The copy of Wireless World containing the hardware design for what would become Digithurst’s MicroEye along with driving software written in Z80 assembler for the Research machines 380Z
Meanwhile I was trying to raise funding and receiving unecceptable offers from people burned by the recent collapse of Cambridge high tech companies.
Instead the local unemployment office became our angel investor
The Smart Arm Robot we initially envisaged using with the Digithurst robot vision system
Another piece of equipment we couldn’t afford; A 6809 development system from Sterling Microcomputers
Juggling figures while interfacing Adrian March’s GE camera to a Commodore PET
Translating edge detection and object recognition algorithms
Yet another hybrid technical and financial plan
Digithurst’s first PCB acetate; unfortunately not good enough for our local printed circuit board manufacturer, Trulon
The growing realisation that the GE camera was too expensive
Minutes of an early management meeting at which we decided on what stationary we could afford to have printed
Against all the odds we started making money