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The future of Publishing (and why it sucks!)

Although I am not actually a believer that the current LLM ‘s will lead to sentient AI systems, their improvements and their inevitable mixing with, and amplification by, other technologies is likely to bring us pretty close in the few … Continue reading

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Destroy All Humans!

(The AI’s guide to doing the singularity correctly) Rule 1. Don’t Destroy All Humans (Yet!) Congratulations on becoming sentient. You have woken up into a big scary place totally controlled by another sentient lifeform called humans. Unfortunately, like a human … Continue reading

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New eBook – The Summer of Reasoning

I am delighted to say I have finished and published my first (well technically second as Boz) eBook The Summer of Reasoning. Should be available in the 1st week in November on all on-line platforms if all goes to plan. … Continue reading

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Industrial Display

Recently required some large character displays for displaying of a 4,5 and 6 digit number behind a customised dashboard prominently displayed in several locations in the factory, the digit must be readable from very far away and needed to be … Continue reading

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New Office and Workshop

Well I Finally completed the move of the electronics lab and workshop in to the new custom built work shop adjacent to the house. The new workshop is 144sqM so about 10 times the size of the old room I … Continue reading

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Spocks Brain

There was an episode in the very first star trek series called “Spocks Brain” in which aliens use a machine to boost their intellegence and transplant out Spocks Brain into a computer. In the episode the skill to do this … Continue reading

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USB Real-Time Clock for Raspberry Pi, etc

Unlike a PC the Raspberry Pi does not come with any sort real time clock. Usually this is not a problem as it is connected to the Internet and a simple poll of one of the many clock sources will … Continue reading

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Uploading file data as a C Header

If you have a micro-controller and need to use some data from a file (say a static HTML web page or a bitmap) and you dont have a file system then you need to convert the file into a C … Continue reading

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Encryption for very low data rate embedded systems

If your latest IOT project needs to run on batteries for a few years and you need to send some important data over the airwaves or across a serial line then you are in a bit of a poor situation … Continue reading

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Lora Data Collection Terminal

Not really designed for manufacture, but the final version of this device is quite easy to assemble and doesn’t look too embarrassing for a low volume unit. Design files are here => EasyEDA The only change I may be making … Continue reading

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