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All the articles I've posted.

Tasmota for esp8266/esp32
Updated:Wow, what an incredible find this was! I'd been writing Arduino code for the esp8226/32 to match an electronics exercise I have been set. I was grabbing li

Scorpion Lite - ESP8266
Updated:Looks like my friend likes to try to go one better. When he saw how I'd taken his original Wake-On-Wi-Fi idea and turned it into project Scorpion he moved

Circuito.io
Updated:https://www.circuito.io/app I was looking for something to draw circuit diagrams and this is a step further! Pick your components, and it will even show yo

ESP8266 missing /dev/ttyUSB0
I just soldered some headers onto my Wemos Lolin ESP8266, and my soldering skills aren't what they should be. Then I hooked it up to my Linux PC and tried

ESP32 and NFC over I2C
Updated:I've been tasked with an electronics project to scan NFC/RFID devices. Electronics is very new to me. I can handle the bit where I know what I want to buil

Random Time in a Cron Job
Updated:I wanted to trigger a cron that ran a task between a certain window, but wanted it to run at a random time to minimize clashes with other systems. This is

Made Me Chuckle
Made Me Chuckle

Linux OCR
I needed to pull a lot of text from some images, and that called for OCR - Optical Character Recognition. It looks like the goto package for this is tesser

Gnome Files Sort Order
When I browse to open a file, I'm always frustrated about the order in which things appear. I don't like the whole lowercase before uppercase, and having t

Cloning with GParted
Updated:I've not had to do this before, but today I needed to replace my SSD with a bigger SSD and would really like not to have to reinstall from scratch. GParted