Month April 2009

ZOMG!!! I’m exhibiting at the Maker Faire! It’s billed as “the world’s largest DIY festival”, and is happening in the San Francisco Bay Area May 30-31. If you’re anywhere remotely nearby, make a trip to come see BMOW and the…

While updating the BMOW documentation, I came across this diagram of the main system board layout that might be interesting to share. It shows every part on the board, and howthey’re all grouped into the subsystems that form the computer.…

I’ve written one more program for BMOW: a utility to set the date and time. OK, I admit it’s not very exciting, but it is mighty useful when a buggy program overwrites the memory-mapped real-time clock registers for the fifth…