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Latest Videos
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Hacking IoT Smart Plugs
Let’s make the Internet of Things a bit more useful, and less like The Internet of Turd by hacking some smart plugs so they no longer phone home to China.
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BBC BASIC in RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi is really cool
Your Raspberry Pi can do more than emulate games consoles or be a really slow Linux desktop. Come into the alternate mirror universe where Raspberry Pis run more than Linux.
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£3000 Mobile Phone Motorola 8500x
Let’s look at one of the world’s first mobile phones – the Motorola 8500x – released in the mid 1980s for £3,000.
Recent Posts
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Custom HomeAssistant display using openHASP
Continue reading: Custom HomeAssistant display using openHASPIt’s my opinion that if you’re going to fill your home with smart devices, they need to be easy to control and monitor. Having to pull a phone out a…
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Agon Light Graphics Tests
Continue reading: Agon Light Graphics TestsIt’s the Easter holidays and I’ve got two weeks off work. Amongst highly exciting things like weeding the garden and waiting for a new washing machine to be delivered, I’m…
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Learning how to draw things on the Agon Light
Continue reading: Learning how to draw things on the Agon LightI’ve been having a bit of a play around with my Agon Light, trying to come up with some ideas for a future video. I’ve discovered it has quite a…
Blog Posts
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Sonoff Hacking to install Tasmota
I bought some of those Sonoff BASIC smart switches off Amazon and flashed them with Tasmota. It’s a pretty painless…
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I Just Broke WordPress…
OK that was pretty strange. I wrote a blog post, hit submit and the front page of my WordPress installation…
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Figuring out a better video production workflow
This is where I figure out a simpler way to make my videos, and it seems really obvious when I…