled into thinking this cloud layer was the frozen ground in the Arctic. TV and Internet would have you believe the sky was falling. Well I was there. It’s not.
26 Oct, 2020 Some people doodle. Some people play solitaire. I wire stuff together.
24 Oct, 2020 Test fit of the tail. This whole section will probably be permanent by tomorrow. One step at a time.
24 Oct, 2020 Once again, popsicle sticks to help with laser alignment to the rescue. Thank you kindergarten teachers for the popsicle stick skills.
20 Oct, 2020 My co pilot is prettier than yours.
20 Oct, 2020 Probably shouldn’t eyeball the tail alignment huh? Let’s use a “laser”!
14 Oct, 2020 Even better than DOS WordPerfect on a MacBook is Word Writer 5 on my real Commodore 64.
14 Oct, 2020 WordPerfect for DOS on a MacBook Pro. So wrong but so so right.
10 Oct, 2020 Role models
08 Oct, 2020 Caleb is back to working full time at the Biltmore winery to help put himself through school. He brings home a bottle of whatever they are making every day as an employee perk. Any guesses what they’re making this week?
08 Oct, 2020 I have to apologize for violating my personal policy of only using social media to share cool things I’m doing with friends and family. So here’s the current state of one of my many projects.
02 Oct, 2020 I promise I enjoy this. A lot. My face is a liar.
01 Oct, 2020 Coming along nicely
29 Sep, 2020 CPU clock module build
27 Sep, 2020 With a little bit of work, Commodores can be displayed on HDMI screens
26 Sep, 2020 Well there’s your problem.
24 Sep, 2020 I'll never complain about 40 columns again
24 Sep, 2020 A person was detected
23 Sep, 2020 Both of my 80s vintage computers are in good working order. Here is the other one.
22 Sep, 2020 Upgraded my workstation
19 Sep, 2020 We just pretended to fly today #tigerbaron
14 Sep, 2020 Choosing wisely at 4am
11 Sep, 2020 Things you cannot buy
05 Sep, 2020 Back to building. Loving the 59 degree morning. #myzenith750
22 Aug, 2020 Mead anniversary
09 Aug, 2020 Mountains to sea trail day
08 Aug, 2020 Appalachian Trail day
03 Aug, 2020 Biltmore bikes
28 Jul, 2020 Added a kettle bell and a backpack to my daily walk now
27 Jul, 2020 No pack hiking on the AT today
27 Jul, 2020 It’s not all bad
07 Jul, 2020 Just brushing up for Trivia Games on the ages of Presidents
30 Jun, 2020 I very rarely close the door on the dog crate. Apparently in the middle of the night the dog moved to the floor and the cat decided she was a dog.
26 Jun, 2020 In 700 hours of flying I’ve been vectored over my house one time. Thanks a lot clouds.
24 Jun, 2020 Dodging thunderstorms. Again :-)
19 Jun, 2020 Spent the day dodging thunderstorms
15 Jun, 2020 X Carve is back online and making airplane stuff
15 Jun, 2020 The correct way to start Monday.
14 Jun, 2020 Yeah we live here. Perfect morning for a long walk alone.
13 Jun, 2020 These flexible grip mats are my new favorite thing. #myzenith750
07 Jun, 2020 Finally have a more permanent place for the X-Carve CNC. Time to make custom airplane parts :-)
06 Jun, 2020 The same thing we do every morning Pinky #myzenith750
02 Jun, 2020 Perfect outside working weather
31 May, 2020 What? I only dropped hot metal on the back of my glove a tiny bit. I think I’ll switch to my welding gloves.
30 May, 2020 I keep having to scoot this rat snake off of my driveway. He has a hard time on the blacktop surface.
30 May, 2020 Left the house to come to work on this before 6 this morning as usual. Really didn’t feel like it this time but it’s not gonna build itself. Like my patriotic colored air/brake lines? #myzenith750
28 May, 2020 Talking with the CEO of Masten Aerospace (and SFF Chairman) today in a couple hours on the podcast. Anyone have any questions for him?
25 May, 2020 Low tech noggin protection. #myzenith750
23 May, 2020 I spend too much of my week looking at screens. Very few things make me happier than making things with my hands. #myzenith750
21 May, 2020 Been podcasting with the same equipment since 2009. Today the upgrades arrived. I WILL RECORD ALL THE THINGS.
18 May, 2020 This airplane has no middle seats to keep open.
16 May, 2020 I’m a HUGE fan of these @isotunesaudio PRO Bluetooth headphones. Sweat and dust-proof with a 27db noise reduction rating. Hard to spend hours in the hangar airplane building without them. #myzenith750
16 May, 2020 This mornings project is adding access panels in places that should probably become standard locations for them on this airplane. I don’t like having areas that are inaccessible without having to drill out rivets. #myzenith750
11 May, 2020 A little light evening studying.
10 May, 2020 Been at this project three years. Today was the very first time I sat in it. Airplane noises were made. #myzenith750
10 May, 2020 Looks like a mess but one foot in front of the other. #myzenith750
09 May, 2020 Finally. Civilization.
03 May, 2020 Every once in a while something takes way longer than planned. This seat pan took more than two hours to get situated in its final place. #planebuilderproblems #myzenith750
26 Apr, 2020 I left the pilot side top wing skin off to run electrical and pitot lines on this side. All done so it’s wing rivet day. #myzenith750
25 Apr, 2020 I’ve stuck to the plans for the most part. Every once in a while there’s a thing I want that’s not standard. Like a removable pitot tube. Super happy with the way this came out. #myzenith750
24 Apr, 2020 Okay engineers, anyone have a better method for making a 122mm hole in my wing skin? #myzenith750
19 Apr, 2020 Needed some work done inside the rear fuselage and I don’t get close to fitting in the access panel. Caleb to the rescue. #myzenith750
18 Apr, 2020 I need to make a YouTube video on things I wish I’d known before I started building this thing. For example, Milwaukee makes a cordless rivet puller that I now own but wish I had bought the first day. #myzenith750
18 Apr, 2020 Time to rivet the baggage area #myzenith750
11 Apr, 2020 I have seen a few flying models of this plane where they left the seats unpadded and uncovered. I don’t care how tough you think you are, nothing says uncomfortable like flying in a plane with lawn chair seating. Fancy memory foam and fine material covering for this guy. Soon. #myzenith750
11 Apr, 2020 I’ve been working on this plane too long to not yet have been able to sit in it and make airplane noises. Seems like a good time to make the seats. Now I just need to relearn how to use a sewing machine. #myzenith750
09 Apr, 2020 We moved to the North Carolina Mountains 8 years ago and it felt like quite a risky move at the time. I’ve never grown tired of my daily 3 mile walk loop even though I’ve seen some of these scenes a thousand times.
07 Apr, 2020 We had to take our Russian Blue cat Valentine to the vet today for a minor issue. This is more complicated than it seems these days. Instructions involved leaving her at the door after calling to announce we had arrived. She was not amused but is now back at home and just knocked my toothpaste tube off the counter while meowing at me for attention. Must be feeling better.
03 Apr, 2020 My current productivity setup
31 Mar, 2020 Flying, again
26 Mar, 2020 Don't interrupt
25 Mar, 2020 Send letters
25 Mar, 2020 This week's company email...
22 Mar, 2020 Time to take the tiger for its annual inspection. Will be down for about two weeks. I’ll have to get single engine current :)
22 Mar, 2020 Airport is a dead zone today.
19 Mar, 2020 My daily walk route could be worse.
16 Mar, 2020 Does this count as social distancing? I believe it does. #tigerbaron
13 Mar, 2020 My version of making lemonade. Electric and pitot lines being run. #myzenith750
12 Mar, 2020 Opportunities in a crisis
10 Mar, 2020 Test fitting the seats and baggage floor. Daylight savings only got me so far. #myzenith750
10 Mar, 2020 Finally warm enough to get back to work on this thing. #myzenith750
11 Feb, 2020 Sporting clays in the snowstorm
04 Feb, 2020 Sunrise to sunset. Logged 9.7 hours Monday.
01 Feb, 2020 Time to apologize to my kindergarten teacher for that time I implied that popsicle stick skills would not be needed in my life. #myzenith750
01 Feb, 2020 Not going to build itself #myzenith750
27 Jan, 2020 Patreon backer reward time! You follow @superaeroflight right?
18 Jan, 2020 At 5am in a 33 degree hangar blue flames are awesome.
11 Jan, 2020 Time to start making a cockpit. #myzenith750
10 Jan, 2020 It getting old yet? Nope. #tigerbaron
09 Jan, 2020 Slipping in some weekday morning work. Vertical stabilizer almost done. #myzenith750
06 Jan, 2020 Oh keto, how I love thee. Monday night homemade prime rib for what it costs to go to Chipotle. Yes please.
05 Jan, 2020 Flying airplanes again. #tigerbaron
03 Jan, 2020 I’ve made the mistake of falling in love with espresso which means my morning cup of coffee is now a multi step ordeal. Totally worth it.
29 Dec, 2019 Managed to get all four flaperons finished up before sunrise. #myzenith750
28 Dec, 2019 Ran out of bottles when bottling this batch of mead. Then in remembered we are the south. One thing we definitely have here is mason jars!
28 Dec, 2019 You’d think after all these years of hanging around airports it would get old. Nope.
28 Dec, 2019 Morning tool warm up. #myzenith750
22 Dec, 2019 Despite marrying a sailor, my wife is known for her mostly PG-13 mouth. Today she was putting a turkey in the oven when she realized halfway through setting a timer that she had forgotten to put the herbs in the cavity. Ladies and gentlemen, present you with Alexa’s capture of my wife’s “dirty mouth”. Sound on.
22 Dec, 2019 The same thing we do every morning Pinky. #myzenith750
21 Dec, 2019 Been a pair of minutes since I’ve screwed something up on my airplane build. Making 8 of these. They should be cut like the one on the right. The one on the left is an epic fail on my part. #myzenith750
17 Dec, 2019 Fun evening at a Christmas party with some new friends and some old ones.
15 Dec, 2019 Working in the shop today and Apple is busy protecting my hearing.
14 Dec, 2019 It’s time to make the airplanes. #myzenith750
13 Dec, 2019 So I was elected President of an old school organization, the Western North Carolina Pilots Association. Old school to the point where the President gets a custom made gavel. I wonder if they’re gonna be ready for the kinds of changes I’m going to be making. Starting with the gavel...
12 Dec, 2019 Been fishing on Douglas Lake several times. #tigerbaron
08 Dec, 2019 I have a cat that is bigger than my co pilot today. #tigerbaron
07 Dec, 2019 Logging some Cirrus time today. #nottigerbaron
06 Dec, 2019 We lived just a few miles from here for a decade and I’ve never been to this airport before. #tigerbaron
24 Nov, 2019 Caleb left the airport and took a job making wine at Biltmore to put himself through school. He brings home wine almost every day. Can you tell this week was Merlot?
