Author Archives: nivagswerdna

In a universe far far away live a species closely related to the Galaxians, these ‘people’ were created by the Shoei Corporation for their “Galaxia” clone of the classic game. Some decades later I purchased a completely non-working arcade cocktail … Continue reading →

I am very easily side-tracked and for some time I have been interested in adding chimes to my various radio controlled clocks.  Westminster chimes  or variants thereof are often found in vintage mantel clocks and door chimes and also find … Continue reading →

If you haven’t been living in a cave then you should know that in August this year, 2017, something awesome is planned for North America and if you have been living in a cave then you will be very surprised … Continue reading →

During my recent reverse engineering of a PIC12F675 learning board on EBAY I came across the following piece of code… L7: MOVWF 0x20 CLRF 0x22 L6: CLRF 0x21 L5: MOVF 0x20,W SUBWF 0x21,W BTFSC STATUS,C GOTO L4 INCF 0x21,F GOTO … Continue reading →

So here I am, frittering away a Sunday afternoon, all because I was lured into  Julien Illett’s Youtube Walk down PIC memory lane.  The development board which is useful to play along with these dabblings is an EBAY special which … Continue reading →

I have always had an interest in electronics from a young age, first simply charging capacitors from scrap valve-based TVs and watching the discharge curves and finding something interesting in the mathematics, the same sort of math that can be … Continue reading →

Something a little bit special happened at the end of 2016.  Most people won’t really care about this sort of thing, but to as a contributor to an OpenSource library for decoding broadcast time standards, this sort of thing slightly plays … Continue reading →

Given that my clock driver is complete and seems to work quite nicely I think I will move on to other projects however if anyone else is considering building their own variant to drive a vintage clock then I’ll leave … Continue reading →

My previous experiments around decoding long wave radio time signals primarily involved using the UK’s time signal MSF60 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_from_NPL) previously known as the Rugby time signal. This transmission no longer originates from Rugby, it moved north to cumbria and seems … Continue reading →

So with my clock sitting idle on the wall it is time to come up with a design that will send it periodic pulses, once per minute, with +24V and then -24V on alternate minutes… I really want this to … Continue reading →