myNoise

08 Sept 2025

https://mynoise.net

A wonderful place that dynamically creates background noise. The level of control is incredible. An ambient must.

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Watched F1 The Movie last night. Oh dear, oh dear… If you want to watch a good racing movie, try Rush or Le Mans ‘66.

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A graph of solar output for 24 hours. It is a perfect bell curve. Look At Those Curves 02 May 2025

It’s been an amazing few days for solar

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Cover of The MagPi 145
The MagPi Issue 145

25 Aug 2024

This month I continue my series on building the ultimate private cloud server. Now we have file storage with the help of OpenMediaVault, we now explore how you can access files from anywhere in the...

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Cover of The MagPi 144
The MagPi Issue 144

25 Jul 2024

It's The MagPi issue #144! This is the start of a new series on taking back control of your infrastructure and build you own personal private cloud server. Over the coming months we'll take a deep ...

Raspberry Pi

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Cover of The MagPi 141
The MagPi Issue 141

26 Apr 2024

In the latest MagPi - Issue #141 - I have a chat with Oscar Vermeulen who has just launched his PiDP-10 kit, the latest in a series of Raspberry Pi-based DEC computer recreations. This is his most ...

Raspberry Pi

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Cover of The MagPi 140
The MagPi Issue 140

15 Apr 2024

The latest version of The MagPi is now available in all good booksellers (and probably some bad ones too). In this issue I cover the basics of learning to code. This can often be a intimidating pro...

Raspberry Pi

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Raspberry Pi and NVMe SSD Not Working?

13 Mar 2024

With the arrival of Raspberry Pi 5 it's a brave new world for my favourite little computer. The new shiny PCI-Express header allows super-duper-fast peripherals to bypass the bottleneck that is USB...

Raspberry Pi

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Cover of The MagPi 139
The MagPi Issue 139

29 Feb 2024

The MagPi issue 139 is now available, specially release to coincide with Raspberry Pi's third birthday. (That's right, third, Raspberry Pi is a leap-year baby!)I've been busy in this one. Firstly t...

Raspberry Pi

The Super Bowl command centre. Two men look at a screen. One is displaying the wifi access credentials. Much secure very secrets 16 Feb 2024

Yes. Very secure. Well done you.

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A selection of magazines including the new Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi 3rd Edition
Retro Gaming With Raspberry Pi 3rd Edition

12 Feb 2024

Just out is the third edition of Retro Gaming With Raspberry Pi. This 170+ page tome tell you everything you need to know about bringing the old games back to life. There's so much more than 'downl...

Raspberry Pi Retro

A toilet door sign showing female and mail superheroes. It reads Whatever 09 Feb 2024

Spotted at Smokeworks in Cambridge, UK

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Some AI Slop of a person looking up at a huge textile reel
What's The (Decimal) Point?

05 Feb 2024

A cautionary tale of a bug that wasn’t (yet was) I’m currently working with a team helping an industrial textile manufacturer based in Lyon, France. Part of the job is working with a CSV file (isn’...

Dev

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Joto - The Internet of Whiteboards

19 Jun 2019

A friend was having a bit of a KonMarie moment and decided to remove some of the technology from her life. One item, which she had only just received, was a Joto. This robotic device is a neat spin...

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MagPi #77

22 Dec 2018

In this month's MagPi I do unspeakable things to my front door as part of an ongoing SmartDoor project (more on that soon at this very 'ere blog). Also, I review the beautiful PiDP-11 kit. Availabl...

Raspberry Pi

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MagPi #76

29 Nov 2018

The rather wonderful MagPi issue 76 is out today. In this issue I'm turning up twice. First as part of the SuperGuide with a look at the Raspberry Pi Desktop and how to use it, along with some soft...

Raspberry Pi

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So, we bought a LEAF - Four Years On

29 May 2018

New Toy! New Toy!It has come as a bit of a surprise to me that the most popular post on this ‘ere site has been my original guide to owning an electric car in the UK. Mind you, when I think back to...

EV

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Do You Want To Build a Strandbeest?

25 Apr 2018

A time-lapse showing the construction of Just Add Sharks‘ Mini Strandbeest kit which I picked up at EMF Camp 2016. It’s a great kit and took about 90 minutes to put together.And here’s the result (...

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The Great Digital Race (or ‘A 15-second Fib’)

20 Feb 2018

Connie 1, WITCH 0You can keep your Winter Olympics with all it’s competitive falling and sliding. The real action was last Saturday at The National Museum of Computing where you could witness the i...

TNMoC

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Raspberry Pi + iPad Screen + iCade = Bartop

05 Dec 2017

WAKKA WAKKA WAKKAWay back when, I bought an iCade. This bartop-style arcade machine was actually a very pretty bluetooth controller. Simply slot your first-generation iPad into the ‘screen’ and pai...

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