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    "Brand New" USB Translucent Zip Drive Error

    I bought a NOS Zip Drive on Facebook Market Place - one of the old shape ones that is translucent and USB (to match the early iMacs). I was pretty excited because it was still sealed and so were the provided 3 disks and the manual / drivers. It arrived a short while ago, I opened it and plugged...
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    Using Lego to Try to Take Over the World!

    Last couple of days I've been messing with a 9751 Lego serial interface from about 1994 on my LC 475. Lots of fun. I don't have many official sensors to go with it, but I've made a couple of my own. Yesterday I got it working after working out that the TX and RX were backwards as if it was a...
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    Data Harvest FlowGo Protocol Reverse Engineering

    Made some good progress last night. I plugged in a Data Harvest FlowGo I'd picked up a while back. It didn't have any software with it and I hadn't done anything with it. I enjoy playing with old educational interface boxes - it was a big thing here in the UK in the 80s and 90s for teaching...
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    Optional Image Upload Downsampling

    When uploading photos from my phone, they're usually high res, 6MB files. While I sometimes want and need this, this is usually excessive and the only reason I haven't reduced the quality is because the process is convoluted on my phone. Is optional down sampling at upload feasable? There are...
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    Centris 650 Upgrades

    I picked up a Centris 650 a few weeks back and have been making a few upgrades. So far I have done the following : Upgraded the RAM to 104MB Added an AudioMedia II sound card Added the missing Reset / Interrupt buttons Added a Stage II Rocket Fitted a tray loading CD bezel Fitted a 600i CD...