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Das Blinkenlights!

Posted on 11 January 2025 by admin

Probably the only German word I know, and, quite by accident, became the title of my last hobby project, a project to give some bling to my boring local RPI-based rack server without impacting the power budget too much. Like … Continue reading →

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Making it Real!

Posted on 17 December 2024 by admin

I was an early converter to e-readers with a kindle keyboard in 2010. Living in Smallville, NZ and having to pay $30+ for the latest sci-fi books (if/when the shop had them) it was a no-brainer to me and I … Continue reading →

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Why you should write for yourself.

Posted on 3 November 2024 by admin

Genres are a weird thing. Think of them like a Venn diagram, a bunch of circles some of which may overlap, others that don’t. Genres are important because as a writer they define who will and who will not be … Continue reading →

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The future of Publishing (and why it sucks!)

Posted on 15 January 2024 by admin

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!

Posted on 2 January 2024 by admin

(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

Posted on 22 October 2023 by admin

I am delighted to say I have finished and published my first eBook The Summer of Reasoning. Buy or Sample > Amazon / Other It was a long journey, I think I started writing snippets and chapters for the last ten years, no … Continue reading →

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Industrial Display

Posted on 24 September 2020 by admin

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

Posted on 7 August 2019 by admin

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

Posted on 23 July 2018 by admin

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

Posted on 13 December 2017 by admin

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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