About Digicool Things

Digicool Things is about all of the cool things that were created with digital technology.

Digital electronics is at the core of just about every smart device that you utilise in your day-to-day life.

So it’s probably not surprising that (these days), many cool things have digital technology at their core!

About Me

My introduction to Digital Electronics was as a teenager back in the 1970’s, enticed by the first digital gate based “pong” TV games.

This lead to my first experience with the Microprocessor. Back then, my initial motivation was simply to replace a board full of digital gate chips, in a specific purpose design, with the more integrated and infinitely more flexible Microprocessor!

This lead me to a lifetime of micro-computing.

Recently, I’ve decided to re-discover my late 70’s and early 80’s experimentation with the early 8-bit microprocessors and peripheral chips.

Back then, we generally used pencil & paper, and used time consuming wire-wrap techniques, to make our one-off digital designs.

Today, we have the advancements of PC based design and modern PCB manufacture, combined with significantly less expensive (to source), recovered retro parts.

Current Focus

As a result of the above, my current focus is on re-discovering my early 8-bit microprocessor experimentation.

Taking advantage of modern design and manufacturing techniques, to re-live the early computing experience in a way that we couldn’t have even dreamed of, back in those early days.

So, I invite you to take a look around. I continue to enjoy all of the projects that I’ve completed over the last few years, and I continue onward with making new projects, as the inspiration comes to mind!

Hopefully, if we are of like minds, you’ll find something that will help to inspire your own projects and creativity.

Most importantly, Have Fun!