
United Kingdom
Freelance Consultant | AB Open
Open source (hardware and software!) advocate, Treasurer and Director of the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation, organiser of Wuthering Bytes technology festival and founder of the Open Source Hardware User Group.
Published Content

1 month ago
Getting Started with the Renesas EK-RA6M4 Microcontroller Dev Kit
Andrew Back tests the Renesas RA6M4 family of microcontrollers with the new EK-RA6M4 development kit and a look at the programming software with several example pieces of code

2 months ago
Getting Started with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB
Setting up and an introduction to Jetson AI training and certification.

3 months ago
The WFH Engineer
Getting set up for working from home as an electronics engineer.

3 months ago
Jetson Nano 2GB Makes AI Even More Accessible
New NVIDIA developer kit further lowers the barrier to getting hands-on with AI, robotics and other applications which benefit from CUDA accelerated compute.

3 months ago
Hands-on with Microchip SAM-IoT WG
IoT development board combines low power 32-bit ARM Cortex M0+ with slick sensor to cloud out-of-the-box experience.

4 months ago
Getting Started with PSoC 6 BLE Prototyping Kit and ModusToolbox
Hands on with CY8CPROTO-063-BLE and the flexible ModusToolbox platform.

4 months ago
A Trip Back in Time via The RS Data Library
A look back at a much loved engineer’s treasure trove of information from the pre-Web days.

5 months ago
Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 2: Cleaning up, and Additional PSU and NVRAM Work
Cleaning plastic parts, replacing more PSU caps, a new fan and an NVRAM fix.

6 months ago
Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and NVRAM
Repairing a dead power supply and replacing the NVRAM in a vintage UNIX workstation.

7 months ago
Hands-on with the Connected Lighting Platform
Setting up the development tools and exploring the examples provided with the ON Semiconductor kit.

8 months ago
ON Semiconductor Connected Lighting Platform Provides Head Start for Advanced Solutions
A first look at the LIGHTING-1-GEVK development platform and PoE module.

9 months ago
Install NetBSD on a Vintage Computer
Put that cherished computer to good use, while getting hands-on with an O/S that can trace its history back over more than 40 years and which remains actively developed today.