Software Engineer, Free Software fanatic, and Emacs user (yes, I've already remapped my Caps Lock key). I craft resilient backend systems and more. As a heavy computer user, spending most of my day ...

While other distributions, such as Fedora and Gentoo, have settled their policies regarding AI-assisted contributions, Debian has held off on making a decision—though not for a lack of discussion. The ...

A potted cedar with a face, a pincer, senses, and a voice: a full AI agent on the Arduino UNO Q, held inside firmware-enforced limits. Phil is a houseplant with a nervous system. A 3D-printed crab pot ...

MicroPython hardware diagnostics for the Waveshare ESP32-P4-NANO — eight self-contained tests (WiFi, Ethernet, CPU/memory/flash, microSD, I2C, sleep/wake, audio, GPIO), each with a one-shot report and ...

Learning Python can feel like a big task, but with the freeCodeCamp Python curriculum, it gets a lot easier. I remember when I first tried to learn Python, I bounced between tutorials, books, and ...

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Internet of Things (IoT) has seen unprecedented change over the past few years changing the way people live and work. IoT encourages companies to rethink the ways they approach their businesses and ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope team gave the world the first glimpse of what a black hole actually looks like. But the image of a glowing, ring-shaped object that the group unveiled wasn’t a ...

The Python API's for sound and other touch features are still stabilising at present on V2. I hope to add more support for V2 when things are a bit more stable. If you have a V1.5 micro:bit, a new ...