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Latest Videos

  • Hacking IoT Smart Plugs

    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.

  • BBC BASIC in RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi is really cool

    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.

  • £3000 Mobile Phone Motorola 8500x

    £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.


Blog Posts

  • Maximising the fun in Linux

    Or in other words, I ditch NixOS because it’s awkward and weird, and I install Arch because it’s awkward and…

  • Making Computers Fun Again

    It’s nearly midnight, I’m supposed to be going to sleep but downstairs my Surface Pro 7+ is busy compiling a…

  • Well crap, my PC died

    Due to the untimely demise of my main PC, and it being the time of year where I have to…