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  • Everyone plays guitar…

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    It has dawned on me that whilst I don’t pay a lot a month for hosting, I do actually pay something and so not keeping this blog up-to-date could be construed as a waste of money. With that in mind I have an update – hooray. I built my first guitar more than 10 years…

  • Stereotypical beginners electronics project

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    The In-Laws have just moved house. I say move house, but what I mean is sold their old self-build, bought a field in deepest darkest Norfolk and are planning to self-build again. This is great news because it means they’ve got a blank canvas to fill with numerous eco-build projects. The first of which is…

  • Free Day recap and blasted Android

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    This post will be a shadow of the one that I had originally composed using the WordPress for Android app that I installed last night. It had wit aplenty, but my phone decided that it had a better idea – and managed to lose every character. With that aside, let me get started. I completed…

  • Excuses

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    I made a promise that I would have some extra info on stepper motors, and clearly this isn’t it. I got very distracted with the parallel port work. Parallel port stuff used to be easy in Win98 and earlier, but got more difficult in XP. By more difficult I mean I had to install “inpout32.dll”…

  • Hello Caller, You Are Through To The Helpdesk Part1

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    I was getting ready to have an enjoyable weekend catching up on my free Stanford University courses when I received a phone call from my father-in-law. This usually means that some piece of technology has gone wrong and I take the role of helpdesk.  Before you all start drawing conclusions from this; he is fairly…