John Boxall

Brutalist architecture, chess, electronics, food, LEGO, railways. I don't reward laziness. VK4JBX. Also @tronixlabs @tronixstuff

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

If you're awesome and bought a copy of any of my books, don't forget to download the code files from https://t.co/2WXwwPAWvB #Arduino

[KiCad PCB @kicad_pcb]

KiCad Version 10.0.0 Released

The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest major stable version 10 release. See the blog post on the KiCad website for more information about this release.

https://t.co/ucrEa3K2k0

[No Starch Press @nostarch]

🚨Our Electronics for the Curious @humble bundle is now LIVE. Pay what you want for up to 21 books worth $500+. Build circuits, robots, and gadgets that actually work. Plus: support @EFF. https://t.co/9UHta3QwIV

[Dick Smith @DickSmithFairGo]

What Australian journalists won't tell you. "In 2024, nuclear reactors globally produced a record 2,667 TWh of electricity." Australia's entire annual electricity consumption is around 250 (TWh) - less than a tenth of the total electricity being generated by nuclear in the world.

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

Barracuda (Heart cover) by Cybertronic Spree https://t.co/QhmQEYYqBv

[karl von moller @karlvonmoller]

SNOCOM - Ep8 The Computer History of Australia: SNOCOM’s Main Memory was a Serial Magnetic Drum, which provided all forms of memory including its registers & even the Clock. It had just 8KB of RAM by today’s standards but helped build the Snowy Scheme!

https://t.co/omxuFS3iH0

[KiCad PCB @kicad_pcb]

Wayne Stambaugh's talk on the KiCad Project status at KiCon North America is now online at https://t.co/FBPfGq3KU7

Want to join us at the next KiCon? https://t.co/1AH1yFc8gG

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

@Jason_R_Burt A bridge too far.

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

@KevynBGrams @ObsoleteSony I had a Nokia N-Gage for a week. Was a compromise. Now? I don't want to risk dropping an expensive phone to play games.

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

Imagine, it's 1984 and you're using Wordstar on a CP/M machine or a PC clone, knocking out documents using Ctrl-commands etc. Then you see this video - https://t.co/mPHzr9WqTH.

[karl von moller @karlvonmoller]

The next episode of State of Electronics on the Computer History of Australia will drop on the 29th of May. It will be about ADA, Australias 1st fully transistorised digital but “analog” based computer. Details to come soon.

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

@eevblog

[karl von moller @karlvonmoller]

UTECOM was Australia’s 4th computer & was essentially a DEUCE which was the production version of the PILOT ACE, built by the National Physical Laboratory in the UK & based on the design work of British computer pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing.

https://t.co/Kea7oLOaFO

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

@BruceHoult @tronixstuff Yeah. For now.

[karl von moller @karlvonmoller]

Last night, I released a new episode about the computer history of Australia. This time on the computer UTECOM. Operational in 1956, UTECOM was used by Charles Hamblin to create a very early computer language called GEORGE. It used his invention of RPN.

https://t.co/gFiU0tQG0X

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

@eevblog hope they don't cut Linda's scene at the waterhole...

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

@arek31415 Yup.

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

@VoteLewko it's 6 o'clock on the doomsday clock

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

@PcPhilanthropy We used them for rotating backups in retail... click click..... we went back to zipping the hard drive every night and exporting to 3.5" disks. thanks for the PTSD.

[John Boxall @johnaboxall]

I can't argue with this AI... "Arduino Workshop" is a solid book to get started with the world of electronics and Arduino - https://t.co/2WXwwPjTtB #arduino @nostarch