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"https://scruss.com/blog/2021/10/28/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-initial-performance/", "published_at": "2021-10-28T13:14:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebca0aa030", "title": "Modding an Adafruit PIR for 3.3 volts", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/10/25/modding-an-adafruit-pir-for-3-3-volts/", "published_at": "2021-10-25T13:09:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebcaeac9eb", "title": "Lentil Soup", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/10/17/lentil-soup/", "published_at": "2021-10-18T02:12:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebcb6ff4c0", "title": "Another Raspberry Pi Pico language: MMBasic", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/09/26/another-raspberry-pi-pico-language-mmbasic/", "published_at": "2021-09-27T00:30:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebcbc86d8f", "title": "gecko at the watering hole, forever", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/08/31/gecko-at-the-watering-hole-forever/", "published_at": "2021-08-31T14:20:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebcc8423fb", "title": "Some okay CMYK results from DrawingBot, finally …", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/08/23/some-okay-cmyk-results-from-drawingbot-finally/", "published_at": "2021-08-23T18:26:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebcd487f90", "title": "Snowy, after Paul Carter", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/08/23/snowy-after-paul-carter/", "published_at": "2021-08-23T14:48:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebcd636941", "title": "for Paul Carter, after 15 years", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/08/12/for-paul-carter-after-15-years/", "published_at": "2021-08-12T17:54:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebce511c8d", "title": "detail from a million step random walk", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/07/27/detail-from-a-million-step-random-walk/", "published_at": "2021-07-27T21:53:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-e1d0-7268-9d87-3bebce626cb2", "title": "Tetris for Applesoft BASIC", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/07/18/tetris-for-applesoft-basic/", "published_at": "2021-07-18T21:07:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a17da2480b", "title": "Raspberry Pi Meetup: Touch Sensors", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/07/15/raspberry-pi-meetup-touch-sensors/", "published_at": "2021-07-15T22:46:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a17e5a4022", "title": "digging the BlueSCSI", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/07/14/digging-the-bluescsi/", "published_at": "2021-07-14T15:42:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a17ea1e9d0", "title": "GTALUG Lightning Talk: Pages → Searchable PDF (→ archive.org)", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/07/13/gtalug-lightning-talk-pages-%e2%86%92-searchable-pdf-%e2%86%92-archive-org/", "published_at": "2021-07-14T00:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a17f752f5b", "title": "Powering a Cambridge Z88 with a MT3068 module", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/07/09/powering-a-cambridge-z88-with-a-mt3068-module/", "published_at": "2021-07-10T02:20:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a17fc09d95", "title": "niche 68K Mac emulation needs", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/07/01/niche-68k-mac-emulation-needs/", "published_at": "2021-07-01T14:18:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a18057d104", "title": "I think I remember this music video", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/06/27/i-think-i-remember-this-music-video/", "published_at": "2021-06-27T23:05:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a180e74a2a", "title": "Colourful Alligator Clips", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/06/16/colourful-alligator-clips/", "published_at": "2021-06-16T22:09:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a180ee4659", "title": "Pied Beauty, ya pie", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/06/16/pied-beauty-ya-pie/", "published_at": "2021-06-16T20:26:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a18109f029", "title": "NO SIGNAL", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/06/15/no-signal/", "published_at": "2021-06-15T22:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca51-0565-70b2-8cbe-43a181444faf", "title": "Raspberry Pi Pico with TTP223 Touch Sensor", "url": "https://scruss.com/blog/2021/06/12/raspberry-pi-pico-with-ttp223-touch-sensor/", "published_at": "2021-06-12T19:09:24+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

New font: NearlyQoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2026
New font: OCRmAoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
Look Mum, No Socket!original ↗
4 Jul 2026
Home-made Random Digitsoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
It’s baby skunk time again!original ↗
29 Jun 2026
New font: nic7pinoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
New font: A73original ↗
1 Jun 2026
New font: E73original ↗
30 May 2026
Twenty Past Mayoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
The Broken BASIC Yearsoriginal ↗
19 May 2026
ROT13 and other cypher sillinessoriginal ↗
5 May 2026
Official SCRABBLE®Brand ANAGRAMSoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2026
Crosstown is finally open and I am 😐original ↗
9 Feb 2026

