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Back to the SuperConnector after moving to a new phone and forgetting that would break it. And that was a great time to look at fixing some very irritating issues… which SwiftUI made ridiculously easy.

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What do you get when you take the taste of the 80s and the Z80s and mix it with a dash of modern vibes? You get the MicroBeast; retro, but not…

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Seeking an IDE. Working with MicroPython recently made me realise now, more than ever, how poorly the small board Python community is with tooling. The apparent choice of Mu editor and Thonny doesn’t come out as a great choices. That’s mainly, for me at least, because they talk to the boards ok, but the editing experience is dismal. Oddly selected keystrokes, atypical interactions, iffy window handling, very little in the way of useful syntax highlighting, almost no code navigation outside a file….

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May Be A Circle May comes around and I realise my intention to post regularly has been well, this is an embarassed look to the side. So what’s been going on in the various circles of development hell…. DoNotDisturb So the dnd project at add do not disturb (dnd) lights at the door to the office with a remote switch was both completed and dismantled. The project scope expanded to include a CO2, Temperature, and Humidity sensor which would pump stats into the MQTT broker while it also managed the lights.

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I was going through the drawers in the lab when I happened across a Kim Uno that I’d put together a long time ago. It’s an Arduino Nano emulating the 6502 at the heart of the Kim-1, one of the classic early microprocessor machines from the late 70s. The board is super bare bones, and with the arrival of a Flashforge Adventurer 3 it was time to get exercising the new printer to make the Kim Uno more finished and all boxed up.

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