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Retro Adapter on sale soon and Retro Adapter Wii

06/09/2009 – 17:45

I will be opening the online shop for sales of the Retro Adapter soon (just waiting for the final parts to come in). Both finished adapters and kits will be available, as well as  a selection of connectors. It occurred to me that I can use the same PCB for a Wii/Gamecube version, so I [...]

By mojo | Also posted in avr, electronics | Comments (0)

Final Retro Adapter PCBs arrived!

16/08/2009 – 23:36

The final production Retro Adapter PCBs arrived yesterday. I made one up and it works perfectly. I am very happy with the world Seeed Studio did on them, especially considering they are cheap and accept files in Eagle format (so they do all the conversion or Gerber and any panelization etc). I will put together [...]

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New Retro Adapter prototype PCBs arrived

29/07/2009 – 00:41

Just been updating the <a href=”test”>main site</a> with details of the prototype PCBs that arrived yesterday. The good news is that apart from a couple of minor issues, all is well. I just need to finish a few things off with the code before doing the first small run of boards, One issue I have [...]

By mojo | Also posted in avr, electronics | Comments (0)

eBay no-brand media centre remote control review

01/06/2009 – 10:11

I have been looking for a suitable remote control for my media centre for a while now, and decided to take a chance on a £25 2.4GHz remote control with built in optical track ball from eBay: I was worried that it might be a bit cheap and perform poorly, but was pleasantly surprised by [...]

By mojo | Also posted in windows | Comments (0)

Review: Audio Technica ATH-EQ66 headphones

21/03/2009 – 15:02

I originally bought the ATH-EQ66 to use when travelling. They were cheap (about ¥2000/£10) and I wasn’t planning to do any serious listening with them (I have Yuin PK1s for that, or Shure EC3s which I still can’t decide if I like or not.) I listen to audio books a lot and have been using [...]

By mojo | Also posted in audio | Comments (0)

780g chipset motherboard experiences

02/11/2008 – 22:17

I recently bought an Abit A-S78H motherboard with 780g chipset. There are a fair few reviews of this chipset on the net, but most are focused on details and benchmarks rather than what the boards are like in practice. This chipset seems almost too good to be true. I wanted one for a HTPC, but [...]

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Attacking data in RAM

14/05/2008 – 11:52

Today’s Hack a Day post linked to this article on recovering encryption keys from RAM, so I thought I’d look into defences against this kind of attack. There are simple ways to defeat this, and although not 100% reliable they are pretty effective. You have to consider what sort of situation this attack is likely [...]

By mojo | Also posted in law, privacy, security, software, windows | Comments (0)

USB HID descriptors and Windows

06/03/2008 – 20:03

While working on my USB/PSX joystick controller project I noticed that a) Windows isn’t very tolerant of some things and doesn’t care about other stuff, and b) MAME was giving some weird results. In the end, the Windows thing came down to needed to pad out the reports the microprocessor was sending back to a [...]

By mojo | Also posted in windows | Comments (0)

USB Retro Adapter

18/02/2008 – 17:16

I have updated my web site at http://joystick.world3.net. Plans for the Retro Adapter are not available! Currently supported are Atari/Commodore style joysticks (up to three buttons), Sega Saturn, Mega Drive (Genesis), Master System, Nintendo Famicom (NES) and Super Famicom (SNES) controllers. Six button Mega Drive controllers are not currently supported. I know how to do [...]

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MacBook Air batteries: Apple hates you

25/01/2008 – 23:47

Noticed an interesting article on on Ars: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/01/25/macbook-air-battery-fairly-simple-for-mortals-to-replace Apparently the MacBook Air battery is much easier to replace than the iPod or iPhone batteries. Surely a good thing, right? Well, it might be if they officially supported it by, I don’t know, off the top of my head, installing an eject button like every other [...]

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