Aaron S. Jackson - Blog

A Big Clock

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:35:00 +0100

Summer of ice hockey

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:59:00 +0100

EMF Camp 2026

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0100

So many scrimmages

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:14:00 +0100

Full Ice Scrimmage!

Mon, 25 May 2026 22:22:00 +0100

The HP 2225 ThinkJet

Mon, 18 May 2026 22:30:00 +0100

GPO Phone Exchange Lamp

Mon, 18 May 2026 22:25:00 +0100

Hockey Jersey Sublimation Printing

Sat, 16 May 2026 19:23:00 +0100

Hockey Lessons are Fun

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:35:00 +0100

Too many hobbies

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:35:00 +0100

2026 IIHF Continental Cup Final (Photo Dump...)

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:31:00 +0000

What I've done this year

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:53:00 +0000

Ice Skating!

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:35:00 +0000

Debugging ATTiny1616 with Atmel ICE

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:12:00 +0100

Flipdot Display!

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:04:00 +0100

Ear-lectronics

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:15:00 +0100

MNT Pocket Reform

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:45:00 +0100

Power over Ethernet, LaserDiscs, miscellaneous projects

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:12:00 +0100

Nottingham City Farm

Thu, 15 May 2025 12:47:00 +0100

Tektronix TDS3014

Mon, 12 May 2025 16:13:00 +0100

Fixing my Kenwood TH-D74e

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:54:00 +0000

Building an LED Matrix

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:46:00 +0000

Every kitchen needs an LED matrix

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:55:00 +0000

Building PDP-11 Memory

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:08:00 +0000

Train Departure Board (v2)

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:15:00 +0000

What I've done this year

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:55:00 +0000

Uses This

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Jodrell Bank

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Antenna Rotator... and Satellite Dishes

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:46:00 +0100

Antenna Rotator

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:12:00 +0100

Meshtastic

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:02:00 +0100

EMF Camp 2024

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:48:00 +0100

Another LED Matrix Display

Sun, 26 May 2024 23:56:00 +0100

Adafruit Feather 32u4 LoRa (RFM69) as a Pager Transmitter

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 23:21:00 +0000

Train Departures Board at Nottingham Hackspace

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 18:38:00 +0000

A trip to Jodrell Bank

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:38:00 +0000

RSECon 23

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:41:00 +0100

A Nixie Clock

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:49:00 +0100

Nottingham Industrial Museum

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:36:00 +0100

A more permanent VAX 4000 power supply

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 09:17:00 +0100

Trip to Sweden

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:03:00 +0000

IPv6 with Zen CityFibre and an EdgeRouter

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:10:00 +0000

Nottingham Lightnight 2023

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 21:00:00 +0000

A LED matrix clock, and cat flap monitoring, with ESPHome

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 18:56:00 +0000

Hacking a doorbell (adding WiFi)

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:25:00 +0000

Zen CityFibre / EdgeRouter

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:53:00 +0100

Learning about milling

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 21:07:00 +0100

Levoit Air Purifier with Home Assistant

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:07:00 +0100

Growing Elm Oyster Mushrooms

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 10:31:00 +0100

Tektronix 604

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:00:00 +0100

Joining Nottingham Hackspace (and making something)

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 17:55:00 +0100

EMF Camp 2022

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 22:50:00 +0100

e-ink display for Home Assistant & Grafana

Sat, 21 May 2022 23:13:00 +0100

Improving my desk situation

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:46:00 +0000

Making some progress with the cabling

Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:38:00 +0000

Notes to myself about YubiKeys

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:19:00 +0000

Going a bit crazy with Home Assistant and Zigbee

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:05:00 +0000

A Continuous Integration Pipeline for the PDP-11 (2.11BSD)

Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:26:00 +0100

The Surly Disc Trucker

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 22:20:00 +0100

Writing Drivers for 2.11BSD

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 21:35:00 +0100

Fixing the PDP-11 Power Supply (again)

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 00:32:00 +0100

Work In Progress - Rewiring my home network

Sun, 22 Aug 2021 18:09:00 +0100

Dynamic DNS Updates with Terraform

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 18:48:00 +0100

Migrating a Virtual Machine from Scaleway to Proxmox

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:22:00 +0100

Packer with proxmox-clone

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 13:49:00 +0100

An update, I guess

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:48:00 +0100

Getting to Wales

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:39:00 +0100

RL02 - A Disk Pack of Worms (Work in Progress)

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 21:20:00 +0000

Playing with a Photomultiplier Tube

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:59:00 +0000

DEC VAX 4000-300 up and running

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:36:00 +0100

Standing Desks and Other Office Related Stuff (oh, and I got a new bike)

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 23:21:00 +0100

Thinking about bikepacking

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 22:32:00 +0100

12AX7 Pre-amp build

Sun, 17 May 2020 11:55:00 +0100

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation in MATLAB

Sun, 03 May 2020 01:36:00 +0100

Loftboratory April 2020 Status

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 17:57:00 +0100

Garmin Varia UT800

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 21:49:00 +0100

VT220 Debugging (again...)

