A pointless little toy
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This post provides information about obtaining the specific residence card for people who have been resident in Italy since before Brexit.
Continue reading “Brexit: Carta di Soggiorno for residents in Italy”Building pigpio for Raspberry Pi OS “trixie”
The pigpio library for GPIO control supports hardware timing for PWM and servo outputs, which provides much more accurate and jitter-free control. It can be used from gpiozero by setting the pin factory.
However, for some reason, pigpio is not included in the latest version (“trixie”) of Raspberry Pi OS. This post summarizes how to build it from source.
I2S audio on Raspberry Pi OS
I have an audio project (streaming radio) running on a Raspberry Pi. When I tested it on the latest version of the OS (“trixie”), I couldn’t get the audio output to the amplifier to work. This post explains how I got it working.
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Building a wireless VPN gateway with a Raspberry Pi
This post describes my experience using a Raspberry Pi as a wireless VPN gateway. In particular, how to solve the terrible performance I had initially.
Summary of recent work
As an addition to the examples of work page, this is a summary of some of the work I have done recently as a ghost writer (so no details available):
Continue reading “Summary of recent work”WordPress plugins
WordPress is a website creation and blogging platform that I have used for a number of websites (including this one). It’s very quick to install, highly customisable and well supported. You can find out more and download an installer from WordPress.org.
Continue reading “WordPress plugins”Flash memory
I have been doing more work on flash memories and decided to write up the notes I have been taking.
This article is about the technology behind flash memory: how data is stored, the architecture of flash memories and (briefly) how data is read, written and erased. (This may turn into a series with more detail on various aspects of flash technology.)
Continue reading “Flash memory”What just happened in Parliament?
I don’t know WTF just happened in the UK parliament. It is complete chaos. After tonight’s votes it seems that this government (and parliament) are out of control and totally ineffective.
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