@veryalien

Englishman brexiled to Germany. @ work: Airborne stuff. @ home: Tech/net geek, programmer, interactive fiction, electronics, gadget fan & 4x Dad! Dour/Dim 🏳‍🌈

 Nienburg (Weser), Germany
Joined May 2009
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I ordered 2 @adafruit PiCowbell Adaloggers for Pico from @pimoroni I'm confused! They do NOT have a right-angle reset button that sticks out the end. There's a bad 'inaccessible' reset button mid-board, especially when mounted under a pico as intended!?! No more Captain Resetti?
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Also the pins on the PiCowbell are not reversed as with other pico add-on boards. So, you can't use it the right way up with other pico multi add-on bus boards. You'd have to mount it upside-down and again the reset button is then inaccessible, isn't it?! Very confused!
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Note well: If you are using, for example, an @M5Stack #M5stamp #esp32c3 with the #Arduino #esp32 core then Wire1 doesn't work. And, this time, it's not a bug in the Arduino or M5stack stuff. It doesn't matter which pins you try to use, on a C3 there's only 1 Wire I2C bus.🤦‍♂️🤬 😱
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#OnThisDay in 1980, The Sinclair ZX80 personal computer was launched by Sinclair Research Ltd of Cambridge. It was the first computer (with a Qwerty keyboard) available to the British public that cost less than a hundred pounds! computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-…
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Synchronised wordle result timing on my twitter feed earlier today! @blogmywiki @richardosman
Dear @BBCNews, The following statement regarding flammability of oxygen is completely wrong: Pure oxygen in cylinders which are commonly found in hospitals - and have been heavily relied on to treat Covid-19 patients - is highly flammable. bbc.com/news/world-europe-59…

Ukraine: Three die after memorial candle lit in hospital ward

The candle was lit in memory of a patient who had recently died at the Ukrainian hospital.

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James@baldengineer23 Dec 2021
This USB-to-Arduino power "adapter" on Thingiverse is either brilliant or terrible. I cannot decide which... what do you think? thingiverse.com/thing:516747…
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these "NFTs" - are they in the room with us right now?
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I've successfully received 2 packages within 2 days of ordering! This means that I'm NEVER ordering ANYTHING that is located outside the EU. It's not a Brexit problem. It's not a China problem. It's not an IOSS problem. It's actually a big "EU import" problem. So, get used to it!
Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged ZX81.
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Just wondering if anyone has done anything they'd regard as useful with a @_codebug connect? I was searching through all my stuff and realised that I've never progressed past "hello world". ☹ It wasn't particularly cheap from the kickstarter and hasn't grabbed me so far #codebug
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A note to @pimoroni and all EUers. Not your fault but, even with IOSS so german VAT was charged on my order, I'm off to the post office to pay customs & EU import duty of nearly £17 on a £75 order. It nullifies all the NEEDABIGGERBOAT discounts. I NEEDABIGGERWALLET these days 😬
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I made some very pretty tiny 2040 rainbows on a couple of @pimoroni 5 x 5 RGB LED matrix breakouts. 🌈😎 The @adafruit @CircuitPython is31fl3731 library needed to be cajoled into believing that RGBMatrix5x5 things exist, and eventually the pixels started to glow! 😊 #rp2040
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Am I doing this right?! A 'tiny' little reconfiguration to make a couple of allegedly incompatible @pimoroni things and @CircuitPython work nicely together. 😉 The freebie REPL console on the explorer display was a very nice surprise! 😎 4 pins left for i2c & 2 analogues #RP2040
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Using a bit of stripboard and a micro USB breakout gives me a way to use one of those lovely bright white LED @pimoroni flotilla matrix modules with the #raspberrypipico explorer ⚓
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It turns out that it's not called a @pimoroni Pico HAT Hacker just because it's smol! 😉 #raspberrypipico
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And, before anyone asks, the Micro Dot pHAT has actually got 3v3 from the pico on the 5v pin, GND and the two i2c sda and scl pins, and that's it!
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The @pimoroni disclaimer: Please note that Pico HAT Hacker is not compatible with the Raspberry Pi Pico. Is being a bit too harse. It works to breakout the Pico pins into a HAT layout. Maybe: Please note that Pico HAT Hacker was not designed for use with the Raspberry Pi Pico.
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A bet is a bet. Congratulations to @SteveSpeirs4 and your fellow countrymen x
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SHIM shiminey SHIM shiminey SHIM SHIM sher-ee My Pico is as pretty As pretty can be SHIM shiminey SHIM Shiminey SHIM SHIM sher-oo I've got red, I've got green And I've also got blue Just Shove Hardware In'T Middle And tha' knows what to do! @pimoroni LED SHIM #raspberrypipico
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