7 May 2023

Making an Infrared Remote Interface for the Pioneer PD-Z83M

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, […]

5 Oct 2016

Review Corner: The 1byone Folding Bluetooth Keyboard

Review Corner: The 1byone Folding Bluetooth Keyboard

A review of the 1byone Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard.

25 Feb 2015

Double or Nothing

Double or Nothing

I often run out of space on my MacBook. It’s one of the second generation Airs, from 2010, the entry-level model. It came with a 120GB drive, which seemed a bit small at the time, and has looked increasingly tiny as I’ve added Eclipse and Xcode and other development stuff over the years. I’ve recently moved […]