This uses a very old parallel keyboard with a new life with PICAXE projects

A replacement using a 14M2 for a 19-year-old discrete IC wire-wrap board 

Uncharacterized

projects


A thermostatically-controlled 

Exhaust Fan.

A LED strip activated by radar used as a nightlight

LEGO Castle

A fun project made entirely with LEGO blocks and embelleshed by flashing colored LEDs

A 10 cps mechanical counter with a choice of voltage or contact-closure input.

Op Amp with differential inputs and both fixed and external custom feedback.

John’s contributions to the SNOTEL Master Station

This is a window fan which switches on when it gets cooler outside

A remote control for the garage door

This is a battery-powered microwave motion sensor using doppler radar technology. It has its own indicators and relay plus control and information 433 MHz transmissions. 

 

 

2x25W amplifiers

FM Radio

This is a battery-powered  FM radio base on a Si4703 single-chip receiver. It is inside a 1950’s era AM radio box and front panel I made in England before emigrating. 

This is the wooden Art-Deco cabinet of a 1941 GE model LCP-609 AM tube radio, with entirely modern electronics inside