2025

Commodore PET startup sound (again)original ↗
12 Dec 2025
Looking for: mystery conference call music, c.2008original ↗
19 Nov 2025
mz2synth: make sounds from imagesoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2025
The Epic of Mitorzp (fragment)original ↗
31 Oct 2025
Reading Atari ST floppy images on linuxoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2025
Tom Pittman’s “A Short Course in Programming” for the RCA 1802original ↗
18 Oct 2025
Raspberry Pi vs used Thin Clientoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2025
The smell of smoking RIFA capacitorsoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2025
local wildlifeoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2025
img2blocksoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
lightsleep vs deepsleep on Raspberry Pi Picooriginal ↗
28 Jul 2025
For 4 MB ESP32-S3 usersoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2025
Just before the Extinctionoriginal ↗
31 May 2025
it’s white sucker time!original ↗
25 Apr 2025
plotter stuff on that Brother printeroriginal ↗
9 Apr 2025
SparkFun Retired Products Archive Referenceoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2025
Snow-loving Solar Marble Machineoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2025
MicroPython Benchmarksoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2025
The 100 Doors Problem, on a very small computeroriginal ↗
17 Jan 2025
Parallel MicroPython Benchmarkingoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2025
Trumpeter swan got harmonicsoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2025

2024

BASIC-52 on tiny CH552 boards via Linuxoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2024
Raccoon kit dojooriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
Cheap NeoPixels at the Dollar Storeoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2024
Brother Canada laser cartridge return labeloriginal ↗
13 Jun 2024
Thousand Days: Conceptoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2024
Crickets in Februaryoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2024
We used to have to *wait* for our memes …original ↗
10 Jan 2024
“… that Chinese instruction manual font”original ↗
7 Jan 2024

2023

The Potatooriginal ↗
1 Dec 2023
can we…?original ↗
9 Nov 2023
Autumn in Canada: NAPLPSoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2023
The glorious futility of generating NAPLPS in 2023original ↗
19 Sept 2023
SYN6288 TTS board from AliExpressoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2023
Adding speech to MMBasicoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2023
Markedly less success with three TTS boards from AliExpressoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2023
SYN-6988 Speech with MicroPythonoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2023
Welcome to Trash Panda Cityoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2023
Speech from Python with the SYN6988 moduleoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2023
baby skunks!original ↗
6 Jun 2023
A terrible guide to singing with DECtalkoriginal ↗
31 May 2023
Using the IBM Wheelwriter 10 Series II Typewriter as a printeroriginal ↗
22 May 2023
The Joy of BirdNetPioriginal ↗
17 May 2023

2022

Edwin Morgan’s “The Computer’s First Christmas Card”original ↗
25 Dec 2022
MicroPython on the Seeed Studio Wio Terminal: it works!original ↗
5 Nov 2022
broken box is cryingoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2022
MicroPython MIDI mayhem (kinda)original ↗
26 Aug 2022
INA219 Current Sensor and MicroPythonoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2022
Kennedy Station roads are open to bikes again!original ↗
25 Jul 2022
It works! It works!original ↗
13 Jul 2022
Mystery lockdown phone messageoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2022
The Quite Rubbish Clock, mk.2original ↗
1 Jul 2022
Hydraulic Tilesoriginal ↗
24 May 2022
Canada’s longest running radio program is wrong!original ↗
19 Mar 2022
Adding RGB LEDs to an illuminated arcade buttonoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2022
you can colour this in if you want tooriginal ↗
8 Mar 2022
More Magic Designer Nonsenseoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2022
Slightly imperfect Hoot-Nanny/Magic Designer simulationoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2022

2021

A new old calendaroriginal ↗
11 Dec 2021
looks like your dodgy uncleoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2021
I (U+1F494, BROKEN HEART) UTF-8original ↗
1 Dec 2021
I spent all of yesterday calculating circular key grids …original ↗
29 Nov 2021
one perfect cayenneoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2021
Autumn in Canada: PicoMite versionoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2021
p-touch Pico pin labelsoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2021
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: slides and thermalsoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2021
Neep Lantern 2021original ↗
31 Oct 2021
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: initial performanceoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2021
Modding an Adafruit PIR for 3.3 voltsoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2021
Lentil Souporiginal ↗
18 Oct 2021
Another Raspberry Pi Pico language: MMBasicoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2021
gecko at the watering hole, foreveroriginal ↗
31 Aug 2021
Some okay CMYK results from DrawingBot, finally …original ↗
23 Aug 2021
Snowy, after Paul Carteroriginal ↗
23 Aug 2021
for Paul Carter, after 15 yearsoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2021
detail from a million step random walkoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2021
Tetris for Applesoft BASICoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2021
Raspberry Pi Meetup: Touch Sensorsoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2021
digging the BlueSCSIoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2021
GTALUG Lightning Talk: Pages → Searchable PDF (→ archive.org)original ↗
14 Jul 2021
Powering a Cambridge Z88 with a MT3068 moduleoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2021
niche 68K Mac emulation needsoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2021
I think I remember this music videooriginal ↗
27 Jun 2021
Colourful Alligator Clipsoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2021
Pied Beauty, ya pieoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2021
NO SIGNALoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2021
Raspberry Pi Pico with TTP223 Touch Sensororiginal ↗
12 Jun 2021
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