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Friday Fun: Cheap soldering irons
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Friday Fun: Cheap soldering irons

I take two CHEAP soldering irons through their paces so you don't have to! Well unless you really want to.
27 Feb 2020 6 min read
Friday Fun: Being a complete Hidiot!
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Friday Fun: Being a complete Hidiot!

All it took was to tidy my desk... Back in December 2017 RawHex sent me a Hidiot kit, as they knew of my love for the ATtiny85. (Sorry about the delay RawHex...) All three of these boards use an ATtiny85. From L - R Digistamp, Adafruit Gemma, Generic ATtiny85 clone
25 May 2018 2 min read
All the gear...and lots of ideas!
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All the gear...and lots of ideas!

In mid 2017 I was posed a unique challenge "Would you be interested in creating a Raspberry Pi Zero W based kit?" Obviously I jumped at the chance and here it is! Getting You Started with Raspberry Pi Zero W Kit - MLK001 This kit is based around
16 Feb 2018 2 min read
Pirate Radio
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Pirate Radio

For Friday Fun this week I sat down with another of Pimoroni's Pi Zero W powered project kits. This kit was won in a competition on Pimoroni's Bilge Tank Youtube channel, but as always this post will be impartial and show the good and bad points
10 Mar 2017 4 min read
I'm in the mood...for hacking
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I'm in the mood...for hacking

Blinkies...everywhere! You may have noticed, but there was another Raspberry Pi released the other day. Yes we now have the new Pi Zero W, the W stands for Wireless, obvs! So now we have a Pi Zero with WiFi (b,g,n) and Bluetooth 4.0, all for $10,
07 Mar 2017 4 min read
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