Posts written by Joel Richards
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Outside the office
Posted by Joel Richards on February 17, 2010
Recently some of us from Kyan have been heading to Craggy Island indoor climbing centre after work for a bit of social exertion.
Pictured below, Gav & Phil tackling a couple of the variety of routes of the evening.
As unfortunately there’s no pub at the top of the walls, which could provide a good incentive for completion.We usually end up down the road at “The Drummond”: http://www.thedrummondguildford.co.uk/ for a pie & a pint (if they’re on the menu).
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Mame Arcade Cabinet
Posted by Joel Richards on October 07, 2009
A recent lunchtime project of ours at Kyan has been refurbishing and upgrading an old Arcade Machine.
After finding an old and broken RM Video cabinet on eBay, originally running Football Champ, we removed the old components and put in some new controls attached to a Mini-PAC USB controller. Once the various cosmetic upgrades were finished, we attached the Mini-PAC to the Linux machine running MAME.
More photos can be found in the Arcade Machine Flickr Set.
You can follow @kyanarcade on twitter to see new highscores.
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Vintage digital photography
Posted by Joel Richards on January 25, 2009
I recently bought a canon d2000/kodak dcs520 off ebay, the 3rd model Canon digital SLR, released in 1998.
With just under 2 megapixels, it can’t compete with even the cheapest DSLR nowadays with resolution, but build quality it’s great.
The 350D next to the DCS 520.Dpreview described it: “it’s the Jaguar of the digital photography world where all else are Fords”