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http://youtube.com/@thetechnoshed Electronics, astronomy and vintage computing. DFB1 Atari Falcon Booster, Smalliermouse, PiStorm for for Atari & more: http://github.com/dh219
Cyberlegends 2025, the Exxos Forum meetup held in Toddington a couple of weeks ago, was great fun. Here's some of what I saw.
youtu.be/SdErQ-xPfzQ
Featuring, among others, @srusher.bsky.social. And I think @a1exh.bsky.social sneaks into the background once or twice...
Packed and time to leave for Cyberlegends 4 in Toddington. Come along if you’re nearby!
11.10.2025 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One week klaxon! “Cyberlegends” in Toddington.
03.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If I wish to employ a simile, everything is ‘like a fox’.
03.10.2025 06:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I may have to stop doing the bra adverts…
22.09.2025 16:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cyberlegends 4 is on the 11th October. Do consider coming along to this Atari-slanted vintage computer fair. Or perhaps take part in the (open worldwide) raffle? youtu.be/lz3i_6Ka2kk
22.09.2025 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
The Atari Falcon motherboard repair continues! How does it go?
Well...
youtu.be/wvNYp1gu-N4
Part two of my "Atari Falcon030 without a CPU" series is out now. A soldering iron may be seen!
youtu.be/efKCNxdB9FU
Enjoying all the VCF posts?
Live in the UK or does EasyJet, Ryanair or Wizz fly from where you live to Luton?
At a loose end in early October?
CYBERLEGENDS!
Sure, it may be a bit smaller than VCF and probably has a more Atari ST flavour, but why the heck not, eh?
One each and two for Sundays!
12.09.2025 23:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More Atari Falcon030 accelerator cards than you can shake a stick at! A new batch of DFB1X will be at Exxos' store shortly, by the look of things: www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/
12.09.2025 11:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Part two of my "Atari Falcon030 without a CPU" series is out now. A soldering iron may be seen!
youtu.be/efKCNxdB9FU
As Foreigner failed to sing to a used car salesman.
28.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Marine (My Amber replacement chip) is up on PCBWay and Github.
www.pcbway.com/project/shar...
github.com/GadgetUK164/...
#commodore #amiga
I’ve got myself a mangled motherboard from an Atari Falcon030 here!
Let’s see if we can repair it.
youtu.be/6u-zLlYimew
Important stuff! Pay attention at the back.
15.08.2025 09:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Monday, you mean?
14.06.2025 20:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello! I'm messing with internal and external floppies again. I want to boot Gotek game images from an external drive. This time on the Atari STE. Nasty hack. Don't do this. 😘
youtu.be/XZWezG5h5ek
Ye of probably historically justified levels of faith!
16.05.2025 09:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's Atari STE video time again!
Part two of the early access STE536 accelerator. This time with added WORKING!
youtu.be/IUuQCaYzlS0
More head scratching and a few more goes, feeling for hot things and pressing in chips. Oh. That CPLD still needs its 3V3 rail doesn’t it? I still haven’t fitted the Pico permanently have I? FFS. Don’t bring up boards when tired. And don’t cheap out on regulators! 🤡
24.04.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can it boot up in quiescent mode now? No… Ah wait. I’m interposing a chip on the motherboard, aren’t I? Ha! I’d better fit that chip in my board then, hadn’t I. Fit that… try again… still no…
24.04.2025 14:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Attempting to bring up a new project last night. Need to flash the CPLD with a ‘status quo’ (do nothing, but safely) firmware. Power up in situ. Can’t flash it. Oh wait! Yes, it’s a 3V3 part and I’m borrowing that rail from a Pi Pico and I’ve not fitted that yet. Fit it temporarily. Flashes ok…
24.04.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Chin up, Jan. The more successful you are the bigger chance of lovely chaps like this one raising their heads. ❤️
21.04.2025 15:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After what seems like One Million Years since I teased this: here’s part one of my STE536 journey. Things never go to plan!
youtu.be/xsYD6awNkHs
I bypassed the timer in mine then got worried about how hot the case seemed to get. I put it back as a bit of a safety mechanism.
02.04.2025 16:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0![[B-Roll] Watchy follow up. Is my ESP32 kaputt?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:brqp5or27km5ew6ljpmmgn5i/bafkreidsaoe4rkdwhhvj77y5bcxk4b56l5sr3ixenuk35s35gz4vnrb7i4@jpeg)
I had a few suggestions on my Watchy video about what was going on with the ESP32 programming so I decided to take another look at it. This time with measuring and stuff!
[B-Roll] Watchy follow up. Is my ESP32 kaputt?
youtu.be/5inxGmdzxEU
Hmm. There was a definite ‘warm electronics smell’ when I opened her up, but couldn’t find anything properly hot. It’s not fully bricked either as it will still run, just not program. I maybe need to get the scope on it.
18.03.2025 12:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I took my non-flashing Watchy apart again and manually shorted GPIO0 to ground when powering up to put it into programming mode and still nothing on the serial line despite it recognising the UART bridge. Has something gone pop?
18.03.2025 00:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Not so retro this. Well, unless you liked how the Casio calculator watch looked on your skinny seven-year-old wrist back in 1985 and want to pretend this is that. But here I have a look at an open source wristwatch I impulse-purchased a while back. What do you think?
youtu.be/QY5QQNmFjtc
