Quadcopter fun

I recently bought a new quadcopter, so today I started a blog about it: quad.ranulf.uk

Sadly, it'll be a bit quiet for a couple of days as after 7 days of practice and getting to grips with it and without serious incident, today I tried the acrobatic mode and 5 seconds later it was a crumpled mess embedded in the soil. Ooops.

Rare Replay announced at E3

So, one of the reasons I've been quite quiet for the last few months (and didn't have time to make a demo for Revision) is that I've been incredibly busy at work... And at last after months of secrecy, the game was announced at E3, called "Rare Replay":

As you can see, it's right up my street and it's been a lot of fun working on this project! :)

The other game we're working on at Rare was also announced, "Sea of Thieves":

Why you should write an emulator

Here's my talk from Revision 2015:

There's also a whole load of other seminars and compos to watch too... :)

Breaking baud video

Breaking Baud... just realised that it's almost a year after the fact and I've still not uploaded a proper capture of the final version of Breaking Baud. So, the best quality capture is still the official livestream... :)

Seminar at Revision 2015

Eeeks, so I realised that I've been too busy to post a single blog entry since Revision last year. Ooops! Anyway, today I presented a seminar at this year's Revision called "Why you should make an emulator". I'll provide a youtube link when available, but for now you can check out the slide deck and just imagine that it's the best presentation you've ever heard! :)

Breaking Baud - 2nd place in the Revision Oldskool demo competition

So, one of the reasons I've not been making much progress recently on the FPGA is that I've spent the last couple of months working on a new tape turbo load system for the Amstrad CPC.

The result is here (warning, don't turn up too loud until you get a feel for the volume of the loading sounds!):

I'm proud to say it came 2nd in the Oldskool competition, stacked up against some very worthy competition. Many thanks to JulijanaM and rexbeng for their beautiful artwork and McKlain for his amazing tunes!

Silicon exposed blog

I've just discovered these awesome posts via Hackaday:

• Getting my feet wet with invasive attacks, part 1: Target recon
• Getting my feet wet with invasive attacks, part 2: The attack