User:Msemtd

Hi my name's Michael Erskine and I'm a recovering software engineer. Please sponsor my efforts to move into the world of hardware where I can't just allocate an array of ten thousand objects to do my bidding. I can't even find the right capacitor!

Areas of interest and/or skill

• bicycles
• 1980s arcade machine culture
• C, Perl, Java
• Debian GNU Linux
• skateboarding
• twisty puzzles and speedcubing
• tattooing

Current Projects

• Home arcade machine revamp
  • recover games (and most importantly, the high scores) from the dead laptop
    • HDD totally dead :( Need to obtain ROM sets again
  • mamed front end http://phulshof.home.xs4all.nl/mame.html - compile and tweak
  • better linux distro base - have kubuntu 7.10 - want Knoppix 6
  • rewire controls matrix - should take a couple of hours
  • Noisy fan on PC - heatpipe? ideas please

• Non-smokers' Pipe
• Breaduino to stripboarduino to own-PCB-duino
  • paperduino
  • paperftdi
  • FTDI-board
• LCPxpresso - poor man's TCP/IP "shield"
• Cheesoid
• Poor Man's CNC
• AwesomeShield
• U-Boat
• HackSpace Opening Party Organisation
• Waste and Recycling Initiative
• HackSpace Instrumentation I seem to have taken on the role of "cheap-talker" :)
  • who-is-in I'd like to know who (if anyone) is in the space at any particular time
  • Nanode -- ethernet capable Arduino project
• Home Instrumentation

I Can Be Found At...

• https://profiles.google.com/msemtd#msemtd/about
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/msemtd
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/msemtd
• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21085792@N00/
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/msemtd

My domains: -

• tecspy.com
• mickapedia.com
• vebug.com
• ukcubemasters.com
• halfpipeandslippers.com

IRC

• msemtd on freenode etc. #rubiks #nlug
• irssi in Poor Man's Service

Email (do people still use that?)

• msemtd@googlemail.com
• msemtd@yahoo.co.uk
• mick@tecspy.com

Forums

• Middle Age Shred
• SpeedSolving.com