I’ve been working on a little project for the M5Stack Cardputer Adv, and it’s reached the point where I’m happy to make it publicly available.
It’s called M5Knife, and the idea is straightforward: turn the Cardputer into a useful, self-contained collection of utilities, rather than dedicating it to one particular job.
Think of it as a sort of digital Swiss Army knife. Hence the name.
Continue reading M5Knife – A Pocket Toolkit for the M5Stack Cardputer Adv
I’ve been working on a small retro-computing project: turning the M5Stack Cardputer Adv into a genuinely usable standalone CP/M computer.
So, I recently bought an old 1980s Ford Sierra 2.3l Ghia to restore.
But not that one, as it is obviously an AI generated image.
Ok, it might seem a little frivolous, considering that I’m currently “Of No Fixed Abode” to be mucking about in a game building a house, but so be it.
Continue reading World of Warcraft Player Housing – First Thoughts
My idiot project to map all the pubs in the UK, not by just adding pubs from Brewery lists, but by getting actual real people to go and visit them.
Nearly 1000 added so far, by a small team of dedicated drinkers.
There is a lot of shit on t’internet these days about Cloud Seeding, Chemtrails, and more recently Cloud Busting.
I really though that Cloud Busting was a Kate Bush song.
I’ve missed having a tablet, ever since mine was destroyed in the “Great 2024/2025 Roof Loss and Massive Flood” debarcle. So I’ve bought another one.
The node is back up after a year offline! At a different location, as I’m “between homes” right now.
Node 57080 is my Allstarlink Lego Box Pi3B node, built, configured and sold to me by eBay user Willywoe. It allows me to connect to Hubnet and Echolink over t’internet from a small, low power 70cm band Amateur Radio walkie-talkie (Baofeng BF-88), if I’m within 50 metres of the house.
Seen here with ace technician Alasdair “Goggles” McTavish.
I originally wrote this about 20 years ago, before I even bothered with a website. But as the pubs will be open again soon, it need reiterating.
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