Andrew Gale

Electronics fun at pocket money prices.

[DCT @Cuber3x3x3]

@Raspberry_Pi @ThePiHut @PocketMoneyTron Is it too soon to put up my Christmas tree?!

#RaspberryPi #Christmas

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@Cuber3x3x3 @Raspberry_Pi @ThePiHut Never too early!!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@toys_retro

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

A bit messy but here is the first of my veroboard #RC2014 boards - it's the 8K ROM board

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

Finally got round to making a start on my #RC2014 ... I'm making some modules on veroboard and I have to say that I'm very much enjoying it. Quite nostalgic and more fun than drawing PCB traces on a computer screen. Also watching old Columbos whilst I do it!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

OK, I'm setting myself the challenge of getting my @ZxSpectROM RC2014 built and running before @computermuseum 's retro event in November!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@Lord_Sugar What with all this renewed interest in distraction-free writing tools, I say: bring back the NC100 !!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

Where is the new non-Twitter place to discuss Raspberry Pi and electronics stuff?! I've never ventured into Mastodon but is that an acceptable alternative to the old Twitter?

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

"Easy to reach, pleasant to visit, and not just shops" is ten words, not nine! @bbcpm

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

An exciting find on a friend's bookshelf!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

Haha, "Hackspace", not "Backspace" !!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

Backspace Magazine absorbed into The MagPi, Everyday Electronics taken over the Silicon Chip.... it's all change in the UK electronics magazine market!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@slbsamantha @RogersHistory Just a big jigsaw, innit?!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@TomFowl49451044 @David_gilbert88 I've tried both approaches (NT6-only and spreadsheet-first) and I think both have their merits. NT6 is brilliant at juggling staffing within blocks and finding swaps. Spreadsheet-first can be more visual and can help with understanding why a block refuses to fit. I use a mixture!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@David_gilbert88 Very interesting - do you decide where the blocks go first and then staff them later?

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@BBCMoreOrLess ... e.g. 180 or 240 students, irrespective of how oversubscribed they are. An undersubscribed school might have smaller class sizes, however, as their intake does not reach their PAN.

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@BBCMoreOrLess In the programme tonight, your guest implied that schools that are very oversubscribe have bigger classes than schools that were not as oversubscribed. Surely this is not correct? If a school is oversubscribed then their intake is limited by their published admission number...

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@whaleygeek I love a diode ROM! I once saw that someone had made a 64 byte cartridge for the Atari 2600 using a diode ROM!

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

Feeling nostalgic for 'old school' hobby electronics... maybe I should knock something up on veroboard or maybe even etch a PCB that I've drawn myself using nail varnish...

[Andrew Gale @PocketMoneyTron]

@NovAutomation @sciencemuseum My favourite part of the whole museum! (The no-longer-working Strowger telephone exchange demonstrator is a close second!)