Month January 2009

X-Windows font

Fun With Fonts

The BMOW display circuitry supports bitmap fonts, with each character on an 8×16 pixel grid. When I first built the hardware, I used an 8×16 font from X-Windows, but I never cared for it much. Here’s what it looks like:…

Fudging It

I showed off BMOW to an old college friend the other day. He and I did all the digitial electronics labs together at MIT, where I learned what little I know about how to build a computer. Sadly, he seemed…

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