20 Nov, 2019 Apparently I have a roll of about 1000 of these left.
18 Nov, 2019 Second star to the right, straight on till morning #tigerbaron
15 Nov, 2019 Rain or shine #tigerbaron
10 Nov, 2019 Apparently Douglas Adams wrote fortune cookie fortunes.
02 Nov, 2019 44 degrees INSIDE the hangar but the plane isn’t going to build itself. Suck it up buttercup. #myzenith750
27 Oct, 2019 Took too long of a break from the airplane build. Back to work! #myzenith750
19 Oct, 2019 It certainly gets attention. #tigerbaron
15 Oct, 2019 My copilot is pretty.
15 Oct, 2019 Such and honor and privilege to have spent the last week with the men of the 100th bomb group and their families. Got a little flying in too :). Map credit to #foreflight
14 Oct, 2019 5 empty seats is weird.
13 Oct, 2019 Incredible weekend with these men. When the weekend started there were 10. Dewey Christopher passed away in his sleep here at the reunion. Blue skies Dewey.
11 Oct, 2019 War stories with B-17 pilots.
11 Oct, 2019 Oh nothing, just spending the day with WWII veterans at the National Museum of World War II.
10 Oct, 2019 Just an ordinary day. The guy in the red? He’s a WWII B-17 pilot and I just flew him to Colorado Springs for a reunion.
09 Oct, 2019 Headed to Colorado Springs tomorrow. Apparently they are in for a slight change of weather in the next 18 hours.
08 Oct, 2019 Blaze pizza keto crust. Michael’s score is about a 4.7 out of 5.
28 Sep, 2019 Take your wife to see Orson Scott Card and she sketches him instead of taking pictures. Welcome to my world.
23 Sep, 2019 I was super nervous to cut the struts to length. Turns out a metal cutting blade on my miter saw made it a snap. #myzenith750
21 Sep, 2019 Flew to Mexico MO and back for the Zenith Open House yesterday. Did I take a single picture at the event? Nope. #facepalm
20 Sep, 2019 Flying an airplane with onboard radar sure is great. #tigerbaron
16 Sep, 2019 Got my multi engine rating today. I didn’t even screw up.
14 Sep, 2019 Measuring distances on opposite sides of the wings to make sure they are lined up using a digital tape measure with a laser on it. Was hoping for them to be “pretty close”, but exactly the same will do too :)
07 Sep, 2019 Test fitting the tail. #myzenith750
03 Sep, 2019 Feels weird to land in Millington. I was stationed here in 1993.
01 Sep, 2019 Putting the wings on. Feels awesome. #myzenith750
30 Aug, 2019 Headroom is a problem in almost every light airplane I fly. And I’m not even super tall.
29 Aug, 2019 Where we’re going we don’t neeeed roads.
29 Aug, 2019 Well Lowe’s is doing a few things right
28 Aug, 2019 My Dad did close to 400 rivets today. #myzenith750
28 Aug, 2019 I have “hired” help this morning. #myzenith750
21 Aug, 2019 Calling approach into Beaufort for a 10 degree deviation for “a little weather” was a good call.
18 Aug, 2019 Quiet afternoon with the best beer in America, a book and a pretty artist. Not too shabby. #makecheatdaycount
18 Aug, 2019 Light morning. Only 420 holes before the sun came up. #myzenith750
16 Aug, 2019 Flying a lighter plane today. Although most small planes are lighter than a P Baron.
12 Aug, 2019 Cool airplane spotting for today: Piaggio 180
11 Aug, 2019 Starting on the dreaded wing root skins. Trying to make aluminum go into shapes it really doesn’t want to go... #myzenith750
06 Aug, 2019 It’s a hard-knock life...
03 Aug, 2019 It’s time to make the airplane. #myzenith750
03 Aug, 2019 In the early morning I put one of these in my coffee. I’m currently questioning why we have them next to each other in the pantry. For... reasons.
01 Aug, 2019 Bill captured my approach in the rain from the right seat. I turned a much closer in base leg than usual to avoid the heavy rain just to the south of the airport. #tigerbaron
22 Jul, 2019 Made it to Airventure with my favorite person. Only had to warm water in a coffee pot to bathe one time to get here. #campscholler
17 Jul, 2019 I was never good at offices anyway.
16 Jul, 2019 One last engine out practice. Hope to never see this unexpectedly.
16 Jul, 2019 My view of Lake Lure is better than yours. #nobodyputsbaroninthecorner
11 Jul, 2019 Time to stretch the tiger’s legs. #tigerbaron
07 Jul, 2019 Doing something. Important?? #myzenith750
06 Jul, 2019 Brake cylinders on the rudder pedals. Check. #myzenith750
06 Jul, 2019 The same thing we do at 6am every day Pinky. #myzenith750
04 Jul, 2019 Flying planes. Again.
01 Jul, 2019 Today’s cool airplane spotting of the day: A Rutan Long EZ. This is an airplane I’ve wanted since I was a kid. Unfortunately my Dutch/Norwegian shoulders are too broad to fit comfortably. And no there is nothing wrong with it. The engine is in the tail so when you park it and get out you retract the nose gear and sit it on the nose so it doesn’t tip backwards.
30 Jun, 2019 I hear “I could never build an airplane” a lot. Yes you can. You just have to be willing to spend a couple thousand hours over a couple years paying very careful attention to endless details. This is the only place this jam nut on the linear actuator is mentioned. Check. #myzenith750
29 Jun, 2019 I couldn’t find this tiny part so I made it from the plans specs from scrap aluminum. As soon as I finished I found it. #myzenith750
26 Jun, 2019 Doesn’t get old. Also, windshield bugs.
23 Jun, 2019 I have 13 vertebrae fused in my spine so laying on a hard surface is pretty painful. But if it doesn’t kill you and all that... #myzenith750
22 Jun, 2019 Made 24 of these L angles this morning. I must be slacking, only 384 holes before 8am. And yes, I counted because... well reasons. #myzenith750
21 Jun, 2019 I have thousands of dollars worth of fancy tools but sometimes the right tool for the job is a six dollar hack saw and some elbow grease. #myzenith750
20 Jun, 2019 Today’s cool airplane spotting: a brand new Honda jet. Very nice.
20 Jun, 2019 Before the work day even started today I got the nose skin pulled over. Chipping away every day. #myzenith750
18 Jun, 2019 Asheville airport cool airplane sighting of the day: Zenith 601 being delivered to a new owner in Norfolk.
17 Jun, 2019 One of my all time favorite aircraft
16 Jun, 2019 We only eat bread once or twice a month so when we do we really try to make it special. Tonight it’s a mountain of dinner plate sized homemade garlic naan.
16 Jun, 2019 Rivet day #myzenith750
15 Jun, 2019 This morning’s progress beginning at 6am was 340 holes on the bottom skin and main spar each drilled twice to final size. I think I can skip my shoulder workout today. In case you were wondering, a @boschtoolsna drill can easily drill 680 holes on 1 and a half batteries. #myzenith750
08 Jun, 2019 A lot of people tell me they just don't have time for working out, or learning new things, or long term projects of passion etc. Well what were you doing at 5am this morning? Yeah... #myzenith750
04 Jun, 2019 The second wing is going 10 times faster now that I sort of know what I’m doing #myzenith750
01 Jun, 2019 Never seen a Zenith 801 before and now I’ve seen two in person in one week.
26 May, 2019 Busted.
24 May, 2019 It’s fast enough that it’s hard for the camera guy to focus and keep it in frame, but it sure does sound cool. #tigerbaron
21 May, 2019 I wonder if I can still score a free breakfast with this...
21 May, 2019 A rare Zenith 801 sighting at KAVL today. Don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person.
21 May, 2019 Yeah, we live here.
30 Apr, 2019 Hey that spinny thing... well it isn’t.... #tigerbaron
26 Apr, 2019 Designing Avionics components. What else would someone even do on a Friday night?
20 Apr, 2019 At the end of the training just for fun I took off from runway 4 at JFK and experienced a double bird strike climbing out. I made it back to runway 13 in a Baron. Take that Sully! #sullyisarealhero
20 Apr, 2019 Ran out yesterday to check the tie-downs on the Skyhawk we took down here. No hangars available so I had to watch it try to fly a little while tied down.
20 Apr, 2019 Back in the Baron simulator again. If classes were like this in grade school, maybe kids would pay attention.
16 Apr, 2019 The seminar I’m at has my friend Deb in a little bit of a Wile E Coyote predicament
16 Apr, 2019 Learning to fly a twin engine airplane on one engine makes for some strange flight paths on FlightAware #tigerbaron
28 Mar, 2019 Birthday present from my wife. Awesomesauce. #myzenith750
24 Mar, 2019 This is odd. In the same hangar as the Baron is a Pilatus painted like a Zebra. Welcome to the zoo hangar. #tigerbaron
23 Mar, 2019 Finally got it home #tigerbaron
23 Mar, 2019 Welcome to my office #tigerbaron
23 Mar, 2019 So long Arizona #tigerbaron
22 Mar, 2019 This is not the best movie choice for a pilot lounge
10 Mar, 2019 Checking off bucket list items faster in the last year than any other time in my life. Royals spring training: check
04 Mar, 2019 Yeah, today I piloted a Baron on an epic route. #tigerbaron
03 Mar, 2019 Can actually see the golden gate this time across.
03 Mar, 2019 Clouds or snow covered tundra?
02 Mar, 2019 When your friend calls and asks if you want to come check out a brand new Baron...you say yes.
01 Mar, 2019 If we can get over the drama with the seller my trip across the country in the Baron next week will look something like this. #tigerbaron
25 Feb, 2019 I work really fast. Is 4 pots of coffee a lot? #myzenith750
24 Feb, 2019 Yeah these three fluted L angles took an hour. Funny how some parts fly by and others seem to take an afternoon. #myzenith750
17 Feb, 2019 It’s top wing skin day. #myzenith750
15 Feb, 2019 I have exactly one multi engine flight in my logbook. So the instructor thought my first simulator landing should be with the left engine out. Not too shabby. #pilotthuglife
15 Feb, 2019 Full motion simulator training at Executive Flight Training today. Awesome
14 Feb, 2019 Didn’t take enough pictures but I put my first couple hours in a multi engine airplane in my logbook today. That body of water would be the Atlantic Ocean.
