There do not seem to be very many posts here. I moved to the idyllic village of West Moors in rural east Dorset not too far from EPE Towers.
I am very well known to the posties at Ferdown Delivery Office due to the vast quantity of electronics goodies I have bought from Banggood and sent from China, HK, Thailand and their European centre. There is therefore a great interest in the EPE articles on using cheapie components. It never cease to amaze me as to how cheaply we can buy components, electronic kits and already constructed goodies from Banggood and AliExpress. I do not mind waiting a short time if I can get a fountain pen for under £2.50 GBP including postage, etc. I recommend several brilliant value solar cells, the regulators for same and several testers, many already built. One sometimes has to Google for assembly or usage manuals which are often supplied in Chinese, but the savings in cost make up for this.
As a maths graduate and some one who started in August 1966 with Marconis at their research labs in Great Baddow, Essex, I am a pure amateur when it comers to electronics and I remember buying the very first issue of Practical Electronics with a cover-mounted goodie from the newsagent kiosk in the tunnel at Clapham Junction station in my first year at Battersea CAT soon to become the Uni of Surrey.
So I bought PE, EE, PW, Elector (wash my mouth out!), and finally the great EPE (crawler!)
As a computer geek I have invested in Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, Orange Pi, Arduino Uno R3, Leonardo. Beaglebone Black, Micro:Bit, etc and spent zillions of pounds on associated books -probably most of those written by Dr. Simon Monk (a Brit who writes a lot in American English!) and many associated kits from the likes of Pimoroni in Sheffield, my late mum's birth place.
My aim is to use each mcu or single board computer to build a series of weather stations, I have bought the kit to build a RC2014 Z80 single board computer, totally British design.
I have a history of programming the KDF9, the ICL System 4 (an IBM 360 clone) on both the batch and Multijob operating nsystems, the Z80 micro, and using just about every high level language from Algol 60, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, Ada, C, C++, C#, you name it.
Please keep up the good work on EPE and it took me a very long time to "twig" the colour of the LEDs on the Editorial page correspond to the colours of the rainbow in reverse!!!
Phil
West Moors Dorset and mem sec of Home Watch therein
I am very well known to the posties at Ferdown Delivery Office due to the vast quantity of electronics goodies I have bought from Banggood and sent from China, HK, Thailand and their European centre. There is therefore a great interest in the EPE articles on using cheapie components. It never cease to amaze me as to how cheaply we can buy components, electronic kits and already constructed goodies from Banggood and AliExpress. I do not mind waiting a short time if I can get a fountain pen for under £2.50 GBP including postage, etc. I recommend several brilliant value solar cells, the regulators for same and several testers, many already built. One sometimes has to Google for assembly or usage manuals which are often supplied in Chinese, but the savings in cost make up for this.
As a maths graduate and some one who started in August 1966 with Marconis at their research labs in Great Baddow, Essex, I am a pure amateur when it comers to electronics and I remember buying the very first issue of Practical Electronics with a cover-mounted goodie from the newsagent kiosk in the tunnel at Clapham Junction station in my first year at Battersea CAT soon to become the Uni of Surrey.
So I bought PE, EE, PW, Elector (wash my mouth out!), and finally the great EPE (crawler!)
As a computer geek I have invested in Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, Orange Pi, Arduino Uno R3, Leonardo. Beaglebone Black, Micro:Bit, etc and spent zillions of pounds on associated books -probably most of those written by Dr. Simon Monk (a Brit who writes a lot in American English!) and many associated kits from the likes of Pimoroni in Sheffield, my late mum's birth place.
My aim is to use each mcu or single board computer to build a series of weather stations, I have bought the kit to build a RC2014 Z80 single board computer, totally British design.
I have a history of programming the KDF9, the ICL System 4 (an IBM 360 clone) on both the batch and Multijob operating nsystems, the Z80 micro, and using just about every high level language from Algol 60, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, Ada, C, C++, C#, you name it.
Please keep up the good work on EPE and it took me a very long time to "twig" the colour of the LEDs on the Editorial page correspond to the colours of the rainbow in reverse!!!
Phil
West Moors Dorset and mem sec of Home Watch therein
