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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

  • Bring back physical buttons!

    At least polling a physical button can be done with electronics that don’t require running code, meaning you can always…

  • Emulation Sucks

    … because it’s so realistic you still have to put up with the same problems you had 30 years ago……

  • Dodgy DOS Development

    From the mind that brought you “let’s try to write games using just pure C” I have a new idea…