06 Feb, 2019 Been a strange couple months
04 Feb, 2019 This says I’m ready for the actual Instrument written. But I don’t feel ready.
01 Feb, 2019 He’s a pretty calm pilot
30 Jan, 2019 The weather outside is frightful....
26 Jan, 2019 Traffic
26 Jan, 2019 GMUs Runway Cafe is where pilots go to tell lies.
24 Jan, 2019 Got the RedBird all set up. Pretty sweet
23 Jan, 2019 Yes!!!!
18 Jan, 2019 View from my office today. Beautiful. Then a decent to minimums through this to a fogged in runway.
17 Jan, 2019 Controller: “03G can you give me a condition report at your current location and altitude?” Me: “Approach, I can almost see half of a wing”
12 Jan, 2019 Shop heater isn’t even close to keeping up with the cold temperatures but the work goes on. #myzenith750
11 Jan, 2019 Took out CEO flying for the first time today. Yeah we live here...
10 Jan, 2019 Gorgeous day to be an airplane nut
07 Jan, 2019 How to tell from your track log which of your flights today was instrument training. I don’t remember doing any loops... #foreflight
03 Jan, 2019 Lazy time is over. #myzenith750
27 Dec, 2018 Yeah, the airplane we are buying is painted like a Tiger
19 Dec, 2018 My office today
18 Dec, 2018 Got some news to be revealed next week. This is your clue. Special prize for anyone who guesses correctly. My parents and JMo clan are not eligible for guessing :)
15 Dec, 2018 Found this in a used bookstore. Copyright 1979.
14 Dec, 2018 Today was a new day and a new adventure with my favorite person
14 Dec, 2018 She thought a mason jar salad meant regular people sized mason jar...
05 Dec, 2018 Morning study time ambiance today
04 Dec, 2018 Just had dinner with SR 71 pilot Col Richard Graham. Now on to him telling us stories of the worlds fastest aircraft.
24 Nov, 2018 Caleb is diving in the tank at EPCOT
23 Nov, 2018 Hey, if you guys could just hold this parade until we get a pic, that’d be grrreeeaattt.
22 Nov, 2018 Traffic jam on Splash Mountain.
21 Nov, 2018 Disney is way easier when your kids are adults.
18 Nov, 2018 Saw this cool trick by Jon Croke of homebuilthelp. When working with large aluminum sheets by yourself, it’s easier to roll them up. Reassembling this wing after all the deburring and prepped work to rivet. Then done with this one. #myzenith750
18 Nov, 2018 I generally like metal work. Prep work is easier if you think “I get to” rather than “I have to”. #myzenith750
11 Nov, 2018 Everyone waits until November and it’s in the low 40s before they power wash the deck right?
08 Nov, 2018 Another evening, another couple hundred holes. #myzenith750
05 Nov, 2018 Our mail carrier’s latest trick is to leave our stuff on a garbage can.
04 Nov, 2018 Each spar has 101 holes to be drilled. Then again on the top. Then repeat for the other wing. Oh and since these are pilot holes that need to be expanded I’ll drill each of these holes 2 more times. 1212 holes drilled just for the wing spars. I fully understand the grin people have on their first flight. Gotta earn it. #soreshoulders #myzenith750
31 Oct, 2018 Doesn’t seem like proper Halloween weather here.
22 Oct, 2018 One of the million things to do before the plane flies sometime next year is to come up with a flight test plan. It’s fairly daunting but turns out that EAA just released a guide book and flight test card set. Still seems super daunting but at least now I have an example framework to use. #myzenith750
17 Oct, 2018 What? Like your plane doesn’t need a night light. Don’t judge. #myzenith750
14 Oct, 2018 The most commonly asked question from experienced builders is how well the “match drilled holes” work out. The answer is “pretty good” with the exception of the skins. I had to deal with this on the fuselage in many areas and now the wing skins. #myzenith750
13 Oct, 2018 I’m like a commercial for the ball jar company. This is not an unusual number of homemade things in the works at any given time for me. Any guesses?
12 Oct, 2018 It’s a rough life.
12 Oct, 2018 Business meeting in Gatlinburg today. Always fun to be able to fly myself for work
08 Oct, 2018 Passenger side bottom wing skin day. #myzenith750
07 Oct, 2018 And flip. #myzenith750
02 Oct, 2018 Found out it’s extremely difficult to photograph a heads up display but I took a shot. Kinda see though. One of my side projects :)
01 Oct, 2018 Started using Strides (app) to encourage new habits. My Sept report for 30 mins of moderate to vigorous exercise isn’t too shabby. There are 12 other habits I’m working on with similar success. Sept was a good month.
29 Sep, 2018 Time for the first two burns of the fall.
28 Sep, 2018 Been probably 20 years since I burned myself with a soldering iron so I made sure this was a good one.
28 Sep, 2018 Rear spar complete. That was more rivets than I thought. But the night is cool, the tunes are awesome. Next up is skinning the wing! #myzenith750
28 Sep, 2018 Here we go again with riveting Friday nights.... #myzenith750
27 Sep, 2018 I’m ready to put the skin on this wing. I guess this means I have to stop using the space between the ribs as an excuse for not putting all of these parts and tools away. #myzenith750
24 Sep, 2018 Been chasing an electrical problem in my fuel system on my old Jeep for couple days. Found you you little bastard. Broken green wire no fuel.
22 Sep, 2018 Lunch?
21 Sep, 2018 Good eatin size
18 Sep, 2018 Graduated Navy boot camp 25 years ago today.
16 Sep, 2018 I’m thinking of becoming a weatherman. I called it almost exactly. The hurricane is passing over us right now. This far inland we have light rain one afternoon. Hardly even remarkable for a city that averages 40 inches of rainfall a year. I wonder what all the people in Asheville who hoarded bread, milk and gas are going to do with it all.
11 Sep, 2018 Airplanes and lies
07 Sep, 2018 Caleb took Ellie swimming at Hooker Falls. Kind of hard to tell who was having more fun.
02 Sep, 2018 Julie and I are going to have to alter our workout route. We’ve seen a bear in this location every day we been gone this way for about a week. He just ran from right to left 150 meters ahead. Going to start going the other way instead. #mountianlivingproblems
02 Sep, 2018 I’m on a “playing the long game with long game kinda people” kick lately. Putting my money where my mouth is. #myzenith750
01 Sep, 2018 Come visit Lisa and Randy at Tin Cat downtown Asheville today and tomorrow. Awesome art.
31 Aug, 2018 Even after hiking Julie has amazing hair. Great time with family we rarely get to see today.
28 Aug, 2018 Inside from the shop for 20 minutes before I noticed I’ve got a rivet stuck to my magnetic Fitbit band. #myzenith750
26 Aug, 2018 Random scene from my workout “loop”.
25 Aug, 2018 At GMU there’s a fantastic restaurant and playground right on the airfield. Anthony always pulls his Grumman Cheetah right up to the playground so kids can get a first hand experience.
25 Aug, 2018 Hazy as I turned over Greenville SC
25 Aug, 2018 Kinda wondering if they are doing sailing lessons at Lake Julian as I flew over.
24 Aug, 2018 I’ve gotten in the habit of working with sheet-metal with gloves on. Because when I don’t…
23 Aug, 2018 Today in adventures in (late) keto lunches: keto pizza. Came out great.
23 Aug, 2018 Seems silly to work inside on a day like today. Covered porch for the win. Elli thinks computers are boring though.
19 Aug, 2018 Was only two weeks ago but seems like longer #myzenith750
18 Aug, 2018 There’s actually more room in the garage with the Jeep (which needs some TLC) and lawn mower (and wing) than there was when the fuselage was in there.
16 Aug, 2018 With the fuselage at the hangar it’s now weeknight wings work at home. #myzenith750
14 Aug, 2018 6 planes came over and 30 or more people including several new/curious at our EAA cookout.
14 Aug, 2018 Nosewheel. Almost. Sigh. #myzenith750
12 Aug, 2018 Nosewheel and strut are done. Painted the strut a metallic black for now. It’ll go on the plane Tuesday when I swing by the hangar. #myzenith750
12 Aug, 2018 Today in adventures in keto lunches… Strawberry post workout shake
11 Aug, 2018 On my bucket list is to fly an airplane I built myself to AirVenture in Oshkosh. If 2019 is the year for this, the clock is ticking. #myzenith750 #eaa #osh19
11 Aug, 2018 Didn’t even over engineer the hole template for this. I have a CMC and could have made a jig but this was faster #myzenith750
10 Aug, 2018 I died by Zombie. #betrayal
10 Aug, 2018 Today in adventures in keto lunches... everything “bagels”
09 Aug, 2018 Much more room in the hangar than my garage :) #myzenith750
07 Aug, 2018 It’s light enough that we just carried it on and off the trailer. #myzenith750
06 Aug, 2018 Today in experiments in new Keto lunches we have Egg Loaf with Caramel flavored oil
05 Aug, 2018 Keto blueberry mug cake turned out really well.
01 Aug, 2018 Firewall is almost done. Mr Metal man on the angle drill. #myzenith750
29 Jul, 2018 Need to put the nose gear on it to move to the hangar so firewall is next. #myzenith750
27 Jul, 2018 If you’ve been here you know.
26 Jul, 2018 Current state of affairs: Sitting behind a DC-3 with Julie, the moon is trying to peek through the clouds and a Sonex Microjet is doing aerobatics.
26 Jul, 2018 That’s a lotta LEDs
26 Jul, 2018 Attempt at the night airshow round two.
26 Jul, 2018 T-28 start up
25 Jul, 2018 Aaannnddd night airshow cancelled
25 Jul, 2018 Night air show time.
25 Jul, 2018 Zenith Aircraft is now apparently doing a camper kit. I looked for wings. Nadda. Maybe it’s supposed to be a lifting body. Hoist it to 35k feet on the belly of a B-52 with the family on board and the let the screamcation begin.
25 Jul, 2018 Good morning Airventure
24 Jul, 2018 Fitbit says this is not my all time high step day.
24 Jul, 2018 Boop-Oop-a-Doop #airventure2018
23 Jul, 2018 Uhhh
23 Jul, 2018 Anyone need a bike?
23 Jul, 2018 Gary Sinise Foundation
23 Jul, 2018 Super excited Ford is bringing the Ranger back.
22 Jul, 2018 You can’t question my coffee commitment. The entire purpose of this setup is camping coffee.
21 Jul, 2018 Takes 2 hours to put up a free standing 3 hammock rig in a field but makes a pretty cool result. #airventure2018
21 Jul, 2018 It’s time. #airventure2018
21 Jul, 2018 Raining.
21 Jul, 2018 We set up base camp in record time. Even beat the rain. #airventure2018
20 Jul, 2018 Current state of my life.
19 Jul, 2018 Planning lunch with Caleb to go over his new business ideas. Pho and sailboat restoration much?
14 Jul, 2018 I’m good at getting the interns when donating blood.
13 Jul, 2018 Exactly 25 years ago I embarked on what seemed like a crazy adventure to a suburban kid from Chicago. I had absolutely no idea how it would build on the foundation my parents instilled in me and became core to who I am as an adult.
13 Jul, 2018 On a new training program. Julie is strength training, Caleb is just starting Budo Taijutsu. I don’t want to be left behind in our family fitness quest.
11 Jul, 2018 I pick three to five new Japanese words to learn every day at random (yes I wrote an app for it). Sometimes it makes for strange combinations...
11 Jul, 2018 Gary gives a play by play as Mike G washes his plane. Mike G is the guy who says with pride “I’ve not washed this plane in 10 years”. We think he may have been switched with a clone by Aliens.
