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This is the tiny corner of the World Wide Web dedicated to the thoughts and insanities of Mikkel Holm Olsen, also known as Spaceman Spiff. If you want to know a little more about who I am, you can take a peek at my personal page.
As these pages will reveal, some of my major interests and hobbies are related to computers and electronics. Although there is a lot of ongoing development in these areas, and I struggle to keep updated on as many parts as possible, I also have a sweet spot for vintage computers and electronics. Concerning vintage computers, I am particularly interested in old video games and coin-op arcade machines.
Being involved with computers since the age of 9, I started out as many others, mainly just using computers, whether it was for doing papers for school, or playing games. I became interested in programming, starting with simple BASIC-programs, mostly typed off different books, and perhaps enhanced or extended in some way. Since then I did a lot of programming in Pascal and a bit of assembler.
In 1998 I started using Linux as my primary desktop OS, and I taught myself C-programming by writing a device driver for controlling a HD44780-based LCD from Linux. Along the way I also got exposed to Bash scripting, Perl and Python.
Through my studies, I got interested in microcontrollers, in particular Atmel AVR, and I have developed various small projects using these controllers, programming in both C and assembler. I have also worked with various other micro controllers (e.g. ARM based). I consider myself an embedded software developer, but I have knowledge of a vast array of system development, from schematics design and PCB layout to programming.
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