The Lancashireman's projects

Electronic hardware and software projects and hacks

One of my hobbies is constructing electronic gadgets. I also write programs for my own purposes that might turn out to be useful for others. In these pages I'll try to document some of the successful projects.

Electronics projects

• Blinkenlights - everyone must have a flashing lights project. This is mine
• The Joat
• A retro-style digital clock with a seven-segment red LED display
• Digital and hybrid analogue/digital synthesisers and other music effects gear:
  • A digital envelope generator for an analogue synthesiser, using an ATtiny85 MCU
  • A digital midi interface for an analogue synthesiser using an Arduino Nano
  • Adventures in synthesis on a raspberry pi
• RadioPi

Software projects

• A collection of smallish operating system kernels that go under the name of davros. Find it on codeberg, gitlab or github
• Genealogy assistant DhG2 (and the original DhG)

Other odds and ends

• Linear feedback shift registers
• Semaphores and mutexes
• Fun with bc

A note about code repositories

I have a presence on each of codeberg, gitlab and github.

I'm gradually adding extra remotes to my local repositories so that, eventually, you'll be able to find the code on whichever server you prefer. When I've done that, I'll add links on all project pages. Until that work is done, you might find the code on sites that aren't linked from the individual project pages.

If you find a bug in the code or would like to suggest a change, please send a patch file in preference to a pull request.