TinyCPM - CP/M on a Tiny 2040
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Tetris, Two Books, Five Blocks
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From Twitter to Mastodon, on your Jekyll Home Page
I’ve been a member of the bird site since 2007. I have sent 39 thousand tweets, to a tiny audience of under 1000 followers and folow-ees (it’s a word now). My first tweet was sent from a dressing gown, on a Saturday, after opening an account, trying to stitch Twitter,...
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A Dark Room You Can Take With You, a Pi Pico and EInk
The Dark Room is the property of John Robertson. This is a fan project, and a good excuse to build some hardware. John Robertson has in no way endorsed this project, or been approached for rights use. All rights to the Dark Room remain with John Robertson. Now that bit...
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Connecting a Psion 5MX to a Raspberry Pi with Serial
I really like my Psion. Nice keyboard, black and white, works great in sunlight. Runs for forever off a few double AA batteries. I also really like The Raspberry Pi Zero. A little full-fat Linux machine, smaller than a credit card that can run quite happily on battery power. I...
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Electromagnetic Field 2022 and a Weather App for Your TiDAL
We are just back from Electromagnetic Field 2022 held at Eastnor, UK. Whilst trying to avoid sounding like a Youtube mid-roll ad, Electromagnetic Field is a camping festival for people who like to tinker, whatever their form of tinkering. In practical terms, during the day there’s talks and workshops: electronics,...
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Making Changes To Our Little Prusa Mini
Back in the early days of the awfulness somewhere in early 2020, we put the pennies down for a Prusa Mini and waited. Why the Mini? Space. Back in our previous house we really didn’t have a lot of space, and the Mini was a nice size that could live...
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Twitch Authentication With Python
I’m writing a Twitch bot on a Raspberry Pi with Python 3. The bot uses the Twitch IRC interface interface to read and send and messages. To communicate with any of Twitches APIs, including the IRC interface, an access token is required from their OAuth server. The Twitch API is...
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An AtTiny85 and WS2812B Pirate Chest with Recycled PLA
I was sent a sample of recycled PLA from 3D Tomorrow. They intentionally sent no print settings, looking to get feedback. They didn’t send a lot, but enough to make a couple of small models. The material was uncoloured and translucent. I didn’t know where this project was going, but...
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Serial and Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL)
Windows Subsystem for Linux provides an abstraction layer to allow the execution of Linux distributions directly on Windows. WSL comes in two flavours: WSL1 is a set of interfacing libraries where WSL2 uses Hyper-V, and works alongside a VM. Unfortunately, the newer WSL2 does not support serial devices, which means...
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