The day the Raspberry Pi was launched, I ordered two of the things, one from each supplier.

They both arrived within a day of each other.

Oops.

(Don't worry, I lent one somewhere important.)

Not a primitive cochlear implant.

Dead bug, or extracted polyfuse?

Injecting new signals for fun and SCIENCE!

Roberts R707 radio. 1970s British goodness, with granny-vibrating bass.

Maximum-current replacements in action, in-radio. Working, stable WiFi!

(Note: this modification absolutely not necessary on recent Raspberry Pis, just ancient ones like mine.)

Initial wired version, ethernet and Pi-power cables still poking out.

Wired Radio-4-Matic in action. Must ... add ... WiFi.

My computer is smaller than yours!

ROBERTS RADIO CO., LTD.

VERY IMPORTANT

It is essential in any enquiry

regarding this receiver to quote

Model and Serial Numbers.

Model R707 Ser. No. 17187

Old Soviet LOMO microscope, newly repaired.

Injecting radiohead into radio.

Dual antennas for LW, MW, SW and WiFi.

A distraction: I had an old EOS 40D with an apparently dead shutter. Wanting to escape the horrendously expensive official repair, having monkeyed around in a dSLR before, I got a replacement shutter on eBay and tried the fix myself.

Turns out, it wasn't the shutter. But I didn't break anything new!

Version 2 of the Radio-4-Matic.

High-current, home-made replacement.

Pesky polyfuses, limiting my USB current.

Solder one...

You may have noticed a theme this year - old printing and communications hardware. So, somewhat foolishly, I acquired an old military teletype...

(It mostly works - the power supply is a bit dodgy, and one of the stepper motors a bit sticky, but it's mostly operational. Project for this next year - get it fully working, and interfaced with something modern!)

Solder two!

zomg british!!1

(I've got one of the early, Chinese-made Raspberry Pis.)

Polyfuses, begone!

Raspberry Pi, for scale.

New home...

Clamping.

Note the lovely* 1970s soldering.

Roberts R707 for maximum awesomeness.

Reassembly!

(Heading straight towards another Error 99. Ouch.)

After (rather expensive) official repair, it's taken tens of thousands more photos, doing timelapse stuff.

Wireless wireless!

Potato-box?

New wires!

When a big camera is massively reduced in size due to all the removed parts, it's bloody terrifying.

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That hard disk is running. Surprisingly, it started picking up errors after a few minutes - before slowly grinding its way towards a hard crash...

Indirectly photographic, here's the innards of my self-designed Timelapse-O-Tron 9000(tm).

(The SD card is kind of pointless.)

Resources Techupgrade

With permission, but it's not my photograph. Amazing thing written up for my blog.

Begin the conversion to infrared!

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