Another MUGWA meeting

MUGWA, the Microbee Users Group of Western Australia, is meeting on 22 November at Bolt Coffee in Midland at 11.

There will be coffee, nibblies, discussion about a crazy 44 year old computer that just won't die. I want to demo various iterations of my FreeBee: Bare FreeBee, FreeBee Premium, SuperPAK, Compact Flash, and my latest obsession (pictured below), my PAK Cart coreboard running on FreeBee Premium, running my modified basic with lots of extra goodies.

In order to do that I need to free FreeBee from the desk. I used a USB power delivery trigger board from Jaycar to give my 9V from a USB C power bank, which I power my LCD display and Freebee with, then I use a little DC-DC converter to power the GBS8220 scan doubler. All that circuitry gets hidden in a little Hammond enclosure that has my LCD mounted to the front. A few 3D printed bits later, and I've got a teensy USB C powered CGA monitor.

I reckon it looks rather spiffy, and lets me do show and tell of my FreeBee hardware and software easily. Come along on the 22nd for a look!