Tony is a Geek

Following on from the previous article post , as Bob would say, "you wouldn't let it lie" I ordered some cables, actually for the printer conversion project , but as it had 2 x connectors on it, I hijacked it and used it for this first. There was a LOT of trial and error & learning mistakes 'earnt' during this exercise and I would probably have been quicker and more efficient if I wasn't doing this late at night after long work/work days, but y'know someone has to do the day job as the EPs I work with all seem to be very work shy... So, armed with screw-drivers, hacksaws and cups of tea... a hacking I went. I thought I would just cut & splice the existing internal 4 wires that provide the internal 3" disc drive with power, I mean, it'll only be using the power one at a time, wouldn't it?  I had a niggling feeling that this would not work - mainly due to the fact the proper "external 3" disc drives" come with a massive PS...

A short while back I was surfing good old eBay, when I stumbled over a Minitel machine. After doing a bit of checking on wikipedia , I found out that it was an old 1980s machine that was the Internet before the Internet....but they only switched off the service in July 2012! It involved you dialing up a phone number, connecting your phone to the device and then using the keyboard and special orange function keys to navigate around. It looks to be like a Prestel / Teletext / Ceefax / CompuServe type of "internet".  Remember those days :-)  If you're from the US, then think early days AOL (before the free CDs). Anyway, I happen to have won a bid and the nice snug little device arrived at my humble abode waiting for me to do something useful with it.  First of all, I was surprised that it actually worked!  It powered on and everything!  I say, "everything"...as it just sat there with a blinking cursor and didn't really do anything at all.  Oh and ther...

A Raspberry Pi3....an old radio/speaker box... time to make a "portable" music player, that not only plays local music, but streams from Spotify etc..etc... and is controlled from a web-app that you control from your web-browser (running on any device you fancy) CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW TO SET THIS UP