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The Times Higher Education. Undoubtedly the newspaper of my profession. And yet I’m now feeling rather unwelcome there. Why? Well as regular readers (!) will have noticed, I’ve recently joined Twitter. Looking around at suitable people to follow, I found … Continue reading →

We were discussing the future of the first-year digital electronics module here recently. We’ve just built some digital logic boards that allow students to program a CPLD on the board to produce a variety of dice, traffic light controllers, slot-machine … Continue reading →

There is one thing new – regular readers (!) will notice a new “Tweet” button in the right-hand margin. Perhaps I should have a different one on each page? I must investigate twitter plugins for wordpress at some stage. I’m … Continue reading →

I’ve not posted much recently, but now the summer is here my workload eases off a bit, and I can find a little more time for this site. I have still been writing software, but a lot of it hasn’t … Continue reading →

Haven’t posted for a long time, and there have been no new demos for quite a while either. Why? Well, mostly because I’ve been in maintenance mode. I re-wrote some of the lab scripts for our first-year students to use … Continue reading →

The demo for August is now on the site: it does simple queueing systems. I’m teaching this stuff again next year, so I though this would be useful. It’s not entirely new this one, it’s a re-write of a demo … Continue reading →

I just got hacked. Maybe I’m a little naive, but I couldn’t believe anyone would bother to hack this site. And yet they did. I’ve restored it as best I can, and I think it should be all back up … Continue reading →

Silverlight 4 can access the clipboard. That’s extremely useful, since it means there’s an easy way for these demos to load and save things: just copy any relevant information to/from the clipboard. I spent some time over the weekend adding … Continue reading →

I was talking to someone about my demos the other day, and he mentioned that he’d tried to find a simple matrix inversion routine in C# on the web, and not found one he could easily understand. So, for what … Continue reading →

This month’s new demo is one to illustrate Bode Plots. Not a very complicated one, but my programming time has been dedicated to other tasks recently – most notably some way to automate and speed up getting feedback to students … Continue reading →