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by eggfriedrice 6d ago
This is great! I hope it was vibe coded
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by eggfriedrice 16d ago
Lovely job, I like the "here's where I've got to so far" style. This gives people enough to work from and make a hand-wired version while he's waiting for boards to come back. Even if he runs out of time to do anyth
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by eggfriedrice 9mo ago
This was a really interesting read! Back in the day a friend and I started a company and Kickstartered a RPi add-on. The kickstarter campaign failed, but we ended up building anyway after one of the silicon manufacturers spotted the project
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by eggfriedrice 10mo ago
Classy job!
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by eggfriedrice 1y ago
I recall at the Torness tour that the guide, who's a local, remembered at public the planning meetings that they were told the building wouldn't really be visible from the A1! At least they painted it grey to match the sky...
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by eggfriedrice 2y ago
This is nice, apart from a quick play when they were new I've never really looked at CF Workers and KV again. This made me go and have a look at the docs and find that it's actually looks quite useful. I didn't know they&#x27
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by eggfriedrice 2y ago
Today I learned about <hgroup>!
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by eggfriedrice 2y ago
I particularly like how the UK phone number examples are not written how we would write them in the UK, which I guess underlines the point.
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by eggfriedrice 2y ago
I'm not sure I understood much except the photo of the cake
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by eggfriedrice 3y ago
It's a great book, my daughter loves it. I was pretty chuffed when she figured out the AND gate needs both buttons pressed at once. I'm not entirely sure she's sussed XOR yet though.
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by eggfriedrice 3y ago
I've also lasered lots of things from Inkscape drawings. I've always found it easier to use than proper CAD but still get good results. I don't remember this much, but a previous me wrote a guide for lasering using Inkscape f
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by eggfriedrice 3y ago
There is essentially no use of LoRaWAN at 433MHz in Europe, this would have been at 868
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by eggfriedrice 3y ago
I do a lot with LoRaWAN, and I like the simplicity of its approach for class A devices, which is to wake up and transmit and then listen for a reply in two defined time windows. These are shortly after the transmission, so clock drift is le
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by eggfriedrice 3y ago
OMG, I had no idea Tim Hunkin was churning out YouTube videos these days! I was exactly the right age to appreciate the Secret Life of Machines, and it looks like I have several hours of quality stuff to watch there.
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by eggfriedrice 4y ago
Yup, it's great. I used it to shuffle stuff from s3 into Dropbox and it was just the right tool for the job.
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by eggfriedrice 4y ago
Back in the day I managed a small office server, backing up via a particularly slow ADSL line. It took about a week to do the initial sync, so I just let it run and in the meantime backed up to an external disk every couple of days. Once it
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by eggfriedrice 4y ago
There's some nice fake buildings in Edinburgh, Scotland There's a fake "house" at the end of my street. It's actually a telephone exchange: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9050155,-3.2075701,3
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by eggfriedrice 5y ago
I went on a tour round Torness a couple of years ago and it's a fantastic engineering marvel to mosey around. A few things stand out, like the old-tech ring binders and Windows 95 screensavers on CRTs. The safety focus was clear. Nothi
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by eggfriedrice 5y ago
I like the photo showing the blades labelled A, B and C. Makes it look like IKEA-style assembly, but with a massive Allen key.
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by eggfriedrice 5y ago
I stand corrected!
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by eggfriedrice 5y ago
Nice to see that it's not just another VS Code spin off. They seem to be finding a nice middle ground between the very basic Arduino 1 IDE, and an over-complicated all-in IDE. Plus, debugging, woo!
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by eggfriedrice 6y ago
What I like most about this is that the site didn't fall over from the HN hug of death. I assume it must be their massively scalable Kubernetes + NoSQL DB + CDN infrastructure.
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by eggfriedrice 6y ago
Nice Scotland simulator!
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by eggfriedrice 6y ago
This is really cool. It's something I find hard to document at the moment so I'll try this out with my next project.
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by eggfriedrice 7y ago
Awesome! It's great to see that the project was saved from bankruptcy. I was really gutted at the thought it would get shelved, especially as it was so far along. They've done a whole lot of educational work with the project to ge
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by eggfriedrice 7y ago
When this last came up on HN, the Scottish Government was in the process of rolling this out. It seems to have happened and baby boxes are now given to all newborns: https://www.parentclub.scot/baby-box
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by eggfriedrice 7y ago
It can take a huge amount of time, but actually, that bit I won't outsource yet. We do it all in house. A friend of mine with a similar business in a different field tried outsourcing that a few years ago and it didn't work well,
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by eggfriedrice 7y ago
https://connectedthings.store/gb/ We don't have the Things Node yet, but we do have the Things Uno (EU) which is a really handy dev board for experiments.
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by eggfriedrice 7y ago
I run a small online store, we focus on a particular niche tech, LoRaWAN. It's specific enough (at the moment) that there aren't many other folk in this area. We started out with Shopify, but that's actually really limited in
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by eggfriedrice 7y ago
>In the UK. It costs £0 to see the doctor and for the inhaler now is £8.80. In Scotland prescriptions are "free", i.e., I don't pay anything for my inhalers, or anything else prescribed by my doctor. This costs the Scottis

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