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Personal Projects

These are small projects I have done to keep my skills up to date since I became unemployed in 1991. I did these in parallel with writing my book The Lost Inheritance. See also all the projects I did while a corporate employee and through my own business.

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My Ideal Personal Computer

This project is simply to indulge myself by specifying what would be my ultimate dream personal computer - my ideal PC. As well as being a giant wish list of features, it is also a statement of what would be my engineering policy for the design of an ideal PC. This design is of course slanted specifically towards the uses to which I would wish to put it.

My Ideal HF Receiver

This project is simply to indulge myself by specifying what would be my ultimate dream personal short wave (HF) receiver - my ideal RX. As well as being a giant wish list of features, it is also a statement of what would be my engineering policy for the design of an ideal receiver. This design is of course slanted specifically towards the uses to which I would wish to put it. bandscope applet.

Chaos Theory

My fascination with chaos theory was sparked off by an article in the Scientific American in the 1980's. This interest was intensified in 1991 when I read James Gleick's book Chaos. My interest in chaos theory is rooted in my eternal quest to understand nature. I feel that this is the key to understanding how individuals and businesses must change to survive and prosper in the future global society.

Java Applets

To bring myself up to date in 1996 I changed to programming in Java. The following applets illustrate some of the application areas which I have delved into using Java.
  1. Client-side Keyword Search Engine applet
  2. A non-caching, non-proxy Web server †
  3. A bar graph applet which displays web site hits.
  4. An HTML word counter and vocabulary compiler †
  5. An inflation-correcting current account balance monitor.
  6. An inflation-correcting income monitor.
  7. Moving Map Navigator - automatic guidance for aircraft
  8. Waypoint Encounter navigational system development
  9. Personal Link contacts management database
  10. Difference Equation Iterator (Chaos Theory)
  11. Bifurcation Map Generator (Chaos Theory)
  12. Mandelbrot Set Generator (Chaos Theory)
  13. Hénon's Strange Attractor - mathematical mind bender
  14. Sigmoid Function generator (re neural networks)
  15. Lissajous Figures demonstration
  16. Radio Receiver Passband Simulator
  17. Broadcast station search & scan applet for an HF receiver
  18. A Bandscope Applet for use with an HF receiver/scanner

† means Not an applet. Some of these applets were developed using Sun Microsystems' Java Developer's Kit 1.0.1 running on IBM OS/2 Warp4. Others were developed after I upgraded to Versions 1.1.4. and 1.1.6 which I installed on both OS/2 Warp 4 and Windows 95.

C-Programming

Web: HTML XML

Businesss Applications

Navigation Software

Alternative Technology

I have always wanted to apply my analysis, design and programming skills to what are called the Alternative Technologies or Egalitarian Engineering. I have begun to realise this ambition in the form of a project in which I develop a model for the kind of family economy which could form the basic element of the alternative social order outlined in my book The Lost Inheritance. It is known as The Hythe Project.

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