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Alex Brown

Psion Series 3 necromancer. Musician/singer. Podcast producer, dabbling with music production.

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This user joined on 09/17/2018.

My Projects

Resurrecting Psion's SIBO/EPOC16 Platform For The 21st Century

The Last Psion

Supplyframe DesignLab: 2022 Hackada…

In my repeated efforts to drag Psion's 16-bit computers into the 21st century, I'm designing a USB drive for their proprietary SSDs.

Psion SSD Drive (with an RP2040)

My Lists

Retro Interfacing

Connecting new electronics to old.

Curated by Alex Brown

Psion Projects

Anything Psion-related.

Curated by Alex Brown

Homebrew PDAs

Very personal digital assistants.

Curated by Alex Brown

eInk Projects

Projects with eInk and ePaper.

Curated by Alex Brown

Projects I Like & Follow

The WiPhone project is an open source mobile IP phone. WiPhone is intended to be hackable, modular, cheap, and open, while remaining usable.

ESP32 WiPhone

Live-coding an Open-Source Pico Emulator from Scratch

Raspberry Pi Pico Emulator

Supplyframe DesignLab: 2022 Hackada…

Open up a 2010 iPad, remove its logic board, and fabricate a new board based around the Raspberry Pi CM4.

Put a Raspberry Pi CM4 into an original iPad

AVR-based bootloader and IO card for RC2014 retrocomputer

z80ctrl

The ESP32 is a powerful microcontroller, but what games can it actually run?

Gaming on the ESP32 / Odroid-Go

Yet another "Slow Movie Player" implementation with 7-color E-Paper module and ESP32.

Slow Movie Player 7C

Bringing an Eighties handheld classic into the modern world, via a Raspberry Pi Zero, some rewiring and a bit of luck

Getting online with a 1987 Psion Organiser II

Attempting to reverse engineer an HP 4952A into a general purpose z80 computer capable of running CP/M.

HP 4952A turned general purpose CP/M machine

Trevor Johansen Aase

In old PCB's i found a low-capacity FPGA(CPLD) - EPM7064. I decided to make a small evaluation board.

The FPGA evaluation board - Frankenstein

2021 Hackaday Prize

A microATX motherboard that uses a Raspberry Pi Pico as the CPU. SuperVGA output, stereo audio, a BIOS written in Rust and not much RAM!

Neotron Pico

Jonathan 'theJPster' Pallant

Supplyframe DesignLab: 2022 Hackada…

This is a project which shows how to install Kludged Linux on a old Psion 5MX

Psion 5MX - Kludged Linux

A 6-bit 2-stage pipelined RISC CPU that fits on a single page

C61

Put a 90s classic into everyday use as a seriously retro EReader.

Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader

Reads the data from MicroSD card interfaced to LPC2148 and sends via USB.

USB MicroSD card reader

Supplyframe DesignLab: 2022 Hackada…

Contains a linear scale in which the frequency is displayed with an color LED dot which is an integral part of the WS2812 LED strip.

DIY Arduino Retro look FM Radio with linear scale

mircemk mircemk

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

A wearable personal digital assistant always by your side, helping you through your day.

Jeeves

Read your favourite novels on a classic 80s handheld device, with a blocky 16x2 LCD screen. It's what the authors would have wanted.

The Psion Organiser II as an eBook reader

Want to get online on the move with no frills? A classic 30-year-old palmtop computer (plus a Raspberry Pi & 3G/4G dongle) may be the answer

1991 Psion Series 3 as a mobile internet terminal

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