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I'm sad to announce that I'm shutting down the DIY MiniITX laptop project. At least, for now.

The new, slightly larger LCD panel has arrived, as has a PCIe riser plus mounting frame.

Daily journalling is a key part of how I keep my projects moving. Without it I'd be wasting time every day trying to remember what I was up to, and...

I recently had trouble with my laptop. The machine became almost unusable while Windows 10 was downloading updates. So, I decided to add more RAM and a faster SSD hard-drive.

Lately I've received an increase in queries about the DIY Mini-ITX laptop project that I was working on. Some assume that the project is dead. It's not; it's just sleeping.

Last month I gave people a sneak peek at my DIY laptop project at AmiWest (and youtube).

It's taken a while and several iterations, but I've finally got a a full HD (1920x1080) LCD panel and controller that I'm happy with.

Alan Kay said, "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." Not sure that I agree, but I'm definitely a software engineer who likes to make...

Where to begin? There's a new Altera based development kit (dev-kit) sitting on my desk,. and I've never used an Altera FPGA before. There's a lot to learn.

This blog post was supposed to get the previous tutorial's UART running on real hardware. However, my plans were derailed swiftly starting with a glitch.