Bank holiday project

Retropi mini arcade.  Up cycled an old PS3 controller with a raspberry pi and a 5 inch touch screen.  

Cleaning, Cleaning and more cleaning!

A before and after shot

Cleaning is slow going job, but the results are worth it.  Looking at coating in zinc to protect the parts.

A another before and after for the seat mount

Going back to basics

6502 emulator with a pi zero, and real 80's input method!

Good use of an old book, recovered with something appropriate for the content

Hex keypad input, with LCD showing the state of 6502 registers and flags. 

LEDs mapped to memory for some output, this will also include switches for input at a later date. 

6502 pi

Found a use for the free pi zero, a 6502 emulator - in the style of a 1980's dev board.  

I need to add some more I/O mapped to virtual memory 

Three weeks in vinegar

The process is a little slow, but soaking parts in vinegar seems to remove most of the rust.  This is going to be a very long process, but its very satisfying bringing the old parts back to life after many years being covered in rust.  Once the nice weather makes an appearance then I can start painting some of the parts that are not going to be powder coated.

Nice clean piston, ready for new rings

First trip out

Short trip out to see how the new bike rides.

Very well!

New bike, new tyre

I have repaired the switch on the instrument panel and have ordered a new rear tyre. I have a couple of other tidy-up jobs to do, then we can go for a ride.