11 Jul, 2018 Hendersonville airport grass runway last night.
08 Jul, 2018 Hard to tell until we move the table under it but it’s on it’s own landing gear for the first time. #myzenith750
08 Jul, 2018 He looks good working hard. Just happened to pass by him on the way to my hangar.
08 Jul, 2018 Got to fly a terrific new airplane and made a new friend. Over the Mount Mitchell visitors center, around Mountain Air Airport and back in about 1/2 the time it usually takes. RV-10s are fast :)
08 Jul, 2018 New RV-10 in Asheville is my chariot today. It’s a rough life.
06 Jul, 2018 Managed to snag a way too short lunch with family visiting from Norway.
05 Jul, 2018 Making scale paper models to see if we can get a Zenith 750 and an RV-6A in a 48 foot T hanger together. #myzenith750
04 Jul, 2018 Channeling my inner JJ Abrams. #lensflare
04 Jul, 2018 I found a pretty lady.
04 Jul, 2018 Adventure happens to adventurers.
04 Jul, 2018 Last task before weight on wheels. Trying to hurry now because a hangar opened at AVL at the end of the month and we want to roll it onto the trailer rather than carry it. #myzenith750
04 Jul, 2018 Caleb’s always been a metalworking kinda guy. Since I’m making an all metal plane he doesn’t need much arm twisting. Now if the camera man would put down the camera to hold the piece..:. #myzenith750
03 Jul, 2018 New glasses from Zeni are 35 bucks. Sheesh that’s a good deal.
02 Jul, 2018 My planner has themes for the week. Some are better than others. Some are worth sharing.
02 Jul, 2018 Will they be friends? Maybe. Will they mildly tolerate each other? More likely.
30 Jun, 2018 It’s very difficult to be unhappy if you’re grateful. This is one of the LESS scenic parts of my workout loop.
30 Jun, 2018 Hey, I know that guy on page 24 of Sport Aviation magazine.
30 Jun, 2018 Wheels! #myzenith750
30 Jun, 2018 Wheel hubs. Check. Brake calipers. Check. Rotors. Check. Tools. Check. Baby powder... sigh. Check. Imma have fresh smelling wheels. #myzenith750
29 Jun, 2018 One of my favorite things about small town living is the little things. A real barber shop with men talking about manly things on a Friday morning is one of them.
27 Jun, 2018 In 1986 or so I asked for a Dremel for Christmas. This old thing helped me build model railroads, model planes and any number of projects over the years as an adult. I was a free range kid before there was a name for it. It shaped who I am. My parents bought power tools for their 10 year old and I still have all of my original fingers. Anyway it finally died. I feel kinda sad about it. So I bought another one. Here’s to another 32 years of making crap with Dremel tools.
25 Jun, 2018 Ingredients to build an airplane include... baby powder??? #myzenith750
23 Jun, 2018 A VERY gusty crosswind landing to a completely empty airport. #notmyprettiestlanding
20 Jun, 2018 Through Aviation I’ve become friends with so many people of all ages and backgrounds. Dave smiles like this every second he’s flying.
20 Jun, 2018 Landing gear minus the wheels. I’ll tighten the bolts down when I am done measuring to make sure it’s aligned correctly #myzenith750
20 Jun, 2018 Couple of my favorite people are helping Grandpa build garden steps today.
16 Jun, 2018 My riveter is prettier than yours. #myzenith750
11 Jun, 2018 Monday evening blues. Doing it anyway. No build no fly. #myzenith750
11 Jun, 2018 Now THIS is an office.
10 Jun, 2018 My chariot for the afternoon. Not too shabby.
09 Jun, 2018 Was really on a roll on the landing gear until I overheated my compressor motor. Apparently I have a better duty cycle than an 8 gallon compressor. #myzenith750
09 Jun, 2018 I’m always surprised by how nice but underutilized the Rutherfordton airport is. I’m thinking that my Zenith flight testing will be here if they have an available hangar.
08 Jun, 2018 Flew through the mountain pass where Chimney Rock is. You can see where the parking lot slid down the hill during the flooding last week.
08 Jun, 2018 Had to divert on my flight home. Someone blew a tire and “exited” the end of the runway. Landing at another airport sounded cheaper than holding in the air for a hour.
08 Jun, 2018 Been thinking about my NEXT plane build. This is high on the list. Maybe in a different color though.
08 Jun, 2018 The flying club airplanes and civil air patrol are lined up like little soldiers this morning
06 Jun, 2018 Flipped a coin on which wing to start first. Heads was the call so the right wing it is. #myzenith750
02 Jun, 2018 Did some repairs on Marc’s GPS unit. The backup battery was buried and soldered to the board. Sheesh.
30 May, 2018 Building airplanes is hard on my hands. My knuckles are finally healed from the last thing and now I skip a cutoff wheel across a longeron and nick it again. #itsjustafleshwound #myzenith750
28 May, 2018 Still unsure about these seats :)
28 May, 2018 These seats are not too shabby
23 May, 2018 Wing delivery day #myzenith750
18 May, 2018 My Rosie the riveter pose. She did it better but I’m having fun anyway. #myzenith750
18 May, 2018 NOW it’s really looking like an airplane. #myzenith750
18 May, 2018 Attach the cockpit assembly to the plane day. Woot! #myzenith750
15 May, 2018 Tonight I arranged for three men who were T-38 Instructors to give a talk about some of their experiences. It was much much funnier than I expected. What a great privilege it is to not only know these guys but to get to call them my friends.
12 May, 2018 My co pilot is hotter than yours.
12 May, 2018 Hmm, that looks like a runway...
03 May, 2018 My Dad and a boat. Life is good.
01 May, 2018 Spent the afternoon watching my friend Simon do his Private Pilot Exam at Rutherford airport. The newest pilot in the US at this very moment is a Brit! Congratulations buddy!
30 Apr, 2018 When you have a CNC in your shop making things like stands for your sprout jars takes 5 minutes.
28 Apr, 2018 When we moved to the mountains 6 years ago we dreamed of no commute, quiet evenings with a book on the covered porch together, tea or bourbon and a view of nature. Do yourself a favor and jump off a cliff. It’s worth it.
28 Apr, 2018 Pretty girl in an airplane. Life is good.
23 Apr, 2018 I want to do the Zenith logo on my instrument panel (and a couple other places) in aluminum. Test run on hdpe turned out great. #myzenith750 #zenithaircraft #homebuiltaircraft
21 Apr, 2018 Hopped over to Greenville for lunch in the Skylane.
21 Apr, 2018 Flying Young eagles again today. Jeff has a plane full of female Civil Air Patrol cadets.
20 Apr, 2018 The Test carve they include was boring so I changed it to something a little more up my alley.
20 Apr, 2018 It’s alive. Woot. #inventables
19 Apr, 2018 These guys have a new definition of “some assembly required”. This is like step 420... and that’s coming from someone building an airplane. #inventables
17 Apr, 2018 Tonight I'm giving a seminar called "So, you want to build an airplane?". 7pm at 21 Aviation Way at the Asheville Airport. All of the cool kids are coming.
14 Apr, 2018 I’ve always considered myself a dog person. I like cats, but somewhat indifferent. Valentine has decided that I’m her person. She follows me around and is almost frantic to get into my lap sometimes. It’s easier on my ego if I think of her as a stealthy murder machine rather than a fluffy lap cat.
14 Apr, 2018 Time to put the fuselage halves together and cover up the arm biting chefs knife features of this plane. #myzenith750
11 Apr, 2018 Fort Sumter boat and tour. No too shabby.
10 Apr, 2018 Caleb can no longer say “I’ve never been on a submarine before”. Museum ships totally count.
10 Apr, 2018 One of the things I find most odd about the 1950s refit of the Yorktown was the addition of a Westinghouse escalator. It seems really out of place.
10 Apr, 2018 Caleb on his sit in all of the Captain chairs quest. This one is the USS Laffey
10 Apr, 2018 Caleb in the Captain’s chair of the USS Yorktown
07 Apr, 2018 From fuselage/cockpit base is done and getting riveted. #myzenith750
07 Apr, 2018 The only way to do a thousand hour project… One hour at a time. #myzenith750
31 Mar, 2018 Today was the first time I’ve flown without any passengers in more than two years. Here are some random picture since I couldn’t look at what I was taking pictures of.
31 Mar, 2018 Flying 25 kids today. It’s a rough life.
29 Mar, 2018 Guess which drillbit I don’t have a replacement for? #myzenith750
28 Mar, 2018 About a twentieth of the brush and tree junk in my yard I need to burn.
28 Mar, 2018 Setting up my instrument unpanel back in the CNC. #myzenith750
24 Mar, 2018 Grandpa’s concrete drilling crew.
23 Mar, 2018 Instrument approaches in Wes’s Lancair. Yes please.
20 Mar, 2018 Challenge accepted
19 Mar, 2018 It’s time to build the airplanes
17 Mar, 2018 My grandfather served in the 38 Bomber Group in the Pacific in WWII. Turns out someone is still making replica patches and I picked one up for my flight jacket.
17 Mar, 2018 Rudder pedal install time. Loving this nicer weather. #myzenith750
14 Mar, 2018 A light dusting they said
13 Mar, 2018 I love seeing people do things that scare them.
10 Mar, 2018 I asked Miss Shaina (@glitter_supergirl96) if she had any dinner ideas. “Captn Crunch breaded chicken” she said. Ask and you shall receive. It’s wrong how awesome it turned out.
10 Mar, 2018 The dog helped with the chicken breading. Can you tell?
08 Mar, 2018 Just when you thought it was feeling like spring. #mountainlife
07 Mar, 2018 Lake Jocassee
05 Mar, 2018 Surprising amount of activity at this pretty remote airport.
04 Mar, 2018 We were “followed” by a phenom jet into Macon County airport. We were out of the plane and almost done refueling before he was on the ground.
04 Mar, 2018 Well that’s an interesting camping location. By looking at our flyover altitude I’d say that tent is at 6000 feet.
04 Mar, 2018 I’ll take bumps climbing over the mountains to keeping my feet on the ground any day. #pilotproblems
03 Mar, 2018 Freezing garage/shop doesn’t stop me from drilling cockpit floor holes. #myzenith750
25 Feb, 2018 Been on a spy novel kick lately. Rainy day kitchen shenanigans.
24 Feb, 2018 She has wings! Makes me really look forward to getting to this point with my Zenith. Only took 5 people to get them on.
24 Feb, 2018 Putting wings on an RV-8. What else would we be doing? #pilotthuglife
22 Feb, 2018 Coughlin's Law
17 Feb, 2018 Someone was giving away an older PFD by Grand Rapids. It powers on (after I found a pinout diagram) and seems to be working. Will make a good test platform or secondary instrument system.
17 Feb, 2018 Back to plane building #myzenith750
16 Feb, 2018 How’s this for an eBay find? My 209 patch is on my very very old flight jacket and I was hoping to find one. Boom.
