Brian Dorey

Today’s crop from the allotment, lettuce, potatoes, runner beans, spring beans, tomatoes, a pear and blackberries #growyourown #allotment #plants #food

Yes System 7, installed from floppy disks

This old Mac dosnt have Ethernet so getting files to it is proving fun. I have a scsi CD-ROM but it’s not recognising it at the moment, trying to get a copy of toast software across as this is supposed to support third party cd drives

Transferring files which are too big for floppy to a vintage 40 year old Macintosh LC using a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Serial Pi plus from www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/51/serial-... and a serial cable to the Macintosh. Using Minicom on the Pi and Zterm on the Macintosh with ZMODEM protocol.

Tutorial Thursday – Tutorial for configuring your Raspberry Pi to use the RTC Pi on Raspberry Pi OS to add a realtime clock module

https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/30/rtc-pi-setup-on-raspberry-pi-os

#tech #technology #technews #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics

Got some “new old stock” sealed boxes of save icons

Our Summer Sale is here❗
Save up to 20% on Raspberry Pi Expansion Boards & Accessories.
Shop now at https://www.abelectronics.co.uk

#SummerSale #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPiAccessories #PiProjects #TechSale #ElectronicsSale #MakersDiscount

Apple keyboard restored

Apple Keyboard II restoration from a 1990 Macintosh LC, the clean-up and retro-bright process has worked well on the 40 year old keyboard with only some slight blotching from the retro-bright process on the keyboard plastics. Photo shows before and after.

its ok guys, South Park made donald trumps tiny penis talk so everything is gonna be fixed now

Tried the retrobright process on the top of the 35 year old Mac LC case this afternoon, very impressed with the results. #retro #retrocomputer #vintagecomputer #retrobright

Starting to get more from the allotment after a very dry start, the blackberries are turning black, got some more rhubarb, beans, tomatoes and apples to process and freeze today and the butternut squash is getting bigger. #allotment #growyourown

New repair project, a 1990 Macintosh LC in its original box with keyboard, mouse and floppy disks. It has a Motorola 68020 15.66 MHz CPU with 2 MB ram and a 40Mb SCSI hard drive. It doesn’t power on so not a good start

which then snaps the hex bar when you try to turn it, removing all adjustment unless you strip the fork and use a pair of pliers to turn the snapped off part left (1mm high) needs to be fired.

Its the worst design Ive seen for a very long time on bike parts. #mountainbike

Whoever thought it was a good idea to fit the rebound adjuster onto a mountainbike Fox fork with a 2mm diameter hex bar, 1.5mm bolt then use an adjustment knob which is 3 inches long and can be bent to one side by a twig in the lower fork leg as it has no other support,.....

Learn how to use the 1 Wire Pi Zero or 1 Wire Pi Plus on the Odroid computer boards from the AB Electronics Knowledge Base.

https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/1113/owfs-with-i2c-support-on-odroid

#tech #1-wire #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics

Water tank with sensor cables and pipes

Water tank with sensor cables and pipes

Water tank float switch sensor

The new watering pump controller software is almost ready so went to the allotment today to install the pipes and wires for the pump and float switches to monitor the water levels before the controller is installed. #allotment #growyourown

I've just updated my minimal Raspberry Pi GPIO pinout, fixing the print CSS (still some work to do, I think) and making interfaces clickable to highlight related pins: pi.pinout.xyz

Out on the road bike today and thought I would try coming down Langton with its 20mph speed limit. Got to use the brakes a lot more than when it was 30 to stay under the limit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXBnAJKcKHQ

Sign the Petition Make it illegal to leave dogs in hot cars

Make it illegal to leave dogs in hot cars - Sign the Petition! chng.it/cYrYKM5dhz via @UKChange

YouTube video by Edgelord Priestess Of Waifustan Beavis & Butthead Do The Universe - All Three BOINGS

Correct sound effect? www.youtube.com/watch?v=K09u...

Anyone else having problem accessing GitHub.com ? Getting error 500

YouTube video by Paul Thompson BCM Repair - Ford Focus ST Ep108

Ford wanted over £600 for a friends car Body Control Module as the wipers had failed, turned out to be a dead relay which I swapped from a donor board. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6P4...

Toolbox Tuesday - Want to calculate the resistance of resistors in parallel?

Try the Parallel Resistor Calculator at AB Electronics in our Electronics Toolbox.

https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/tools/resistor-parallel

#tech #technology #technews #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics

Out for a ride on the hardtail around the Isle of Purbeck, down to Old Harry Rocks via Ballard Down and back to the golf course via Franks Tank which is now very overgrown and eroded on the bridleways

Food

Today’s crop from the allotment, courgettes / zucchini, spinach, mint, raspberry’s and rhubarb #allotment #growyourown

Sony MDS-JE440 Minidisc loading belt replacement and repair We bought a faulty Sony MDS-JE440 Minidisc player and it only needed the loading belt replacing and a general clean to make it work again

Picked up a "broken" player a few years ago, just needed a rubber belt to fix it www.briandorey.com/post/sony-md...

RTC Pi Development Board, add a Real-time clock to your Raspberry Pi with the RTC Pi.

https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/70/rtc-pi

#tech #technology #technews #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics

Pears

spinach

cucumber

tomato

The recent rain has made a huge difference on the allotment, outside the pear and apple trees have fruit, spinach and blackberries are growing well and in the polytunnel our first cucumber has appeared and the tomato plants have almost reached the top of the frames.

Raspberry Pi ADC board

Found our original Raspberry Pi ADC board when sorting though some boxes, little did we know that this smart home logging project would turn into a full time business. Behind the dev board are our current Pi ADC expansion boards https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/69/adc-pi #raspberrypi

First crop of rhubarb. After months without rain, the rhubarb has been very slow to get started this year. The rain in the past week has helped to get it growing. #allotment #growyourown #homegrown