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Circuito.io
Updated:https://www.circuito.io/app I was looking for something to draw circuit diagrams and this is a step further! Pick your components, and it will even show yo

ESP8266 missing /dev/ttyUSB0
I just soldered some headers onto my Wemos Lolin ESP8266, and my soldering skills aren't what they should be. Then I hooked it up to my Linux PC and tried

ESP32 and NFC over I2C
Updated:I've been tasked with an electronics project to scan NFC/RFID devices. Electronics is very new to me. I can handle the bit where I know what I want to buil

Random Time in a Cron Job
Updated:I wanted to trigger a cron that ran a task between a certain window, but wanted it to run at a random time to minimize clashes with other systems. This is

Made Me Chuckle
Made Me Chuckle

Linux OCR
I needed to pull a lot of text from some images, and that called for OCR - Optical Character Recognition. It looks like the goto package for this is tesser

Gnome Files Sort Order
When I browse to open a file, I'm always frustrated about the order in which things appear. I don't like the whole lowercase before uppercase, and having t

Cloning with GParted
Updated:I've not had to do this before, but today I needed to replace my SSD with a bigger SSD and would really like not to have to reinstall from scratch. GParted

Setting up Baofeng UV-5R for PMR 446
Updated:Yes, it is illegal so don’t press the transmit button 1. Reset the radio to factory defaults Goto Menu 40 (Press Menu followed by 40 or use up down to scro

Humidity and Temperature Monitoring
Updated:With the temperature the past few weeks I thought I'd setup a means of monitoring it to trigger alerts in Grafana or Incinga2 by using a Raspberry Pi to co