14 Feb, 2018 Taking a look at a 1954 Piper Tri Pacer that’s for sale. Fabric covered magic carpet.
11 Feb, 2018 I don’t know exactly what this is but it seems like something I probably need
11 Feb, 2018 Actually the first time I’ve seen Pocari in the US
09 Feb, 2018 Doing that one was actually sort of a relief.
06 Feb, 2018 SpaceX. Is. Awesome.
29 Jan, 2018 We all need many quvality in our lives
26 Jan, 2018 Pretty sure I have the very first customer delivery of the @zenithaircraft Unpanel mount. It’s a little heavier than I expected. #myzenith750
25 Jan, 2018 I have always loved the airport and much prefer boarding this way. #lovethesmellofjetfuel
24 Jan, 2018 They started making snow and it’s blowing up onto my balcony.
23 Jan, 2018 I wonder if this fireplace will fit in my suitcase...
06 Jan, 2018 Space heater on an arrow target on a ladder to thaw an exterior bathroom sink pipe. So thankful to whatever engineer invented PEX piping and it’s anti burst properties.
31 Dec, 2017 #2017bestnine
29 Dec, 2017 OMG so much this
25 Dec, 2017 My Fing network security system detected an intruder last night.
22 Dec, 2017 Getting in the Holiday Spirit with Mike from Able Septic.
21 Dec, 2017 It took 5 people 6 hours to find the septic tank on our property today. #goodtimes
19 Dec, 2017 Family selfie while Pnut is home. My wife is a very stoic person.
16 Dec, 2017 Seems like I was having Bitcoin 10k discussions two weeks ago. Oh wait, that’s exactly when. #woot
09 Dec, 2017 Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I’m sitting on my front porch that we actually live here.
08 Dec, 2017 If you were a student at Highland Elementary between 1983 and 1986 you would not have been able to check this book out. The checkout card had my name on every line for three years.
03 Dec, 2017 Caleb and I Spent the day helping Jerry with the annual inspection on his Quickie. Not only did the engine not have any parts left over when we put it back together, it even started… #pilotthuglife
29 Nov, 2017 Ahh the good ol days when engine instruments and fuel gauges were outside the aircraft.
29 Nov, 2017 I moved away from DC and took a huge cut in pay to get away from exactly this.
28 Nov, 2017 Feels like when you catch your odometer a mile before the 100k mark
15 Nov, 2017 Oh it’s gonna be a good day...
14 Nov, 2017 I am both fascinated and intimidated by this book
07 Nov, 2017 That’s a lot of love right there. It goes on for a while.
07 Nov, 2017 We’ve had two solos in our EAA Chapter this month. So awesome.
06 Nov, 2017 Deliveries from @zenithaircraft are my favorite #myzenith750
27 Oct, 2017 For a flight in a plane with no auto pilot my track was pretty straight. Could have done without the 25 knot headwind, but the freedom beats flying commercial any day.
27 Oct, 2017 My co pilot is creepier than yours. #pilotthuglife
25 Oct, 2017 Headed to DC for a @simply_home meeting with the VA. I brought my own autopilot who flew probably 80% of the trip
21 Oct, 2017 Julie and I are at the Asheville symphony dragging down the age curve.
21 Oct, 2017 I do love how easy the wings fold on this plane.
21 Oct, 2017 First time flying a Just Aircraft Highlander. Pretty sure the airplane is even still usable after my landing. #pilotthuglife
21 Oct, 2017 Happened to catch a Zenith 750 on the field today. @zenithaircraft
21 Oct, 2017 Flying 37 young eagles this morning. @eaachapter1016 @eaa
15 Oct, 2017 Forward fuselage work this morning now on hold until I find a bandsaw to trim the longerons #myzenith750
13 Oct, 2017 This word must be clearly displayed to passengers in my airplane. Very few airplane words make me more excited even if it freaks a lot of people out #myzenith750
12 Oct, 2017 Just want to shout out to @zenithaircraft for making the solidworks model available. Taking measurements for creating an @xplaneofficial model of a Cruzer is about 100 times easier now
08 Oct, 2017 Windy and rainy today so I’m working on the @zenithaircraft model wireframes for @xplaneofficial #myzenith750
06 Oct, 2017 Pretty sure when this airplane was built there was absolutely nothing right here.
06 Oct, 2017 Late afternoon flight to practice Instrument approaches with a great friend #pilotthuglife
06 Oct, 2017 No shenanigans going on over here. All serious all the time
06 Oct, 2017 1920s Ford Tri Motor is here. Come take a ride with us.
05 Oct, 2017 Betrayal expansion pack time.
02 Oct, 2017 I’ve been doing keto for a while now. My resting heart rate is down to 54, I’ve lost 27 pounds and this is the highest my blood sugar has been about a week. #eatalltheavocados
01 Oct, 2017 Join us at the Asheville airport to take a ride in the Ford Tri Motor Fri, Sat and Sun. Only 199 were ever produced.
01 Oct, 2017 Great thing about doing the plane build in the garage is that any free 30 minutes means progress. Will be much harder when it’s too big to fit in here and I need to finish it at the airport #myzenith750
30 Sep, 2017 Found a cool frame for my B-29 by @philschmidtco
29 Sep, 2017 Dennis asked me to help with some soldering and avionics work on his RV-8. We even managed to get successfully call the tower. #eaa #eaa1016 #pilotthuglife
24 Sep, 2017 At the end of the @zenithaircraft banquet last night the guys from Avolution did a little flyby on their way home. Now I want an Eclipse 500...
23 Sep, 2017 While I am in Missouri at Zenith, my good friends Jerry and Nancy went to a Quickie fly in in Iowa. That’s a lot of Q’s
23 Sep, 2017 Roger showing off the short takeoff of the 750 SD @zenithaircraft
23 Sep, 2017 This unpainted cruiser has the Viking engine that I’m buying. I can’t believe how quiet it is. Standing just 10 feet from it
23 Sep, 2017 I don’t have the patience to do a polish finish on my airplane. But it’s pretty gorgeous.
23 Sep, 2017 Roger’s 701. Sweet.
23 Sep, 2017 More airplanes today. It’s a tough life
22 Sep, 2017 This is the second time I’ve met Jack Pelton and heard him speak in two months. @eaa @eaachapter1016
22 Sep, 2017 Ever been in an Elk lodge? Yeah me either.
22 Sep, 2017 I’m at Zenith Aircraft for the next two days to network, be inspired, and make airplane noises. #manitshothere
15 Sep, 2017 We are hosting one of the first real commercial airliners in Asheville in a few weeks. Come on down to see it and take a ride.
15 Sep, 2017 Inspiration is for amateurs
13 Sep, 2017 Sigh
10 Sep, 2017 My head is always in the clouds these days.
09 Sep, 2017 Today is life
08 Sep, 2017 This book took the slow boat from Japan. I ordered it in May and it came today.
03 Sep, 2017 A life lesson from Ray Bradbury
02 Sep, 2017 Thinking about flying to Hangar Days in Mexico MO if the weather cooperates. #pilotthuglife
02 Sep, 2017 I randomly stumbled on this podcast. I worked for Dr Achacoso for several years at a startup. He's as interesting in real life as he sounds on this podcast and is a dear friend. Funny how small the world is sometimes.
01 Sep, 2017 I now have a business reason to work on this rating. I've heard the written part of the exam is a doosey
24 Aug, 2017 Respect the quiet
23 Aug, 2017 I need this sticker. Also one that says "There's no crying in my airplane"
21 Aug, 2017 The clouds literally parted for 4 minutes where we were today at the exact time.
21 Aug, 2017 Clouds moved out just in time.
21 Aug, 2017 In the path of totality and the clouds rolled in 6 minutes ago. Oh well.
20 Aug, 2017 Building myself a standing desk today. Julie had some leftover black stain from a previous project that worked out pretty well for this.
18 Aug, 2017 Sim time
15 Aug, 2017 Looks like my ride is here.
08 Aug, 2017 A friend of mine just got to log some time in a Honda Jet. #pilotthuglife #girlsflythehondatoday
07 Aug, 2017 My ledger came a month early
05 Aug, 2017 How fun are pancake breakfasts at the airport? Jerry dancing fun. That's how fun.
05 Aug, 2017 My breakfast company this morning is amazing
02 Aug, 2017 When you drive an old truck sometimes you got to spend Wednesday night giving it a little love
31 Jul, 2017 I did manage to get Proteus climbing out
28 Jul, 2017 It cracks me up that Jim Lovell is wearing the same weekly Airventure admission bracelet as Julie and me. Like someone is going to stop him at the gate for not paying or something.
28 Jul, 2017 Theater in the woods tonight: Walt Cunningham, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Buzz Aldrin, Dick Gordon, Fred Haise, Al Worden, Jack Schmitt, Joe Engle and flight director Gene Kranz. BOOM
28 Jul, 2017 Waiting on the Apollo Astronauts, listening to a Q&A with the Blue Angels pilots. Good thing they put up a jumbo tron because this place is packed.
28 Jul, 2017 Blue Angels are practicing right on top of us again
28 Jul, 2017 Breakfast outside is my favorite. Even if it's 54 degrees
27 Jul, 2017 The great nose art hunt of 2017 continues
27 Jul, 2017 More nose art for @julie_thorn
27 Jul, 2017 A beaver? I'll take two.
26 Jul, 2017 Julie and I are collecting all kinds of nose art to get ideas for what we want to do on our plane. Just stumbled on these.
26 Jul, 2017 I'm building this. Only in red. Or yellow. Can't decide. #pilotthuglife #myzenith750
26 Jul, 2017 I'm building an airplane that I've never seen or been in. In person at least. Achievement unlocked. #myzenith750
26 Jul, 2017 We fit! #myzenith750
26 Jul, 2017 Oh look, a pretty
26 Jul, 2017 Look what I found #pilotthuglife #airventure2017
25 Jul, 2017 Hey look, Jack Pelton at the Chapter Presidents event
25 Jul, 2017 Warbird air show just kicking off
25 Jul, 2017 Base camp for the week. I've never seen so many people camping in one place in my life.
24 Jul, 2017 Looks weird. Tastes amazing.
24 Jul, 2017 It's Portillo's time
22 Jul, 2017 Mike and Simon are setting up at our chapter campsite. Getting excited. #airventure2017 #pilotthuglife
19 Jul, 2017 We're turning so fast I can't even tell we're turning. #somethingaintright
19 Jul, 2017 Outbound to Martinsville VA was clear and calm. On the way back we dodged thunderstorms for more than an hour #pilotthuglife
19 Jul, 2017 Preflighting to Martinsville on the ramp with a 53. #pilotthuglife
18 Jul, 2017 The sous vide makes it almost too easy
18 Jul, 2017 There's a good chance my steak is bigger than your steak tonight. #ahhthesousvidetogrillmethod
17 Jul, 2017 Caleb and Shaina are off on the first long road trip for both of them. #michiganorbust
16 Jul, 2017 My parents brought peaches back from South Carolina so I turned it into health food
13 Jul, 2017 I promise I did not run into any docks right after this. #toosmoothforthat
12 Jul, 2017 "That thing sounds like an angry food processor..." #pilotthuglife
11 Jul, 2017 EAA meeting always includes airplanes
09 Jul, 2017 That 2x4 isn't just blocking my view. It's a project I forgot to finish and now it's mocking me. But there's beer so...
06 Jul, 2017 Realized this afternoon that I've never made Coquilles St-Jacques. Since it's a special occasion (Thursday) I took a crack at it.
05 Jul, 2017 Finally found a solution to have both English and Japanese keyboard layouts on my laptop.
04 Jul, 2017 It's not even pouring rain up here. Yet.
04 Jul, 2017 Our annual July 4th hike doesn't include fireworks or... horses. But thunderstorms when the car is a couple miles down a trail...
30 Jun, 2017 My Grandmother collected elephants. Every time we're in a shop Julie has to go look at them
30 Jun, 2017 An epic battle begins
28 Jun, 2017 Amazon echo show came today.
26 Jun, 2017 I'm doing a mostly self designed custom instrument panel in my plane. The very first component arrived today. AHRS number 1 #myzenith750
22 Jun, 2017 Ahhh, the warm glow of row after row of passive income
20 Jun, 2017 Spent a few minutes during our lunch scoping out a possible place to build a hangar
18 Jun, 2017 Ahh the soothing C64 blue on blue. On my PocketChip. Awesome.
17 Jun, 2017 Cancelled a lunch flight to Columbia SC at a famous BBQ place. Pfft, I don't even see any red storms. Whatever weather dude.
16 Jun, 2017 This just throw it in the basement and we will sort it out later policy might have gotten a little out of hand #atleastitscooldownhere
06 Jun, 2017 Pretty good for a Tuesday considering I worked all day
06 Jun, 2017 Build a new garden bed after dinner... sure I can do that
03 Jun, 2017 Some of the aircraft maneuvering at today's event felt a lot like my time on aircraft carrier flight decks
03 Jun, 2017 Landing was even shorter. Sheesh
03 Jun, 2017 Now that's a short takeoff. This is the owner of Just Aircraft in SC showing off.
03 Jun, 2017 Caleb rejects the libation menu at Grove Park
03 Jun, 2017 Darwin just finished building this RV-4.
03 Jun, 2017 Leo's Corby Starlet
03 Jun, 2017 One of my favorite airplanes
01 Jun, 2017 Five years ago today some space nerds ran through the D.C. rain to get burgers. #glxp #goodoldaysofglxp
27 May, 2017 Building the baggage compartment this morning. Don't worry, gripping a bulletproof coffee. #myzenith750
26 May, 2017 My first ever windows 10 blue screen. Oh blue screen of death how I've missed thee
23 May, 2017 Workaholics aren't heroes
23 May, 2017 Back to working hard on Evadot again (finally). That's an encouraging graph. #thesamethingwedoeverynightpinky
21 May, 2017 There are a lot of rivets on this thing.
20 May, 2017 My breakfast always looks more appealing before I turn this thing on....
16 May, 2017 Flight review is done. No photos for obvious reasons but it's good to know another qualified person still thinks I can fly.
15 May, 2017 Two years ago today Mr Jones grilled me for hours both on the ground and in the air. At the end he gave me a pilots license. Don't wait to chase your dreams. #pilotthuglife
14 May, 2017 Shaky camera because of mountain turbulence today. Was bad enough that Julie skipped lunch. #pilotthuglife
13 May, 2017 Prototype for skid slip indicator
13 May, 2017 I'm super happy with how bright this is. I think It might even be bright enough in full sunlight in a cockpit.
11 May, 2017 Turns out sprouts are really easy to grow in your kitchen for pennies.
11 May, 2017 I learned to solder as a kid but got really good in the Navy Avionics school. But for some reason I started whistling when I solder and I still do that. Hmmm. Anyway, my EAA Innovation Prize hardware is coming along nicely.
10 May, 2017 As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. -Thoreau
10 May, 2017 It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -Henry David Thoreau
10 May, 2017 Taking some time off
09 May, 2017 Formula SAE presentation? Yes please.
08 May, 2017 My buddy bought an LS4
07 May, 2017 Compact low power LIDAR just arrived. Woot!
04 May, 2017 Parts from Adafruit arrived. Can you guess what I'm making? #thesamethingwedoeverynightpinky
03 May, 2017 Using sketchup to play around with some instrument panel designs #myzenith750
30 Apr, 2017 Pilot thug life.
30 Apr, 2017 I really wish Grumman still made these. I love flying them.
30 Apr, 2017 Ahh, the 70s. When they thought ash trays in small planes was a good idea.
30 Apr, 2017 I like the panel layout and color in this Cheetah.
30 Apr, 2017 Landing a Grumman Cheetah from the right seat at Hendersonville with a lot of forward slip.
29 Apr, 2017 I'll bet your whiskey doesn't have Darth Vader ice cubes.
28 Apr, 2017 When you carry too much speed to the runway you level off... and... float... float... aaaannnddd touch down. Sheesh. Full flight here: http://buff.ly/2pe9j3f #pilotproblems
28 Apr, 2017 Took my Dad flying. I never hit my head on airplane wings. Not this guy.
25 Apr, 2017 Starting to look like something now. #myzenith750
25 Apr, 2017 Pro tip: if you're going to mount cameras in a plane... actually put them in all of the mounts you set up. Duh.
21 Apr, 2017 Sending the cabin frame off to get powder coated
13 Apr, 2017 Landing an old beat up Piper Warrior at Hendersonville airport
08 Apr, 2017 Does this count for my airplane's first barrel roll?
07 Apr, 2017 Sorry Elli but I think it may be time to retire this ball to the garbage can in the sky. RIP.
03 Apr, 2017 I wonder why the dog is having trouble settling down in her crate tonight...
01 Apr, 2017 Started the day getting Boy Scouts excited about experimental aviation and ended it with some good progress on my fuselage skin.
27 Mar, 2017 This was my "birthday cake" at work today.
25 Mar, 2017 That's almost enough coffee. But I can quit any time. I just don't want to. #myzenith750
24 Mar, 2017 Oh look my airplane fuselage is here. Some assembly required. #myzenith750
20 Mar, 2017 A bad day fishing is always better than a good day working.
18 Mar, 2017 Elevator is ready to be riveted. #myzenith750
18 Mar, 2017 This is the seventh thing I've made out of the scrap wood from the crate my airplane tail came in. And I think I almost threw it all away.
16 Mar, 2017 Hard to read but this says "Quicken back up". Good thing I kept it. Super important I'm sure.
12 Mar, 2017 Detecting spins in small aircraft
11 Mar, 2017 Always wanted to farm mushrooms. I have fresh cut trees so I figure what the heck.
07 Mar, 2017 I wonder if I can still redeem this. #glxp
26 Feb, 2017 We got a table with the plane we took to this restaurant in Greenville in the background.
25 Feb, 2017 Building a table to build the fuselage on. #airplanebuilderproblems #zenith750cruzer
24 Feb, 2017 Taking Friday fish fry up a notch.
19 Feb, 2017 Julie just got this glass luminary. What could possibly go wrong with it's current location?
18 Feb, 2017 *internally squees*
11 Feb, 2017 Friend of mine recently bought a Thomas Kincade
09 Feb, 2017 Go first
07 Feb, 2017 Airplane talk and great beer last night. French Broad Gateway Kolsch
06 Feb, 2017 Testing out the Apple AirPods. Still undecided.
04 Feb, 2017 ‪Julie and started up a Cessna to go out for lunch and shut it back down. No vacuum pump no fly. :(‬
01 Feb, 2017 Time to hook up the Nintendo Classic.
30 Jan, 2017 Caught the USS San Antonio leaving port this weekend.
23 Jan, 2017 It's time to play "will it sous vide" as we clean the fridge.
22 Jan, 2017 The neighbors cows got out
21 Jan, 2017 Battery powered ADS-B IN, dual band and GPS for under $150. Now to add an in cockpit voice interface.
20 Jan, 2017 That board game "Operation" has relevant real world skill applications...
17 Jan, 2017 Probably be me in a number of years. Sitting at the airport watching planes and listening to the tower frequency.
13 Jan, 2017 Continuing my trend of flying airplanes older than I am. Despite its worn appearance this is a terrific airplane
12 Jan, 2017 This takes a minute to read but a lifetime to master.
03 Jan, 2017 Digging out after vacation is wrong
24 Dec, 2016 The Asheville airport weather reporter thinks red noses are not appropriate aircraft lighting....
23 Dec, 2016 Rules for pilots
23 Dec, 2016 Got to take a gander at an actual flying Steerman. I'm gonna need one of these.
18 Dec, 2016 When you're looking through a random box in the basement and find gold.
14 Dec, 2016 Picked up one or two bugs on the windshield on takeoff. Sheesh.
11 Dec, 2016 Number 22 is my favorite
07 Dec, 2016 75 Years ago today
04 Dec, 2016 How about Caldera?
04 Dec, 2016 Wow who remembers VA Linux?
04 Dec, 2016 At some point over the last 15 years my huge music collection on CD!has been reduced to about 10 piles like these...
