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Peter Jennings's reminiscences of developing the Commodore CHESSmate are a hoot: https://benlo.com/microchess/chessmate.htmlFeatures actually getting money out of Jack Tramiel (!!), and a surprise...
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The Hexagonal Grid of Canada is a geospatial grid of 516,322 individual hexagons covering the landmass of Canada -...
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The red wing blackbirds are back at Bluffer's Park. Look forward to pointy bird sneak attacks in the next couple of months. #toronto#birbs
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... also, don't try to site-shame me, Mr Vry Srs Birder, by trying to claim I "drove the birds away". Your frantic bobbing about with your Great Big Lens disturbed a pair of mallards near me, and...
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"No, I've seen lots of lions, they all totally look like that", fibbed the artist. At the Aga Khan Museum
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Someone is posting joke code to the MicroPython discussions help. It's got subprograms that exec a string of boilerplate code to init hardware every time. Looks like extreme copypasta
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My Mac Mini M2Pro seems much happier talking to an HDMI screen via a cheap(ish) USB C hub than via the built-in HDMI port
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something just went bang! on my desk. I shouldn't have anything that could go bang on my desk. My ears are still ringing. There's no smoke or anything. Hmm.
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Very tiny retrocomputer: Lee Hart's 1802 MemberChip Card. It fits into an Altoids Smalls tin. 4 MHz RCA1802, 32 KB ROM, 32 KB SRAM, serial comms. Includes BASIC, monitor and a few other goodiesNot the...
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4000AD: Hi-Fi Arrangement by PROTODOME — https://soundcloud.com/protodome/4000ad-hi-fi-arrangementConsiderably more lush than the 6.5 K arrangement that Blake made for Atmel...
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Someone in the neighbourhood was practising a brass instrument loudly, gleefully and very much had their own idea of tune and timing. It made me happy
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tfw the little bar thingy breaks on your #RaspberryPi camera cable connector...(It's my job to work with these things. But I still break something like 1 in 25 of them)
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Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise – cabel.com — https://cabel.com/2024/02/13/firehouse-five-and-the-cinderella-surprise/ - wonderful #jazz recorded by #Disney staffvia -...
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The fastest #BBCMicro in Vaughan, Ontario ...Running a PiTubeDirect second processor (it's a Raspberry Pi Zero) makes this 2 MHz 6502 machine appear as if it's running at 400 MHz or soIt's also running...
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dammit, Factory Direct is shutting down — https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/factory-direct-liquidation-1.7117485?cmp=rssThey are a usually-crap clearance store who occasionally have good things....
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I may have spent more of today than I'll admit in creating tiny beepy things with #MicroPython that chirp in accordance with Dolbear's “law” of cricket chirp rate vs...
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Walter McCorrisken on Parkinson (1979) — Scotland's worst poet, a real disaster of a poetaster — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbmvhX3868M#poetry#scotland
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A bucket of chirping Raspberry Pi Pico “crickets”. Each of them chirp at a slightly different pitch, and their chirp speed is controlled by the internal temperature sensor according to a formula...
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No actual crickets were harmed in the making of this video. Although they stopped chirping pretty quickly (it was -5 °C outside, and these stop at 10 °C) they soon warmed up and started chirping again...
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