John Honniball

@anachrocomputer
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Software Engineer and electronic tinkerer posting random musings about the Arduino, Dorkbot, plotters, oscilloscopes and Linux
Homepagehttps://anachrocomputer.github.io/
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#mayke 10 fuzzy felt mat composition

Remembering the BBC Computer Literacy Project

There comes a point in everybody’s life when things that they were a part of are presented as history, and for the 8-bit generation, that time is now. It’s interesting …read more
#hacking #projects
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/09/remembering-the-bbc-computer-literacy-project/

DUDE.

Floppy. Disk. Rolodex.

#RetroComputing

For today's #mayke, I re-made the cover for the #xteink #x4 using some scrap fabric we had around. This one has the built-in magnets to keep it closed, which seem to work well.

The second attempt at making mitered corners certainly went better than the last one. Much learning had here!

A little #repair type #mayke this morning. Nettles collar needed a replacement velcro section. Nice job for the Pfaff #sewing machine.
Ok the lora yoyo machines work, at least when they are close together! I replaced the 4 pin RGB led with some circles of leds I had around #mayke 8
Darnit, there's a wiring error. D4, D5, D6 don't go in that order
UPDATE: fixed
2026-05-07 #mayke 7: soldering some bright red sockets to a blue solderable breadboard PCB. Wiring up the sockets in a parallel bus arrangement. Arduino Nano for scale
#mayke 6 - got a plan to (re)mayke one of these cool yoyo machines but over Lora https://make.yoyomachines.io/Guide/Hardware+Build+Guide+(Mac+Software)/17?lang=en - I have tried before and failed to get it to go any distance. Building from scratch slowly, starting from finding the perfect button for my IKEA Korralvippa storage box and hooking it up.

6th of #mayke this textile text painting, a warding slogan on a canvas that's been on hold

Hot pink acrylic paint mixed with a formaldehyde heat-transfer fluid and a small quantity of my own spit. With posh bamboo/goat-hair calligraphy brushes that can't sit unused, or why keep them?

On a plasticky clone keffiyeh that Mum brought back from Siwa as a stocking filler, know she meant well

I'd decorate an empty shop with it, if i could