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My career began in electronics & now it's in IT. I talk nonsense here about my hobby stuff: Electronics, STEM, IoT, Meshtastic, Vintage 8-bit computers. My dog is called Holly & she's much cuter than me | West Sussex, UK | Views are my own humble opinions.
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Supermarket "Butcher's Choice" sausages. Conclusive proof that people can make bad choices.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Don't you ever wonder about the round-vehicle awareness and general skill level of drivers who flash to let you out of parking spaces, to turn right (UK) or leave a side road when there aren't any vehicles behind them?! </Paranoia>

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I have just re-setup some mail accts in Outlook for someone from details in a Word doc. Copy the p/w...Copilot jumps up to 'correct' unusual caps. FFS No! Bring the page into Notepad...and Copilot is there too. This took much longer that it needed. I'm recovering on my Linux-based desktop now.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Fed up with boring black timer chips on your PCBs or breadboards?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I've just made a clever new multi-clause filter (rule) in #Betterbird to tidy cron job and logwatch emails. I've just managed to move ALL inbox messages over 5 days old into a subfolder. I didn't want to do that! I'll move it all back when the filter completes. Yes, I have fixed the filter.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I finally got around to hooking a BBC Micro:bit to a #Meshtastic node and sending and receiving messages. Here's the hookup via an intermediate board with some protection resistors to ensure things don't get smokey if I cross-wire Rx and Tx.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Is it me or are fibreglass pencils quite expensive for what they are - even from the usual Far-East places.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Power might be back in the Nick of time...or they are toying with us...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

You see that? That is the view of remote site shutdown inevitability. Unplanned outage. Power has been off for 1hr (Graph uses UTC). Not due back on for another 3.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Just fixed an issue with an ESP8266-based smart switch running Tasmota. It began to randomly reset to factory defaults & I thought its flash memory was dying. Turns out the manual on/off button is faulty & randomly stays 'pressed' for >40 secs & this triggers a config reset. Fix = replace button.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Is anyone hereabouts using the ZXPicoMD ZX Spectrum Microdrive hardware emulator? Any comments on its general behaviour as a read-writeable microdrive? Any suggested alternatives for something on which to save / load programs being developed on the ZX Spectrum? github.com/TomDDG/ZXPic...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Wondering if anyone out there has a pdf or scanned copy of Practical Computing - October 1987 please? I can't find a copy anywhere. 🤔

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone here running #Meshtastic on the Seeed Xiao NRF kit with a working generic NEO-6 or -7 GPS module attached. My coding-fu has not managed to tweak the pin definitions to make this work. Ta!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments