I get asked for recommendations for practice soldering kits.
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A One Handed Accessible Keyboard, Inspired by FrogPad
A couple of years ago, I was in an incident that reduced the strength in my left shoulder. I’ve been waiting for an operation to restore the function to that shoulder, but we were warned the post-operative recovery period would be several months. So I started looking for keyboard options...
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The Rough and Ready Guide To Getting Your RC2014 Pro Online
Back in t’day (drops 20p in t’swear jar), before the advent of the Internet as we know it in its current form, computers talked to each other using BBS software and terminal programs. You dialled the remote machine, the modem on the other side would pick up and a conversation...
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RC2014 Pro, Bowie, and a Merry Christmas
I’d like you to meet “Bowie”, our newest RC2014, with a focus on “Sound and Vision”.
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The Sidecar for Psion - A PPP Modem and Linux Terminal for RS232 devices
RS232 and Null Modem HAT for the Pi Zero
Sponsored Post: - PCBWay (pronounced PCBWaaaaaaaayyyyyy), reached out and asked if I had any 3d printing projects
they could help with. I said no, but I did have an electronics project I needed PCBs for. They kindly sponsored the first
iteration of PCBs for this project.
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TinyCPM - CP/M on a Tiny 2040
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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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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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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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Repairing My Family Spectrum
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Getting Markdown Out of the Psion
The Psion 5MX makes a great little portable writing tool, but getting files off takes a little more effort.
The word processor handles plain text and it’s own proprietary binary format. Plain text is fine,
but I’d like to do something with the formatted content.
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Psion 5MX - Oh, I've been waiting for this...
I have coveted (verily coveted), a Psion since my school days. A few friends had them, I had a Palm IIIe. And whilst I got a lot of mileage out of my Palm over the years (it got me through university), the potential productivity of the Psion 5...
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Pomodoro Clock
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Pectoral Cross
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Making a Nightlight - Lessons Learned
This project had a simple premise - make a touch-controlled night-light.
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Plywood Shelving, An Afternoon of Wood
Sometimes, a project is just about pure functionality. We live in a small house, and space is at a premium. The cupboard at the top of our stairs used to contain a boiler, but was removed before we moved in and replaced with a combi-boiler in the kitchen. The previous...
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Yorkshire 2.0
Yorkshire 2.0 Hoodie.
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Salvaged Solder Fume Fan
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NodeMCU Development Board Esp8266
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Cat and I Made it to Maker Faire
Decade Resistance Box
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Power Supply Go Boom
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Capacitive Sensing Through Moderately Thick Glass
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Sparkfun Benchtop Power Supply
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Prototyping the Extension Lights PCB
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Little Invader
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USBAsp Too Fast? Slow it down
If your USBasp has problems communicating, it may be due to too fast USB speeds. Try this in your avrdude config files for an alternative:
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AtTiny84 Simon
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no monitor no keyboard no problem raspberry
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Sort of Getting the Pi
I’m running tech and DT for the Manchester Cadet next weekend.
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I'm Kian Ryan
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