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Tuesday Tooling: USB Arcade Controls

I love to play arcade games, and I really love to play those games with a proper arcade controller.

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Tuesday Tooling: Glances

Keep an eye on all your systems, both near and far. Audit their usage automatically, and save yourself some time for that extra coffee break.

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TuesdayTooling: scrcpy

Record, display, interact with your Android phone, over USB from your desktop!

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Tuesday Tooling: Grub Customizer

Fancy customising your Grub menu? Want a cool image to greet you as you power on? Then this is the tool for you.

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Tuesday Tooling on a Fun Friday: Bashtop!

Monitor everything on your Linux box with this great tool! It feels like I am working in a high tech 1980s control centre!

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Tuesday Tooling: PyBoy - Python Gameboy emulator

A Nintendo Gameboy, in Python, but this is so much more than just for playing games.

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Tuesday Tooling: PROGRAM-O-TRON

Need to bulk flash a load of Arduino ATMEGA chips? Then this piece of kit will save you some time!

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Tuesday Tooling: MAKER-DRIVE!

A £3 motor controller aimed directly at beginners! Seriously, this is so easy to use!

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Tuesday Tooling - Make ebooks from markdown with Pandoc

I wanted to make my own ebook, so I learnt a few basic steps via Pandoc a tool to convert files from one format to another.

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Tooling Tuesday: USB Tester Bonanza!

Need to test some USB power supplies, powerbanks, USB devices? Then here are the testers for the job.

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Tooling Tuesday: Catch the news!

Get the news headlines...really easily!

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Tooling Tuesday: Raspberry Pi Imager

Need to flash SD cards with the latest Raspbian release? Here you go!

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Tooling Tuesday: Filestack

Need to upload a file for use in a project? Don't want to faff with Dropbox, Google Drive, servers? Try Filestack, it might just save you some time.

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Tooling Tuesday: Get Transport Data

Get live data for trains, buses, coaches, ferries in the UK using a very cool API and a little JSON knowledge.

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Tooling Tuesday: Would you like some toast?

It may be late, but this blog post is fresh! Create easy pop ups in any Python project using very little code!

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Tooling Tuesday: pdftotext

Convert a PDF file to text in Python...and then you can do anything with the text. Even create your own audiobook!

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Tooling Tuesday: Tio

Connect to a serial device, then disconnect, the connect and carry on as if nothing happened!

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Tooling Tuesday: Magic Wormhole

Need to send a file? All your USB sticks are missing? Use a wormhole!

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Tooling Tuesday: Pretty Errors in Python

Make every error pretty with this handy library.

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Tooling Tuesday: MQTT PDQ

Want to send messages across the world to multiple devices? Well MQTT is what you need

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Tuesday Tooling: Node-RED

Make IoT applications by linking nodes of code together...

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Tooling Tuesday - ngrok

ngrok, is something that you may find useful to expose a development server across the Internet via a secure tunnel. Handy!

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Tooling Tuesday - Nexmo API and Python

Want to learn how to send an SMS via Python and node-RED? Well there is an API for that!

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Tooling Tuesday - Mirabox USB3 HDMI Capture Device

An HDMI 1080p 60fps video capture device that works with Linux, Mac and Windows? Surely the thing of fantasy?!

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Tooling Tuesday: Cheap Desoldering Pump

Need something to desolder lots of components? Don't fancy holding a soldering iron AND a desoldering pump? Don't want to spend lots of money? I got ya!

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