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Using a HD44780 LCD display with MicroPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico
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OpenOrb - a curated RSS and Atom feed search engine
17 Apr 2024 |
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Two weeks ago, I built a search engine which only searches over a list of RSS feeds you expressedly give it. If you regularly read ten blogs, you can add those ten to the engine, and then search for stuff in them. I called it OpenOrb↗ - if you click on that link, you’ll be able to use my own instance. RSS feed readers can usually do this sort of...
Photos - North Finchley, London
30 Jan 2024 |
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WS2812 fairy lights with ESPHome and the Pimoroni Plasma Stick
14 Apr 2023 |
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Last month I picked up the Pimoroni Plasma Stick↗, which is essentially an RP2040-powered Raspberry Pi Pico bolted onto a terminal block and a Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector, to make it easier to connect WS2812/NeoPixel-style individually addressable RGB(W) LED light strips. That’s a lot of terminology! Once the Plasma Stick arrived in the mail, I...
Best-fit D&D damage to dice calculator
2 Feb 2023 |
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Deploying an Astro site through SourceHut
31 Jan 2023 |
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Today I decided to finally try out Astro↗, a Javascript framework for building websites, by trialling it on my homepage. Suffice to say I liked it so much, and it was so easy to get to grips with, that this site is now built using Astro.1 I was previously less interested in Astro because I thought it was mostly a tool for building websites using...