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Designing 3D Printed Sewable Badges

Installing CircuitPython on a Freenove ESP32-S3-WROOM CAM Board

Hacking an IKEA HÖVOLM into a Helmet Rack

Admitting Defeat

Back 2 Basics - NMOS Switch

Reverse Engineering a Broken Night Light - Part 1 - Tear Down

Trying out the ice4pi from Lightside Instruments

Back 2 Basics - Op-Amp Buffer

Building the Kilnettle Tape Dispenser

Migrating my Mastodon server to Masto.host

Back 2 Basics - R-2R Ladder DAC

I presented at the 2025 Open Hardware Summit

I'm presenting at the 2025 Open Hardware Summit

Selling Products on Tindie

VanSpoof - Prototype 2 - Shrunken PCBs

Stop the WANPTEK/NANKADF power supply's beeps

Low Tech Prototyping

GNU Terry Pratchett

VanSpoof – A-Muntzing We Will Go

VanSpoof - Prototype 2 - Echo Firmware

VanSpoof - Prototype 1 - Firmware

VanSpoof - Prototype 1 - Hardware

Reverse Engineering a VanMoof e-shifter – Part 2 – Decoding the Signals

Reverse Engineering a VanMoof e-shifter – Part 1 – Connectors and Connections

Introducing Spy! Break! Inject!

Make Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches run almost silently

Leaving WordPress for Zola

Debian Packaging from First Principles – Part 2 – Dependencies

Connecting to Serial Ports with Windows Terminal

Poison the WeLLMs

aa-sms – Send messages from Rust with Andrews & Arnold’s SMS API

#NewMusicMonday – Kiasmos & Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Debian Packaging from First Principles – Part 1 – Simple .deb

Recover a single drive from an abandoned RAID 1 mirrored pair

#NewMusicMonday – Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard & Slomatics

STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 3 – HAL and Blinky

STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 2 – Development and Debug Toolchain

#NewMusicMonday – Cheap Dirty Horse, The Masochists and a (dis)honourable mention

STM32 to Blinky with Rust – Part 1 – Hardware – STM32F407G-DISC1

#NewMusicMonday – Alkanes, Broadsea & PaperSailor

Data loss: A blind-spot in my backup strategy

Stacking Loyalty Schemes for Extra Discounts

What is Gregg Wallace doing?

The Greg or Ian Calendar

Bringing an Apple AirTag Back to Life

SQLite Adventure

Bringing a VanMoof X3 or S3 Back to Life – Part 2 – Battery Pack

Bringing a VanMoof X3 or S3 Back to Life – Part 1 – Smart Cartridge

Radxa Rock 5B as a Raspberry Pi replacement?

Installing OpenWrt on a Unifi AP AC Lite in 2023

Weeknotes for 9th December 2019 – 15th December 2019

Weeknotes for 2nd December 2019 – 8th December 2019

Weeknotes for 25th November 2019 – 1st December 2019

Weeknotes for 18th November 2019 – 24th November 2019

Missing Maps #mapathon @ NatureScot

Personal Weather Forecast

Trump is Big Boss

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