"Hey there!" and welcome to my little page!

What's it all about? It began as a simple notepad for myself - just to have a central place to put all my notes about the numerous projects I'm running... mostly in parallel but often with pauses over several months. When returning to a stalled project I had to admit that I've forgotten half of the things I've discovered last time working on it.

That said, welcome to my public notepad ;-)

What's on these pages? I'm a total hardware geek. I LOVE hardware... if it's real men's hardware. Real what?! Real men's hardware is something which nearly isn't build anymore... here are Axels laws defining real men's hardware:

• It's big - go away with those tiny, fiddly things like mobile phones, iPods'n'stuff. So when I'm talking about an [E]ISA expansion board it's at least half-size (~6,5").
• It was fu**ing expensive when new. No hobbyist could afford it back then. Now you can!
• It has at least one CPU. The more, the better. CPU, not some specialized ASIC. This point might have its roots in the fact that I also collect CPUs ;)
• It offers you some ways of improvement. i.e. not completely build with SMD parts.
• It does not need to be excepionally ingenious, well designed or good looking. If it does, we have a perfect-10... if it only meets the first 4 points, that's still OK.
• Blinking LEDs will give extra points! ;)