26 Nov, 2016 No arrival
21 Nov, 2016 There comes a time in every young man's life...
19 Nov, 2016 Crappy weather so no flying today. Always time to build airplanes though
19 Nov, 2016 Spent the day yesterday with a local high school aviation club.
18 Nov, 2016 Would you like to give my Cherokee a test drive? Okay twist my arm.
17 Nov, 2016 Cleaning some office stuff up and I found a pile of old business plans
15 Nov, 2016 Caleb just bought his first car
12 Nov, 2016 No no no
06 Nov, 2016 Already running out of places to put completed components
02 Nov, 2016 Fishing is more funner than workin.
24 Oct, 2016 Very different Fridays
18 Oct, 2016 B-17 Cockpit view and Bombardier Position Videos
18 Oct, 2016 Not an average tourist picture :-)
17 Oct, 2016 Checking things off of bucket lists
11 Oct, 2016 It's B-17 Time
17 Aug, 2016 Little blue lights
16 Aug, 2016 Detecting and predicting loss of control in flight
13 Aug, 2016 Great day for flying
04 Aug, 2016 Back to building
26 Jul, 2016 So about Star Wars...
20 Jul, 2016 First Flight for "Doc"
18 Jul, 2016 A case of the mondays
09 Jul, 2016 I must have all of the maps
28 Jun, 2016 More chip pile measuring
26 Apr, 2016 Measuring chip piles with Unmanned Vehicles
21 Apr, 2016 Did you know that many states have extra requirements to operate UAS in that state?
17 Apr, 2016 Ideas are mostly worthless on their own
04 Apr, 2016 The April fools prank I wish was real
02 Apr, 2016 Don't be a fool, stay in school
01 Apr, 2016 Confession Time
27 Mar, 2016 Being yourself
21 Mar, 2016 Shot some real estate this weekend
21 Mar, 2016 The luxury of being ordinary
20 Mar, 2016 Don't be comfortable
17 Mar, 2016 JJ Abrams newest documentary series episode two features my dear friend Robert
14 Mar, 2016 FAA Administrator Talks Drones at SXSW
14 Mar, 2016 Evaluating Event38 for post UAS Flight mission processing
10 Mar, 2016 First "REAL" 3D Maps with my 3DRobotics Solo
08 Mar, 2016 Docker images for Dronekit
07 Mar, 2016 Launch yourself on every wave
04 Mar, 2016 How to spot successful people
26 Feb, 2016 I *may* need to get a handle on my workspace today. Good Grief.
25 Feb, 2016 A dying art
25 Feb, 2016 Luck is useful
22 Feb, 2016 A hard left turn for me
21 Feb, 2016 What a view!
20 Feb, 2016 EAA Leadership Bootcamp
14 Feb, 2016 What bothers me the most
01 Feb, 2016 Adding two new goals for 2016
29 Jan, 2016 I've always been an instigator
29 Jan, 2016 Why didn't anyone tell me about "Four Chord Song"?
21 Jan, 2016 What does a UAS pilot do to prepare for a huge snow storm?
29 Dec, 2015 Just requested to add these new UAS models to my "fleet"
10 Dec, 2015 Aerial work at a llama farm. Why didn't someone tell me llama's are so awesome?!?
30 Nov, 2015 Defining a UAS operating area with Flight Service is a snap
30 Nov, 2015 Experimentation Platform for UAS Systems with CHIP
20 Nov, 2015 I'm an FAA Approved Commercial UAS Pilot!
20 Nov, 2015 I hate the use of the word drone
19 Nov, 2015 New FPV Setup
09 Nov, 2015 Automation testing
07 Nov, 2015 Unedited first day at the Asheville Model Aircraft club
06 Nov, 2015 "Drone" avoids obstacles autonomously at 30mph
06 Nov, 2015 Gimbal testing
24 Oct, 2015 Don't aspire to mediocrity
21 Oct, 2015 The new venture
31 Aug, 2015 A new moleskin
30 Aug, 2015 Took an old Piper Warrior out for a spin
30 Aug, 2015 Blast from the past
29 Aug, 2015 Don't feed the bears?
28 Aug, 2015 Thinking men? What crazy talk.
27 Aug, 2015 Both leaders and followers need to remember who gets the credit
21 Aug, 2015 Not quite "You have your head in the clouds"
19 Aug, 2015 Don't wait to be happy
18 Aug, 2015 Dreams
18 Aug, 2015 On attitude
04 Jul, 2015 July 4th
02 Jul, 2015 Flying fantasies
18 Jun, 2015 Let's go fly a UAV...
28 May, 2015 My memorial weekend co-pilot
18 May, 2015 So I'm a pilot now
30 Apr, 2015 Always buy good tools
24 Apr, 2015 Heroism
10 Dec, 2014 Your back isn't supposed to look like this....
07 Nov, 2014 Theme for Friday and all through this weekend for me
17 Oct, 2014 Don't forget who works for who
12 Sep, 2014 What Apple doesn't yet get about smart watches
11 Sep, 2014 Evernote for Android running native on my chromebook
08 Sep, 2014 The value of 3D printing in space
07 Sep, 2014 Not a new idea but a good one
13 Aug, 2014 Some changes in my first world problems
27 Jul, 2014 Creepy
10 Jul, 2014 A Career of Projects
30 Jun, 2014 Field Day 2014
28 May, 2014 It's just an old beat up truck
23 May, 2014 If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself
26 Apr, 2014 Fishing
07 Apr, 2014 McDonald's
08 Mar, 2014 TUG Connects 2014
02 Mar, 2014 The worst player in the band
18 Feb, 2014 Intel Galileo Time! Woot!
17 Feb, 2014 It's glass time
17 Feb, 2014 Influence of the next generation
05 Feb, 2014 Appreciate the advances in car safety over the last 50 years in just over a minute
28 Jan, 2014 Defiance
20 Dec, 2013 Seriously CNN?
18 Dec, 2013 XMAS JAMMIES
01 Dec, 2013 Philip Zimmerman on why he wrote PGP
27 Nov, 2013 Thanksgiving 1993
25 Nov, 2013 If you think you're too young
23 Oct, 2013 Getting a lot of use out of my calipers lately
11 Oct, 2013 Well that doesn't look right
10 Oct, 2013 42 Amazing maps
04 Oct, 2013 I wonder how long it will take me to learn the launguage when I move here
30 Sep, 2013 Longing for the sea
27 Sep, 2013 10 things I wish I could tell my 18 year old self
24 Sep, 2013 Some office art
23 Sep, 2013 A little monday morning perspective on the size of your problems
17 Sep, 2013 Parenting fail on my part
11 Sep, 2013 Don't forget to finish
20 Aug, 2013 Make your own uncool
20 Aug, 2013 A kick is just a kick
15 Aug, 2013 Scripts
13 Aug, 2013 Binding together
09 Aug, 2013 Pigs and science
09 Aug, 2013 Time
06 Aug, 2013 Today
31 Jul, 2013 Turning it up to 11...
27 Mar, 2013 Sometimes fictional characters imart wisdom worth considering
08 Mar, 2013 Ray Bradburry on Critics
21 Feb, 2013 Oats
20 Feb, 2013 Odd Hours
07 Feb, 2013 These Beautiful Electronics Pinout Diagrams Make DIYing a Little Easier
15 Jan, 2013 We're getting our 3D printer today... I wonder what we're going to print first...
09 Jan, 2013 That's a violation of my privacy
08 Jan, 2013 Make the Perfect Cup of Tea with These Steeping Times and Temperatures
20 Dec, 2012 Freedom
07 Dec, 2012 Prepare to have your ears explode with Christmas cheer :-)
28 Nov, 2012 Saying "I hate politics" is wrong
21 Nov, 2012 A comment on Sprint Customer Service
31 Oct, 2012 Holy crap this is cool
09 Oct, 2012 My Desk Today
20 Sep, 2012 Trike Drifting
18 Sep, 2012 This is great: Sparkfun on Demystifying Serial Communication
13 Aug, 2012 Simple advice to you young people
06 Aug, 2012 My favorite quote of the day. Also, NBC sucks.
06 Aug, 2012 It's a Curious Raspberry Monday Mars Pi
30 Jul, 2012 2001: A Space Odyssey as a 2012 Movie Trailer
26 Jul, 2012 Bob Ross, remixed
22 Jun, 2012 I used to do a little
20 Jun, 2012 Go ahead and TRY to watch this without ending up smiling
18 Jun, 2012 CNN's Breaking News must be broken
12 Jun, 2012 Oh, so THAT's how you pick up girls...
08 Jun, 2012 My 30 second Prometheus review
05 Jun, 2012 A conversation with Ray Bradbury
03 Jun, 2012 Where would be the fun in making something you KNEW would work?
30 May, 2012 The company tonight is pretty good
30 May, 2012 Just in case you ever wanted to see me eat a hamburger on a time lapse video...
29 May, 2012 Google. Shell. EVADot.
27 May, 2012 George continues to infuriate me
26 May, 2012 Monsters season their meat with salt made from human tears
25 May, 2012 I want to use G+ but
24 May, 2012 No ITAR for Firefly
24 May, 2012 John Cleese on Creativity
01 May, 2012 Immense respect in an ordinary place
26 Apr, 2012 The problem with Netflix streaming
26 Apr, 2012 Yeah, I'm an influencer in...
19 Apr, 2012 It's the little things
17 Apr, 2012 Owning my own content
06 Dec, 2011 The new Beagleboard: BeagleBone vs Arduino size comparison
15 Nov, 2011 To get or to give
15 Nov, 2011 Dinner parties
03 Nov, 2011 We humans had entered the realm of myth and legend
24 Oct, 2011 Come and see us at SXSW - we were picked as a panel!
01 Sep, 2011 Bursts of super productivity
29 Aug, 2011 The blinking cursor
12 Aug, 2011 The Adventures of a Cardboard box
01 Aug, 2011 Suffered a minor casualty at NewSpace 2011 last week :-(
01 Aug, 2011 My motto for the week
21 Apr, 2011 Them is fightn words
14 Jan, 2011 The value of a hand made thing
13 Dec, 2010 THE Recipe: Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookies
02 Dec, 2010 Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work
29 Nov, 2010 We're moving because of the people we become when we're where we're going
22 Nov, 2010 Smash the design button
22 Nov, 2010 An update on my book
01 Oct, 2010 The most important question you need to ask yourself: why not?
31 Aug, 2010 I'll bet these people have names
25 Jun, 2010 Why do you fish?
10 Jun, 2010 Another BP Spill
07 May, 2010 Inspiring kids by thinking big in space
03 May, 2010 What do you mean you don't know what your customers want?
27 Apr, 2010 Don't wait for an expert to tell you what you already know
25 Apr, 2010 Colorado Springs
14 Apr, 2010 The proliferation of can't
12 Apr, 2010 Jumping in with both feet: An Open Source NASA Android app
31 Mar, 2010 Textmate Rails Routes Bundle
13 Feb, 2010 The must have Winter Olympics phone app
03 Feb, 2010 Found my doppelganger
03 Feb, 2010 those kids don't need no stinking school
30 Jan, 2010 The Super Bowl Shuffle is coming back
30 Jan, 2010 iPad vs. a Rock
30 Jan, 2010 snow day
05 Jan, 2010 omni did books?
30 Dec, 2009 Minty Boost
01 Dec, 2009 The art of the power nap
30 Nov, 2009 Don't cheapen your message
20 Nov, 2009 Kids always find robots #TEDxNASA
20 Nov, 2009 Morning at TEDxNASA
18 Nov, 2009 On saving NASA
17 Nov, 2009 A dangerous productivity killer
10 Nov, 2009 Installing Google Go on Ubuntu 9.10 x86
10 Nov, 2009 The problem with open blogs
31 Oct, 2009 How's that for aim?
22 Oct, 2009 I printed it to read. At least I used recycled paper
21 Oct, 2009 More Tom
21 Oct, 2009 More tom jones
21 Oct, 2009 Astro Tom Jones at #isstweetup
21 Oct, 2009 NASA deputy admin at #isstweetup
21 Oct, 2009 Here's @bethbeck who was so excited she wore a sleeping bag #isstweetup
21 Oct, 2009 Glenn doing his thing at #isstweetup
21 Oct, 2009 @zippyg2 talks live to iss #nasatweetup
21 Oct, 2009 Master alarm sounds on iss while we are live #nasatweetup
20 Oct, 2009 Is dessert supposed to be cute?
19 Oct, 2009 Really?
17 Oct, 2009 Testing using posterous to stay sane during the ISS tweetup next week
08 Oct, 2009 Infrared Sensor Data for Hal
25 Sep, 2009 Evadot Speed Drawing
