Category: Software

I’m building a homebrew CPU based on microcode. I made a microcode compiler in Google Sheets. It can easily adapted for other people’s microcoding needs.

I made a modern replacement for the Wang 300 series calculator Electronic Package. Not only does it emulate the original Wang calculator’s behavior, but it can operate as a nixie clock.

I had the famous Utah teapot engraved in crystal.

I wrote a KiCad plugin to generate Verilog code from a schematic.

If you’ve used computers from the 70s and early 80s, you’re probably familiar with the classic Star Trek game. What very few people know, is that there was another, very different Star Trek game at the same time. It was script-based, and it gave you a feeling of actually being in an episode of Star Trek. I’ve been looking for this game for over 40 years, and it appeared as if had ceased to exist. Until now. A copy – possibly the only one in the world – has been found. So let’s take a look … at the other…

I’ve published my first app on the Google Play Store – a dashboard for personal watercraft, like Jet Skis.

  I re-created the classic Star Trek game for the VT52. And it demonstrated how much I’ve changed as a programmer in 42 years.

I just got an e-mail from someone saying that my homegrown CAPTCHA was “stupid”. On the contrary, it’s far more effective than Google’s.

I brought a Wang 360 calculator console back to life with a modern “Electronic Package”. Not only does it emulate the original Wang calculator’s behavior, but it can operate as a nixie clock or as a Reverse Polish Notation calculator.

It was so easy to add a inclinometer to my bike using off-the-shelf hardware that I’m almost embarrassed to post about it here.

I built a triple-sensor mailbox alert to tell me when there is mail in my mailbox for me.

I’ve built a website, PCBShopper.com, that lets you quickly and easily compare prices from several different printed circuit board manufacturers.

Every year I make a calendar with pictures of my daughter. None of the available programs or services had the features I wanted so, as with my envelope program, I wrote my own. In the spirit of the season (New Year’s, not Christmas) I’m making it available free for downloading.

Grandma needed a really easy envelope printing program. I wrote one, and it’s so convenient, I use it myself. Download it here and try it yourself.