A UK Chartered Electronics Engineer who retired from roles working in IT and Project Management in April 2025. I have a love for embedded systems, PIC micro controllers, Arduino, Raspberry.pi and free and open source software. Currently a proud user of Manjaro/GNU Linux
I am an infrequent poster on mastodon and you can see my posts there.
My workflow and software stack consists of the following brilliant FOSS applications.
- Arduino IDE
- KiCad EDA
- Pasmo Z80 compiler
- Cpanel web hosting
- FreeTube as a more privacy respecting Youtube Client
- KeePassXC Password Manager
- MPLab IDE – Although it doesn’t respect all 4 software freedoms, I don’t currently have another option to generate and simulate Microchip architecture
The equations used on the site are from the brilliant on-line LaTeX editor from online LaTeX editor
Schematics from May 2014 onwards have been created in KiCad EDA Design freeware version
All the code samples that I post to this blog are licensed under the GPLVersion3 GPL Public License