After leaving Windows, I thought I’d need to keep a copy around as a VM for edge cases, like programming PICs. In fact I was resigned to not being able to continue PIC development. Then I discovered the difficulty the Pico has with some of my older hardware and I […]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been messing about with options for getting Spot X running again. My focus has been trying to use a Raspberry Pi Pico as the controller but this has been a tedious process. Principally it comes down to 2 things: Voltage and Tooling. First the […]

I knew what I wanted the light box software to do It quickly became apparent that I’d need multiple threads, using both cores of the Pico to achieve my design brief. I was concerned that I’d have to go back and learn to use C for this project, because I’d […]

I tried making marmalade again. Mum gave me a bag of lemons, even though I already had a pile, so I decided to have another go. I’d already been to the shops to buy some jars, so that was sorted. This time I bought a bag of white sugar and […]

I had some company in the garden today, and not the usual suspect. I was working down near the well, cleaning up the area because it was a lot of a mess. I had trimmed back the wattles and mown around them and was cleaning out all the grass after […]

On Thursday I had to do some work on the lemon tree at work and ended up with a bucket and a half of lemons. So I thought I would make marmalade. I didn’t realise how few lemons you needed. But that’s okay. I will think of something else. The […]

I now had to get the Steam library from Windows to Linux. As I mentioned, there is a simple way. I could have transferred the game files to the large storage drive in CSIRAC where I already had Fallout 76 and um, Bioshock Infinite?? Anyway I could have done that […]