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PPC GPS Maps
Put your own maps on a Personal Pocket Computer
This is a direct request for help.
I have a problem and I need someone to show me what is wrong with my thinking.
A simple Basic program for making a permanent record of trips and walks.
Written in NS Basic for a Bluetooth GPS device it should be adaptable for other dialects, languages and hardware.
How to put your own map scans on to an Acer-n35 PPC and use the inbuilt GPS to show location.
Simple Basic routines as the components of your own mapping program are described.
A Secret Code
A non-trivial coding algorithm.
A tricky mathematical problem. Can you solve it?
A simple method of coding text to make it secret. The method is simple yet difficult to break.
Both 'pencil and paper' and computer program versions are shown. Try it for yourself.
A glance back at some of the influential games in the development of personal computing.
A PIC Programmer
A programmer for the Motorola MC68HRC908xxx
Some Notes for the Guidance of Prisoners of War.
This details a few of the changes I shall be making when I am appointed as Minister of Transport.
Ever thought of trying to program an embedded microcontroller? Build yourself a simple programmer.
GPS
What is it all about?
My foray into the world of hand held GPS. It centres on the Garmin Geko 201 and includes a description of a homemade PC communications cable. It also describes the GPS system.
A problem in probability used as an introduction to simulated solutions by computer programming.
Many people go through life without knowing why 0! = 1.
Differentiate yourself from the majority by reading this note.
Kingpin
Read a review of THE British Chess Magazine
If you are interested in Chess read this review of THE British chess magazine.
Do you understand technical drawings? Could you make one of these?
Did you look on in wonder as Carol Vorderman used to solve the numbers problem?
Here's how you could have beaten her to the solution, or even answer the ones with which she had difficulty.
Click the above title to visit the home of the best British chess magazine.
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