Mar 24, 2019

Mar 24, 2019
The PyPortal Lands

So Adafruit’s latest is the PyPortal, an Atmel-SAMD51-powered, Python-running board with a touchable LCD display, an ESP32 for WiFi and BT, and a form factor which makes it easy to mount. I got mine with the Adabox subscription and it came with an acrylic enclosure and a tube you could fill with pennies (UK pennies work) to weight down the enclosure which has a curve in the back where it can sit.

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Mar 15, 2019

Mar 15, 2019
Codepope’s Development Hell and the rattling of tin cans and string

Yes, I know, string doesn’t rattle but if you attach enough tin cans to it, it does. That’s a bit like programming. Anyway, welcome to Codepope’s Development Hell. This is my new, personal site, replacing codescaling.net, and looking to be more about the stuff I do. Part of this is also to get me to look after my own IT again. So this is a self-hosted Ghost site up in the cloud on someone else’s computers.

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