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:40:00 +0100

Photos from March 2020

Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:15:00 +0100

Slurm and Hardware Accelerated OpenGL

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 23:48:00 +0100

Garmin 130 Edge

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 10:21:00 +0000

I switched to clipless pedals

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:28:00 +0000

Graduation No. 2

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:33:00 +0000

Goodbye escher, thanks for all the mail

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:45:00 +0000

Photos of RCA AR88

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:40:00 +0100

Leak Stereo 20 Restoration

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 22:02:00 +0100

Crosstour CT7000 RTSP WiFi

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:59:00 +0100

Portable HF Bag

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:24:00 +0100

Going Portable with Ham Radio

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 22:20:00 +0100

History of Nottingham University [Amateur] Radio Society

Sun, 04 Aug 2019 23:37:00 +0100

Let the brewing begin

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:22:00 +0100

PhD Viva

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:22:00 +0100

WEFax and HF Radio Stuff

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:54:00 +0100

9:1 Unun

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:17:00 +0100

A Visit to National Museum of Computing

Sat, 25 May 2019 17:21:00 +0100

A nice "Personal Day"

Fri, 17 May 2019 22:12:00 +0100

I'm Dill, the dog.

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:44:00 +0100

Gretsch G5622T

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:36:00 +0000

Arduino home power monitor

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:43:00 +0000

ZFS (on Linux) Quotas over NFS

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:57:00 +0000

Uhoh, fat again

Sun, 03 Feb 2019 11:42:00 +0000

Distributed Learning in PyTorch

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 18:44:00 +0000

New ZFS Storage for the Computer Vision Lab

Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:45:00 +0000

Hyperparameter Optimisation with Slurm

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:21:00 +0000

ECCV 2018, Munich, Germany and Deutsches Museum

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:22:00 +0100

I passed my foundation radio exam!

Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:54:00 +0100

Problems with PCIe switching

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:41:00 +0100

Trying Strava

Sun, 22 Jul 2018 21:57:00 +0100

I built a curve tracer

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:06:00 +0100

VAX 4000 Power Supply

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 23:38:00 +0100

HiFiBerry with PulseAudio over Network

Tue, 29 May 2018 17:59:00 +0100

Inside the NAD C 338

Thu, 24 May 2018 18:47:00 +0100

NAD C 338

Tue, 22 May 2018 23:13:00 +0100

GPIB to USB Adapter

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:25:00 +0100

Have I found the problem with my RL02 Drives?

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:21:00 +0100

New Osmelloscope (... oscilloscope) Tek TDS420A

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0100

RL02 Progress

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:38:00 +0000

Cleaning/Repairing Crashed RL02 Heads

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:14:00 +0000

Lofboratory Status Feb 2018

Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:13:00 +0000

Playing with Linux on AlterPath ACS, in the hope of replacing OpenSSHd (Part 1)

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:23:00 +0000

AlterPatch ACS Console Server

Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:27:00 +0000

Bittersweet Victory

Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:21:00 +0000

A bit more RL02 progress

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:08:00 +0000

RX02 Drives are working! Say hello to RT-11

Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:17:00 +0000

RL02 Sadness

Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:09:00 +0000

Making progress with the RX02 drive

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 23:09:00 +0000

I got a logic analyzer

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 23:29:00 +0000

WiFi Rain Meter

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:49:00 +0000

Finally started insulating the loft

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:58:00 +0000

Making progress with RL02 Drives

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:05:00 +0000

RL02 Spinup Failure

Sun, 05 Nov 2017 17:47:00 +0000

RL02 debugging

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 22:34:00 +0000

More Debugging of the PDP-11 H7861 PSU (I fixed it!)

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:23:00 +0000

Mystery PDP-11

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:44:00 +0000

ICCV 2017, Venice

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 19:48:00 +0000

Thinking about audio

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:04:00 +0100

Rex configuration management

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 17:30:00 +0100

The PDP-11 is here

Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:14:00 +0100

Tiring week

Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:59:00 +0100

Office365

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:01:00 +0100

Escher has a case

Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:29:00 +0100

More Complexity - dhcpd

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:44:00 +0100

Potato Harvest

Fri, 25 Aug 2017 19:20:00 +0100

Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire

Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:33:00 +0100

Playing around with MRTG

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:18:00 +0100

Automatic reverse DNS zonefile generation

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:25:00 +0100

I have a PDP-11!

