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  I recently purchased a The Adafruit USBtinyISP AVR Programmer Kit from Adafruit.  If you are unsure as to what this is, have a look at my article here.  Although I want to use this programmer to try out some of the AVR based projects detailed on the internet, I figured that I needed to have a proj…

Thunderhammer3000 (AKA Ben Scott) has posted a great idea over on Flickr.  Frustrated at the low quality of standard proto-board Thunderhammer designed some for personal use and then had a large batch made up for projects. Ben is clearly an AVR enthusiast, and has geared the prototyping board with …

I was sent a copy of this deal from Maplin today, Looks to be a great price on the EeePC.  Its the Windows XP version that they are selling.  You may not be aware but Asus is moving the Eee range to the larger 10’ models.  Personally I prefer the 9’ screen.  I think that the 9’ model is about the …

I have to admit that I sometimes suffer from an overactive wishful thinking gland.  And recently it’s being playing up again.  My current wish is to be able to program my own microprocessors.  Across the web, there are so many brilliant projects using PIC or AVR processors.  Of course to program the…

Over at DIY audio Projects, they have added a couple of new do it yourself audio cable articles.  Commercial audio cables range in price from a few pounds to a basic model, up into thousands of pounds for the most exotic.  Clearly a frugal audio builder is unlikely to give away so much hard earned c…

Adam Walker has produced an incredible looking pre-amplifier, In this article he talks though his build.  Although casework was manufactured for him by a couple of companies the design work for the front panel is his own.  This project really shows off the resources that are available to the hobby b…

During the last few months, Asus has started selling the "eeePC 1000H GO" with internal 3G/HSDPA card for easy everywhere connectivity. While this is surely a welcome addition to the Eee PC range, customers such as Dennis  were left wondering if they had purchased too early. Dennis wanted 3G mobile …

I hope that you have had a chance to look around the site and have enjoyed your stay at Justblair’s.  The site is relatively new, but is hopefully growing in its size and quality every day.  Keeping up to date with a site can be hard work, but this week I have been working on the site to develop the…