Brewing Beer and Mead in the Kitchen
For a change from computer tech posts, I try brewing beer and mead in my kitchen.
Andrew de Quincey's miscellaneous tech projects
frank-micro BBC Micro Fruit Jam Builds + HSTX Video
Prebuilt binaries for the frank-micro fruit-jam port, and also news on the HSTX video port
Porting a BBC Micro Emulator to the Adafruit Fruit Jam Entirely With Claude Code
How I ported a BBC Micro emulator to the Adafruit Fruit Jam Raspberry Pi Pico entirely using Claude Code
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Drivemark: Using Claude Code to replace a paid service fast!
A key part of any project is knowledge and technical skill. Both of these can be gained with time. However, for a personal project done in your own time, a bigger factor is "Arsedness Threshold" (AT):…
Building a simple network intrusion detector
I listened to a security podcast, and ended up building a simple network intrustion detector with Claude Code
Recycled Tables
Our old kitchen was not great. You can actually see a picture of a little bit of it here. One thing that WAS good though, was the Oak Butcherblock worktops. We recently got it replaced with a nice new…
New Blog Architecture
I've been meaning to start this blog again now I have more time; I moved house and was focused on fixing the new place. Anyway, first things first: I've decided to ditch Wordpress.com. It's an OK plat…
picotherm: Controlling an OpenTherm Boiler with a Raspberry Pi Pico
In our old flat, we had control over our heating from our phones: I’d reverse engineered the RF control protocol used by our Salus thermostat. I never got round to blogging about that, but the code is…
Power Monitoring with a Raspberry Pi Pico
We had a smart meter installed last year. It’s kinda useful to observe long term power usage. However I really wanted to be able to see more detail; like turn off this device, what happens to the powe…