Wooden boatbuilding, Lugged steel bicycle frames, computers. The usual.
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
Getting my modified Basic to work on the ubee512 Microbee emulator
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I spent some time adapting my basic so that it'll work on the Compact Flash Coreboard. I realised that ubee512 has the ability to emulat...
Saturday, 18 April 2026
A USB PAK Cart for Freebee
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Greybeard on MSPP has developed code to use a CH376 USB host interface on a Microbee, allowing reading and writing of FAT partitioned USB st...
Thursday, 16 April 2026
This time, the bodge is not my fault
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I spent some time earlier in the week diagnosing an issue with the latest Freebee premium board, where monitors were dropping out of sync wh...
Saturday, 11 April 2026
Extending Microbee Basic for the PAK Cart Coreboard
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Now that I've got Basic properly figured out, I can do absolutely whatever I like with it. On the Premium bee, there's a third ...
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Reverse engineering Microbee Basic
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TLDR version: I am reverse engineering Microbee Basic. My disassembled code is on my google drive . It's getting pretty complete, to ...
Sunday, 4 January 2026
A PAK Coreboard for Freebee using Cartridges.
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I follow Natalie the Nerd on Bluesky, who does the most amazing things with Gameboy hardware recreations, including (I kid you not) makin...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
An LCD for Freebee
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I've got this idea for making a coreboard that plugs in to freebee that contains it's own LCD controller. I can buy (from Core el...
Thursday, 26 June 2025
A Z180 Freebee
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When I was young, I read byte. I was a weird kid. One of my favourite columns was Steve Garcia's Circuit Cellar, because he had a rea...
Sunday, 11 May 2025
Moar Video Memory
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Brad and uBee on MSPP ganged up on me. The Microbee Premium is capable of running a full 32K of PCG RAM, if you unsolder the two 0.6...
Friday, 9 May 2025
Freebees in the wild
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I've been encouraging people building Freebees to post pictures of their machines. I derive great satisfaction from seeing the custom...
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