Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Hacking the Sureflap Dual Scan Cat Flap

Hacking the Sureflap Dual Scan Cat Flap


To get the RFID codes for the 134.2 KHz Cat chip ID's



 Aha! A PIC. And an ICD port next to it. PICKit3 at the ready.
I'd quite like to get the firmware off this if possible.

Atari ST

Atari ST


A good friend found these in the loft and thought I might find some use for them.
 There was some interesting software came with them. Transputers! Occam!
 And levels of brownness not seen since the 1970's.
 This one cleaned up ok though.

Acorn A300

Acorn A300


Bit of a Frankensteins Monster. Bits from A300 / A410 and many upgrades.

Unfortunately this one suffered a little from poor storage at some point.

Luckily most of the damage is just the back panel. Everything else just needs a bit of a clean.

 There's some great bits of wire linking and factory mods on this board.

 And a few of my own mods for memory and ARM 3
 Bit of rust.. Clean up and repaint..

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Tatung Einstein


Had a great time at the Newbury Radio Rally and an amazing bit of luck finding this Tatung Einstein from 1984 in pretty good condition. 
In another bit of amazing luck one of my friends had a bundle of Manuals, magazines and some disks.