Dick Smith Fun Way into Electronics Volume 2 - Flashing LED

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Created: 29 June 2026

I got this book, Fun Way into Electronics Volume 2 when I was 10. Along with a couple of kits, the LED Flasher and Ding Dong Doorbell and a soldering iron.

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New PCB - Big Savings

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Created: 24 May 2026

The original board was based on the Atmel ATmega328P and cost approximately $10 per unit. In larger machines, up to 72 of these boards could be installed, making the total hardware cost significant.

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New Website

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Created: 11 May 2026

Thanks to Kimi 2.6 it rewrote my old template so not as ugly anymore. I also used ChatGPT to create an analytics extension for Joomla. Now I should try to keep things updated around here...

Auto Generate Images and Descriptions with AI

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Created: 05 May 2024

I wrote some code that used Stable Diffusion to generate an image then a vision model to describe the image. The description is then fed back into the image generator and so on...

This has had some interesting results

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Head Unit Going Again

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Created: 21 March 2023

This is from the head unit in my car and this is what happens when you put 12v where it doesn't belong. The head unit still works fine except the screen is just white, it still responds to touch, if you know where.

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Soldering Skills...

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Created: 13 March 2023