21 Sep, 2009 "Significant" water on the moon
11 Sep, 2009 Nanogirls
26 Aug, 2009 The surprising science of motivation
18 Aug, 2009 Do you want to date my avatar?
17 Aug, 2009 Criss Angel Augmented Reality Game
10 Aug, 2009 Craig Ferguson "figures it out"
26 Jun, 2009 Apparently Gaylord Focker has started his own business
24 Jun, 2009 The Launch Pad: Successful NASA Program in Jeopardy!
31 May, 2009 We like to move
27 May, 2009 Remember the show "V" from the 80's? Yeah, it's back.
20 May, 2009 Science Funding Explained, SMBC Style
07 May, 2009 Power to electric motors from a digital controller is never easy
05 May, 2009 Everything's amazing and nobody is happy, Part 2
05 May, 2009 It's time to make the robots
29 Apr, 2009 On reading the important stuff, like say the Constitution
23 Apr, 2009 Always be the worst musician in the band
01 Apr, 2009 Where do I find THAT level of conversation?
01 Apr, 2009 I'm not good enough is not good enough
11 Mar, 2009 Why is Evernote asking to be paid bad?
11 Mar, 2009 Evadot
09 Mar, 2009 I should know better than to leave home without paper and a pencil
06 Mar, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-03-06
03 Mar, 2009 A little perspective
27 Feb, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-02-27
27 Feb, 2009 The Crisis of Credit Visualized
26 Feb, 2009 Netflix To Offer 'Streaming Only" Plans
26 Feb, 2009 App turns iPhone into a credit card terminal - Springwise
25 Feb, 2009 Some thoughts on Dollhouse
20 Feb, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-02-20
13 Feb, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-02-13
06 Feb, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-02-06
05 Feb, 2009 American Knowledge Workers are in Trouble
30 Jan, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-01-30
23 Jan, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-01-23
22 Jan, 2009 This ad is so good it makes me want to work in a print shop
16 Jan, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-01-16
15 Jan, 2009 What's normal to you is probably not normal to me
09 Jan, 2009 Twitter Updates for 2009-01-09
29 Dec, 2008 Google will send you gmail stickers for free.
12 Dec, 2008 If you don't smile watching this, then you have issues
10 Dec, 2008 I'd like to do something like Omni Magazine
04 Dec, 2008 Don't forget to sing and dance along the way
24 Nov, 2008 I haven't blogged in November, here's an update barf
29 Oct, 2008 The internet is like a vagina, or maybe Joey Bishop
29 Sep, 2008 So long Comcast, can't say we'll miss you
26 Sep, 2008 Me(me)
19 Sep, 2008 So you think we should tax the rich to pay for all of this huh?
19 Sep, 2008 Microsoft commercials, good riddance Seinfeld
11 Sep, 2008 Another great looking electronic paper device
04 Sep, 2008 The LHC is supa dupa fly
02 Sep, 2008 Google Lunar X-Prize Moon 2.0 - Japanese Version
19 Aug, 2008 Quote of the day
19 Aug, 2008 How do you work at a place that everyone hates?
14 Aug, 2008 Quote of the day
11 Aug, 2008 An industrial flag on the moon.
30 Jul, 2008 Mayo anyone?
24 Jul, 2008 Thump it, thump it good
17 Jul, 2008 A shot cool enough to blog
25 Jun, 2008 Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
24 Jun, 2008 If you're stupid, watch this video
20 Jun, 2008 Awesome
18 Jun, 2008 Fix your broken NES
16 Jun, 2008 On tap this week
06 Jun, 2008 My processor graphs say my processors tummys are full
27 May, 2008 Are you a fisherman or not?
22 May, 2008 Linus on the origin of Linux
19 May, 2008 Driving to the office every day?
07 May, 2008 NASCAR vs the Space Program
06 May, 2008 Quote of the day
28 Apr, 2008 This just in: Being the current industry leader doesn't mean you'll stay there
26 Apr, 2008 Tying some flies
18 Apr, 2008 Great use of visuals to get a point across
18 Apr, 2008 Dude builds a cure for cancer! In his garage!
15 Apr, 2008 A crisis of faith?
10 Apr, 2008 Being naked on the wrong day is awkward
29 Mar, 2008 Switch to Wordpress 2.5 took seconds
29 Mar, 2008 Upgrading this blog to Wordpress 2.5
29 Mar, 2008 Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04
25 Mar, 2008 That new car is not as cool as you think it is
25 Mar, 2008 A company that actually does rebates well
18 Mar, 2008 Arthur C Clarke
18 Mar, 2008 Pretend you're lost on an Island for $29
14 Mar, 2008 Google Sky is now on the Web
14 Mar, 2008 Dr Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Talk
07 Mar, 2008 Customer service done right
07 Mar, 2008 MacBook in Tablet Form
07 Mar, 2008 Customer service nightmares
28 Feb, 2008 Sprint goes unlimited too...
25 Feb, 2008 The Oscars in 60 seconds, Mahalo Daily Style
07 Feb, 2008 MD - Big math dork
15 Jan, 2008 It's scary how much I can relate to this
10 Jan, 2008 A work from home challange for me
09 Jan, 2008 Twitter Updates for 2008-01-09
07 Jan, 2008 Bill Gates clip
03 Jan, 2008 Twitter Updates for 2008-01-03
02 Jan, 2008 Twitter Updates for 2008-01-02
31 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-31
30 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-30
29 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-29
28 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-28
27 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-27
26 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-26
25 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-25
24 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-24
21 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-21
19 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-19
18 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-18
17 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-17
16 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-16
14 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-14
13 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-13
12 Dec, 2007 Twitter Updates for 2007-12-12
05 Dec, 2007 Another bubble
03 Dec, 2007 Only Lust Limits the Imagination
03 Dec, 2007 Dinosaur Fossil Found With Preserved Soft Tissue
29 Nov, 2007 Announcing BonfireJOBS
27 Nov, 2007 ParentalTech - The tech blog for parents
25 Nov, 2007 Da Bears
15 Nov, 2007 Dreams of Flying Photo Shoot
09 Nov, 2007 Quote of the day
05 Nov, 2007 Finally, open phones
02 Nov, 2007 Grr, ouch.
27 Oct, 2007 Leopard for me is next thursday. Waaahhhhh!
26 Oct, 2007 Happy Leopard Day!
23 Oct, 2007 Verizon's 20/20 Internet Service
23 Oct, 2007 Why oh why did I sell Apple?!
17 Oct, 2007 Leopard Discount at Amazon
16 Oct, 2007 The hot dog song
10 Oct, 2007 Welcome to the world Ariella!
05 Oct, 2007 Fredericksburg Slashdot Anniversary Party
05 Oct, 2007 Back from vacation and on the prowl
02 Oct, 2007 On Vacation
27 Sep, 2007 I'm adding a word to the english dictionary
26 Sep, 2007 Podcast for Audio Geeks
25 Sep, 2007 Make it easy for me to unsubscribe please
24 Sep, 2007 Maybe "suck" doesn't mean what you think it means
19 Sep, 2007 Passion Check
14 Sep, 2007 Google Lunar X PRIZE Foundation
14 Sep, 2007 Today is Safari Day
04 Sep, 2007 This blog is now mobile enabled
04 Sep, 2007 Another day, another blog engine
03 Sep, 2007 Quote of the week
03 Sep, 2007 What kind of receiver are you?
30 Aug, 2007 Posting to be cool
27 Aug, 2007 Proof your kids aren't witches
25 Aug, 2007 Today is new Guitar Day
25 Aug, 2007 New PRS Guitar
25 Aug, 2007 Switching back to blogger
25 Aug, 2007 Switching back to blogger
24 Aug, 2007 New Favorite Beer
24 Aug, 2007 New Favorite Beer
23 Aug, 2007 Researcher Claims Life on Mars
16 Aug, 2007 Peanut butter jelly time...
16 Aug, 2007 Peanut Butter Jelly Time...
13 Aug, 2007 Starting a new excercise program
09 Aug, 2007 When it's hot, ceviche
09 Aug, 2007 When it's hot, ceviche
08 Aug, 2007 Yikes, the heat
03 Aug, 2007 No fibbing when your Mom is a photographer
03 Aug, 2007 No fibbing when your Mom is a photographer
03 Aug, 2007 Northern Pike-a-thon
02 Aug, 2007 Northern Pike-a-thon
30 Jul, 2007 New Music
30 Jul, 2007 Back from Vacation
30 Jul, 2007 New Music
29 Jun, 2007 Back from Disney
27 Jun, 2007 At Disney World with no kids
20 Jun, 2007 Must learn to read again
14 Jun, 2007 Practice anywhere
14 Jun, 2007 Orioles vs Nats 6/12/2007
14 Jun, 2007 Yankees vs RedSox 5/22/2007
08 Jun, 2007 The perfect brownie needs the perfect pan
31 May, 2007 The 5 minute fix
25 May, 2007 Quote of the day
22 May, 2007 Super Bored
16 May, 2007 Nova-mind has outstanding support
15 May, 2007 FedEx cracks me up
10 May, 2007 Much to think about in Rethinking the Linux distribution
09 May, 2007 Google Reader for the Wii
01 May, 2007 How to not bork up your startup
27 Apr, 2007 Got a summer internship?
19 Apr, 2007 My new game obsession
19 Apr, 2007 Speaking at Angelbeat next week
02 Apr, 2007 What are you paid for your writing and photos?
20 Mar, 2007 Joining the Wamily team
16 Mar, 2007 My must read list
24 Feb, 2007 Quote of the day
23 Feb, 2007 Networks and woodchucks
22 Feb, 2007 It's the iBasement
15 Feb, 2007 Orsen Scott Card Talks about Empire
14 Feb, 2007 Quote of the Day
14 Feb, 2007 Something stupid that is just stupid funny
26 Jan, 2007 Coffee not doing it for you?
14 Jan, 2007 Crazy Weather
09 Jan, 2007 MacWorld prediction from my brother
02 Jan, 2007 A present for Dad
27 Dec, 2006 My daughters first digital picture
14 Dec, 2006 Is your password "1"?
11 Dec, 2006 Naked in Heaven
20 Nov, 2006 I've been hit by a deer
26 Oct, 2006 Spent some time in NY this week
23 Oct, 2006 Firefox 2.0 a little early
18 Oct, 2006 And I thought my G4 PowerBook was getting old
17 Oct, 2006 Linux still isn't my primary desktop
02 Oct, 2006 Just what WOULD Jesus download anyway?
30 Sep, 2006 I haven't actually read the book
17 Jan, 2005 WiMax vendors creep ahead, look to mobility
17 Jan, 2005 Sun Slams IBM over x86 Decision
11 Jan, 2005 IBM hands over 500 patents to open-source community
10 Jan, 2005 Three Ways to Adversely Impact your Google Pagerank
10 Jan, 2005 Sun Yanks FreeBSD's Java Licence
10 Jan, 2005 Novell, Red Hat eye virtualization for Linux
10 Jan, 2005 Inaugural security draws on latest technologies
06 Jan, 2005 Microsoft Launches Anti-Spyware
05 Jan, 2005 Whitehat security testing
05 Jan, 2005 MySQL readies beta of enterprise open source database
05 Jan, 2005 The Command Line in 2004
01 Jan, 2005 Solaris 10 negates the need for linux?? What?
01 Jan, 2005 Sub $500 iMac
29 Dec, 2004 Commodore computer brand sold
28 Dec, 2004 eWEEK.com Special Report: Tech Outlook 2005
28 Dec, 2004 O'Reilly Network -- Developers' Hub -- web development, open source development, open and emerging technologies
28 Dec, 2004 Yahoo! News - Big Month for Firefox

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