I try to summarize some impressions and thoughts I've had on configuration management. At this point I've worked with information technology for about 22 years, and for the last ten-or-so years become convinced that formal configuration management is the way to go. And no, by formal I do not mean a suit, tie and a binder!

The Raspberry Pi is a very versatile tool for any tinkerer. Lately there has been several projects where I wanted to include a Raspberry Pi, but did not have access to the correct voltage power supply. This turned me onto the idea of constructing a "hat" for the Pi that would serve as a power supply with a wide input voltage range.

Before going to a local maker festival I brought my earlier keyboard project to a more usable state. The goal was a sort of interactive conversation piece.

A few years ago I was taking a course on operating systems. As a way to understand more of the basics around processors and machine code, I wrote a very simple "starfield" in Assembly for the Commodore 64.

This is an older reverse engineering project I did. I wrote about it for Rana Makerspace, and decided to make another post with more of the technical details.

When using a microcontroller to read something with lots of inputs, like a keyboard, there aren't enough IO pins to give one to every input. You have to turn to tricks like multiplexing.