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:04:00 +0100

Email Auto Responder - inotifywait

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:08:00 +0100

RX02 8in Floppies

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:14:00 +0100

UoN Computer Science turns 30

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:47:00 +0100

The night before the event (2.11BSD UNIX Repair)

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 22:18:00 +0100

(Even More) Fun with bnl

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 22:19:00 +0100

(More) Fun with bnl

Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:27:00 +0100

Cleaning up my Emacs config

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:45:00 +0100

Dilbert went for a wander

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:55:00 +0100

Blocking countries with pf

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:16:00 +0100

Plant Update

Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:56:00 +0100

I bought a Camera

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:24:00 +0100

RAID 6 mdadm + NFS sync/async

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 12:17:00 +0100

Brian Kernighan

Sat, 17 Jun 2017 19:36:00 +0100

Fun with RL02 Drives

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:10:00 +0100

ThinkPad X220 Replacement Battery

Wed, 31 May 2017 18:56:00 +0100

PDP-11 leads

Fri, 26 May 2017 17:33:00 +0100

Growing Food (Poorly)

Fri, 19 May 2017 20:40:00 +0100

iD Mobile

Tue, 16 May 2017 22:51:00 +0100

VT220 Restoration (Part 2)

Sat, 06 May 2017 11:48:00 +0100

Extreme Spam Filtering

Wed, 03 May 2017 17:41:00 +0100

VT220 Restoration

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 20:12:00 +0100

Smart Meter

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:11:00 +0100

COMPUTER MUSEUM!

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:04:00 +0100

Baked Beans

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:43:00 +0100

The Search For The Perfect UMPC

Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:45:00 +0100

Speaking email notifications

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:39:00 +0000

Fun with Environment Modules

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:07:00 +0000

Remembering Birthdays

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:10:00 +0000

Obtaining free Cisco IOS Updates

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0000

1-Wire bus for temperature logging

Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:08:00 +0000

Cisco Switch Graphing

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:02:00 +0000

I bought a new bike

Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:55:00 +0000

Bike needs repairing, but is it worth it?

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:09:00 +0000

We finally furnished the lounge

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 19:03:00 +0000

Goodbye Facebook

Mon, 26 Dec 2016 18:40:00 +0000

Dirty Load Balancing

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:14:00 +0000

Round Two: Fish Numbers

Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:17:00 +0000

Torch on GCC 6.2 (Fedora 24)

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:37:00 +0000

Insulating and Boarding the loft... Planning, no progress

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:26:00 +0000

My Stew - Recipe

Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:26:00 +0000

Calculating Projection Matrices for MATLAB/Simulink Virtual Reality Toolbox

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:47:00 +0000

ECCV 2016, Amsterdam

Mon, 10 Oct 2016 09:13:00 +0100

Sun Blade 150

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 20:40:00 +0100

SSSD simple_allow_users Management Script

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:16:00 +0100

New Things!

Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:53:00 +0100

Cats are stupid

Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:22:00 +0100

No-NAT ISP Comparison Chart

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:33:00 +0100

VAXstation 3100/M76 Crashing when Warm

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 01:54:00 +0100

WWAN Setup

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:44:00 +0100

Planting & Harvesting Plan

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 22:22:00 +0100

Thinking about Home Automation

Sat, 06 Aug 2016 10:46:00 +0100

Exploring WWAN Options on ThinkPad X220

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:10:00 +0100

OpenBSD on a VAXstation 3100 M76

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:30:00 +0100

VT420 Meta (Alt) Key

Wed, 22 Jun 2016 01:19:00 +0100

Found a HP 712/60

Mon, 30 May 2016 19:17:00 +0100

GNU Screen. My Personal Reference.

Fri, 27 May 2016 22:51:00 +0100

Okay, DIY Oral Irrigator

Sun, 22 May 2016 22:13:00 +0100

Glorious VT420

Fri, 20 May 2016 22:49:00 +0100

Glorious X220

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 23:25:00 +0100

First RTTY Reception

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:14:00 +0100

Maildir Notifications

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:21:00 +0000

Syntax Highlighting in Caffe Prototxt on Emacs

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:30:00 +0000

Monthly Review: January 2016

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:38:00 +0000

2015 in Pictures

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 07:00:00 +0000

R

Sat, 02 Jan 2016 21:54:00 +0000

Monthly Review: December 2015

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 23:42:00 +0000

Bucketlist for 2016

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Caffe Logging and Loss Plotting

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:16:00 +0000

Monthly Review: November 2015

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:33:00 +0000

Working Remotely

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:00:00 +0000

Monthly Review: October 2015

Sun, 01 Nov 2015 12:22:00 +0000

Quick Update

Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:18:00 +0100

Monthly Review: September 2015

Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:25:00 +0100

Moving to Nottingham

Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:47:00 +0100

Matlab Tinycode

Sat, 19 Sep 2015 09:35:00 +0100

Org-Mode Clock In and Clock Out

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:03:00 +0100

Swedish Recap #1 - General Phrases

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:11:00 +0100

Dell XPS 13 (2015) Display Switch on Linux

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:12:00 +0100

Org-Mode Tag Index (for blogging!)

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 02:26:00 +0100

Monthly Review: August 2015

Mon, 07 Sep 2015 18:03:00 +0100

How My org-mode Blog Works

Mon, 07 Sep 2015 15:16:00 +0100

A Blog Post

Sun, 06 Sep 2015 18:20:00 +0100