So you bought a Raspberry Pico, hoping to upgrade your Arduino workflow to 32 bit, but you ran into problems almost immediately? Join the club… When I tried to upload a simple sketch, I got an error message “Unable to build drive list”. The cause of this is simple, but fairly deeply rooted. Short answer: … [Read more…]
As a photographer, techie, movie buff, and (infrequently) gamer, I am a data-hog. As much as I love SSD’s, to date, they have been too cost–prohibitive to justify for many of my uses. With 32TB of spinning rust on my desk alone, I simply couldn’t justify it — until recently. Over the lock-down periods I … [Read more…]
So, I recently went all in on Brizy as my wordpress editing platform for 2021+. Time will tell whether it will be a better choice than investing in the Gutenburg ecosystem, or if I should have gone Oxygen, or Elementor… but regardless. There’s a LOT I really like about Brizy so far. Having come from … [Read more…]
When you think Bosch, what do you think? For me, Bosch was always a boring name — the name emblasoned on our dishwasher while I was growing up. Hardly exciting or ground-breaking. Over time however, Bosch has entered new markets and categories, and today ‘boring’ is far from how I would describe them. A major … [Read more…]
A few months ago I bought a bluetooth mouse from Kmart for some ridiculously cheap price. Well, no, not that type, this type: This mouse has 4 driven wheels on the bottom, and drives them “tank style” in two pairs. Yes, this is a 4WD mouse… 🙄 Since the cat didn’t appear to take much … [Read more…]
Another late night of hacking… and something cool emerges. Three years ago I tried to tinker with the YN360 light wand. In the last few years since then, Web Bluetooth support has matured, and Web Bluetooth is now well supported in Google Chrome. What this means is, that we can create a web-based remote control … [Read more…]
I’ve moved all my content on the various pain relief patches over to a new separate site. Pain Relief Patch Reviews: Kailo Signal Pain Relief nCap TaoPatch In preparation for a pain-less (haha) return to tech geek-ery and philosophical ponderings in 2021. 🙂
In the last year I’ve successfully switched to a PC for work and home. I felt that this was not by choice – an outcome I’ve ranted about before. I’m revisiting this, as I saw a recent video (embedded below – skip to 2:38) where I think Dave2D nailed this issue, giving a clear explanation … [Read more…]
I saw a tweet today that reminded me of a quick tale from a few years ago, from before my blog existed. I’d like to think this post qualifies me as a “real hacker”™. Dear infosec Twitter, I'm looking for the crappiest IoT device I can buy on Amazon or anywhere in the EU. Something … [Read more…]
After replacing some Palm PDA internal batteries, I have a few success stories so far: