Archive for August, 2009

Silicon Sparrow Incorporated

Posted by Adam on August 26th, 2009 under Business • No Comments

I’m official. I just received my business name registration in the post. Silicon Sparrow is now a registered business in New South Wales, ABN number 83-841-478-358. Now all I need is some more products and more customers…
By the way, do you like my new little bird logo at the top there, it was designed by [...]

Parallel Port Tester in Python

Posted by Adam on August 11th, 2009 under Technology • 1 Comment

To test some equipment which was controlled by the printer port on my PC, I wrote a simple test app. This is allows you to control the state of the data bits and control bits and also see the state of the status bits. It’s not very pretty and only does SPP port functions because [...]

Welcome to the Silicon Sparrow Blog

Posted by Adam on August 3rd, 2009 under Business • No Comments

Hello and welcome to my new corporate identity. This site is the centre of my current venture to establish myself as an independent designer of electronic and software products. At the moment, I only have one product, the Serial Bit Rate Converter which is fairly niche but I am working on more stuff. I’ll post [...]