Interest - Electronics

I've long enjoyed challenges of design, manufacture, repair, and reuse of electronics. It ties together most of my other interests.

The above is an old MP3 media player I reconstructed out of an old Pentium-II laptop that had been sadly thrown out for its obsolescence. The finished project itself is now a bit redundant, fifteen years later I'm streaming most of my favourite music from Spotify rather than playing it from storage.

Things change.

Way back at high school, I was the useful kid that repaired friends' transistor radios. Back then I constructed door entrance alarms, intercoms, audio effect mixers and other gadget like things with plans published in the monthly collected 'Everyday Electronics' magazine.

In 1985, as a result of that hobbyist interest, I did an undergraduate Honours Degree course in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. My final year project was the design of a standalone recorder device to capture Teletext broadcast data pages over to floppy disc.

This wire-wrapped Motorola 6809 microprocessor board is all that remains of it.

At college, I spent many happy times with my college Radio Society mates fooling around with Amateur Radio transmitting equipment, home computers, Hi-Fi, televisions and video recorders.

However, the pastime has unfortunately turned me into a human squirrel!

For years, I've been hiding a "this one day could be useful" personal electronic junk store. There are some items which have been waiting a very long time for their rightful departure destination.

Is that destination eBay or the skip?