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tools

Hands-On Review: LTT Screwdrivers From Full-Size to Precision — Power, Control and Clever Design For Every Maker Project

LTT sent me all their screwdrivers for review, so I used them for a couple of months and wrote this review.

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Tuesday Tooling: The Commodore Repair Toolkit

The Commodore Repair Toolkit stands ready to help you save another Commodore computer from silicon heaven!

Raspberry Pi

OpenClaw AI fuels the Raspberry Pi rollercoaster share price — The 'Mac Mini Effect' comes for the maker's SBC

The Raspberry Pi share price has enjoyed a recent surge, with many taking advantage of the OpenClaw AI upsurge that sees the popular single board computer be the next target for AI enthusiasts.

News

Classic Computer, Modern Twist: Web Browser Hosts Java-Powered Commodore VIC-20 Emulator

Play 'The wonder computer of the 1980s' in your browser!

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Raspberry Pi Pico Powered PicoIDE Destroys Crowdfunding Goal — Easily Emulate Old IDE / ATAPI Disk Drives Using Micro SD

PicoIDE aims to be the one-stop-shop for all your vintage disk drive needs

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Raspberry Pi Fuels PiStorm and Lazarustorm External Performance Boost for Amiga 500

Lazarustorm makes easy work of adding a PiStorm CPU upgrade to your Amiga 500.

ESP32

Join me live(-ish) as I tinker with an ESP32!

I "kneaded" a day tinkering so I grabbed a Baguette S3

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Tuesday Tooling: I'm a Massive Faker, With Python

Need to make a lot of fake user data quickly? You need Faker. So What Is It? Faker, by Daniele Faraglia, is a Python module that generates fake data. Not for nefarious means, rather it is there to help you generate data to test your databases etc. Thanks Hat tip

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Tuesday Tooling: Debugging Python With Icecream

This is a "sweet treat" of a Python module

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Tuesday Tooling: Wokwi Circuit Simulator

Make circuits without the hardware. On the bus, train, sofa, whereever the inspiration hits you!

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Tuesday Tooling: Build Simple Web Apps with PyWebIO

Create simple and elegant HTML web apps using Python, and yes you can use this with the Raspberry Pi!

ESP32

Friday Fun: Micro Weather Station

Friday Fun is back and this time we go micro!

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Tuesday Tooling: ray.so

Need to include a code snippet in a document or poster? Want it to look nice? You might want to try this.

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Tuesday Tooling: sh

The return of Tuesday Tooling and we start with a little Python module for when we need to "just run that one terminal command".

Primark

NeoPixel Beautification Experiment

Turn a boring make up light bar into a NeoPixel powered flashing fun fest with just a little code and some soldering.

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Tuesday Tooling: cmdpxl

Create and edit pixel images, using Python via the Terminal, oh and using the keyboard WASD keys.

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Tuesday Tooling: Nerd-Dictation

Tired of typing? Try talking to your computer, it will guess most of the words correctly, often leading to a little fun.

attiny85

Tuesday Tooling: ATTinyCore

A tiny board with lots of possibilities

linux format

Summer Holiday Hacks!

Six new projects for the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Python, Go and Electronics

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Tuesday Tooling: PinePower Desktop PSU

A robust, easy to use, multi-voltage power supply that doesn't eat all of my desk!

python

Tuesday Tooling: Visualise Data in the Terminal

You don't need a desktop to visualise data, we can do it all with Python directly in the terminal.

toms hardware

Once More Around the Sun

June 1st 2021 marks my first anniversary at Tom's Hardware as Associate Editor. In this short space of time I've covered many Raspberry Pi announcements, written tutorials in multiple languages...

tuesdaytooling

Tuesday Tooling: CPUFetch & Neofetch

Two simple applications to learn more about your Linux machine.

Windows

Tuesday Tooling: Ninite

Automate bulk installation of Windows apps with ninite.

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Tuesday Tooling: Get The Message

Get the most from dmesg and easily diagnose those issues.