Projects
Naz80-A
Not Another Z80 (yes, that’s what the N stands for) — a homebrew retro computer starting at a hex keypad and an LCD, with plans to climb to CP/M and a floppy drive. No microcontrollers allowed to do the heavy lifting, just a childhood ZX81 dream finally being built one revision at a time.
Dodeca Timer
A dodecahedron that tracks your day — flip the face for the task you’re on and an STM32 logs the time, lights the side, and saves it to flash. The capstone build from Elecia White’s Making Embedded Systems course, with DMA-driven NeoPixels, an accelerometer for orientation, and a CLI over xBee RF.
MZ80K Retro Cassette Project
Decoding Sharp MZ80K tapes the hard way — a Commodore 64 cassette deck, an STM32, and a hand-built PCB, with no SD cards or fast loaders allowed. An ongoing reverse-engineering log of the real MZ80K tape format, including all the bits the documentation got wrong.