Making an Infrared Remote Interface for the Pioneer PD-Z83M
I made a little black box over the Bank Holiday break. I’ve had a Pioneer PD-Z83M multi-changer CD player since I was a kid, and it was how I listened to a lot of the music of my formative years. I remember listening to Fields of the Nephilim’s sprawling masterpiece Elizium on it at university, […]
Long-form Lockdown Project: Wired and Boxed
That silly thing I was working on? Well, my extra buttons and LED holders and a step drill bit and a cheap box arrived (thanks, RS and eBay, especially RS for having a vast range of boxes that you can filter by dimensions) and so I got out my soldering iron and wired it all […]
Long-form Lockdown Project: A Random Album Player
For the last couple of years, I’ve been trying to combat my shortening attention span, mostly by getting back into longer-form media. Books, for example: in 2019 I set myself a target of reading a couple of books a month, and actually managed to read 41 in the year. Based on that, my challenge this […]
Counter
335/365 It’s been sitting in my hall for months; I’ve never got around to taking it to the militaria place in town who might want it. I bought it at some odd electronics shop in Lincoln, years and years ago. It needs an obsolete military 60v battery, from what I remember, so I’ve never worked […]
