Ceefax

  • Interactive Viewer

    Interactive Viewer

    Fully interactive Ceefax experience

  • Pages From Ceefax

    TV showing Ceefax

    View live Pages from Ceefax as shown on BBC2 overnight

  • In The News

    Newspaper story on Ceefax re-creation

    News stories featuring Ceefax

  • History

    In vision teletext decoder prototype

    How this re-creation came to exist

Stuff I Made

  • Subrack Teletext Inserters

    Two aluminium-fronted subrack modules. They each have four LEDs labelled 'power', 'act', 'sync' and 'text', a USB port, and an ethernet port.

    Two subrack-mounted teletext inserter modules

  • Teletext Display Units

    Two black plastic 19 inch units. They are marked 'NMS Technologies', with LED indicators and a thumbwheel selector switch on the front.

    Teletext generator and monitor, plus a standalone decoder

  • DIY Gateway Router

    19 inch equipment rack containing an aluminium router. It has six ethernet ports, and is marked with a sticker that says 'NMS Gateway' and some IP addresses.

    Debian based router with built in UPS

  • Test Pattern Generator

    Palm-sized aluminium box with black end-caps. The front panel has a rotary switch with positions for video patterns, and two switches to control power and audio.

    Basic test pattern generator for TV repairs

  • Bench Power Supply

    Large beige plastic box bearing three pairs of red and black binding posts, an LED voltmeter and ammeter, and a colour LCD module.

    High power bench power supply

Projects

  • Teletext Monitor Input Mod

    A blue fronted 19 inch rack mounted unit. Marked MRG Sytems, it has five lights on the front and five BNC sockets, two DSUB sockets and a number of hex switches on the back.

    Adding a CVBS input to an MRG Systems DTP900 Subtitle Monitor

  • Connecting the Garage

    A bunch of cables lie on the ground, ready to be pulled through a duct.

    Adventures with underground cables and fibre optics

  • Quartz Video Router

    Three beige coloured metal 19 inch boxes. They each are marked 'Quartz' and have a power LED. One is marked with a red 'X'.

    Modifying a Quartz Video router for web control

  • Fixing a NICAM Coder

    A 19 inch box with an aluminium front panel and the top cover removed, revealing two long circuit boards and a chassis power supply.

    Bringing life to a Factum Radioscape NC200A NICAM-728 Encoder