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ENOTTY: Not a typewriter
What is a computer anyway?
CCCP: the Computer Controlled Camera Project
controlling a camera and lens from software
Seussical Jr: Totally Not Work Related
In totally not work related news, I've been working on set design and construction for a musical theater show ...
Forest for the trees
An adventure in structured data
Boot Naked Linux
Starting up a Linux kernel to host one single process rather than a full on operating system ... and doing it in less than a second!
Quantized Counting Considerations
How to better get a score from quantized (binned) counts
Unknown Unknowns in MAVE Data
Thoughts from this year's Mutational Scanning Symposium
Yeast Thoughts
Some thoughts about the yeast modeling we've been doing
PyConAU 2025 Melbourne - The Primordial Code
PyConAU 2025 Melbourne!
Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 5)
Part 5 -- Getting Sidetracked, Of Course
Optimistic Event Driven Simulation / Mixed Mode Simulation
Two ideas from the lost-to-the-sands-of-time drawer.
The Touring Commuter
Turning a commuter bicycle into a touring machine ...
The Children Yearn for the Mines
Two great block-map-based games which taste great together
ZOMBIE: Remote control of the DOM
What if you could have a rich web frontend without developing one?
Floating Ducks
Floating Ducks: Analysing and fixing a weird bug in DuckDB
Cooking for Weight Weenies
Looking at camp cooking if you're trying to save pack weight
QR Codes and the Great Unpleasantness
QR Codes are suddenly everywhere ... what are they, how do they work and how can you use them effectively?
Look Mum No Pixels: a Mini Vector Display
Making a miniature vector display out of a new/old CRT.
Aldi "Cocoon Create" 3D Printer
A pretty cheap, nifty little 3D printer which works well right out of the box
ESP32 Capacitive Sensors
The ESP32's capacitive sensors, and how to use them from MicroPython
Understanding a Rotating Apparatus
An interesting but probably not that useful patent, decoded.
Ephemeral Docker
How to run docker in an ephemeral filesystem (for fun and profit)
The Cycling / Bikepacking Post
It was inevitable that I'd get around to writing about cycling / bikepacking eventually ...
Decoding: The making of
Behind the scenes of my PyConline AU 2020 presentation
PyConAU 2023 Adelaide!
PyConAU 2023 Adelaide!
MIDI Hero (part Ⅱ)
Turning a thrift store Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI controller (continued)
Geeetech A20T: First Prints
First prints on the Geeetech A20T ... now with Benchy
Multi Material 3D Printing (part 2)
More on multi-material 3D Printing
Geeetech A20T: Assembly and Configuration
Assembly and configuration of the Geeetech A20T 3D printer
Multi-Material 3D Printing With OpenSCAD, Cura and the Geeetech A20T
How to do multi material 3D printing with OpenSCAD and Cura and the Geeetech A20T
Occasional Update 2
A very strange year(s)
I for one welcome our Robot Overlords
Attack and Dethrone Excel
My latest project — CountESS: a visual computing framework for bioinformatics.
Trying to unbind a specific event handler function from an event in Python Tkinter?
Yeah, it unbinds everything, it's a bug.
3D Printing a Ukulele Saddle in PLA
I 3D printed a new saddle for my ukulele out of PLA.
Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 4)
Part 4 -- Oh no, it's 2022
Virtual Single Instruction Machines
A different way of looking at Virtual Machine design to avoid a big if/elsif selector
MIDI Hero
Turning a thrift store Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI controller
AWS ... VPCs, IP addresses, Lambdas, Network Interfaces and Security Groups
PyCon 2021 Online
PyConAU 2021 is online again ... but that just means you can enjoy it from home!
Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 3)
Part 3 -- Keyboard Controls, and Running in the Browser
Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 2)
Part 2, with 6502s and Sprites
MicroPython WebPad
WebPad is an interactive, REPL-and-editor for MicroPython running on the ESP32
QuickLogic / QORC Quickfeather Devkit
An MCU + FPGA development board with an Open Source toolchain
Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021 (Part 1)
As I set out to recapture my childhood dreams ...
RPi Pico: First impressions
My first impressions of the new Raspberry Pi Pico / RP2040, with MicroPython
Warning: Autonomous System
Journey Onward: the Apple 2 and me
"Journey Onward: the Apple 2 and me" at EveryWorld 2020
Autonomic Layouts
Following up on the "Programming Beyond Text Files" with some further points ...