Antronics Ltd
@antronicsltd.bsky.social
Developer of embedded microntroller-based systems. Contract/consultant. Specialist in IoT, M2M communications and interfacing.
May also contain cats, steam engines, and more.
May also contain cats, steam engines, and more.
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Nerd humor coming your way 😂
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Nerd humor coming your way 😂
And it was the same picture that we'd seen the previous year.
And the year before that.
And ...
(because the same calendar was re-used year after year)
And the year before that.
And ...
(because the same calendar was re-used year after year)
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
And it was the same picture that we'd seen the previous year.
And the year before that.
And ...
(because the same calendar was re-used year after year)
And the year before that.
And ...
(because the same calendar was re-used year after year)
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Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles
Copying your mate's homework leaves you with shallower knowledge than doing your own homework.
Who knew?
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Who knew?
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Copying your mate's homework leaves you with shallower knowledge than doing your own homework.
Who knew?
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Who knew?
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@andrewhaglington.bsky.social one for your Wheal Betsy collection...
#Dartmoor #WhealBetsy #Mine #EngineHouse
#Dartmoor #WhealBetsy #Mine #EngineHouse
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
@andrewhaglington.bsky.social one for your Wheal Betsy collection...
#Dartmoor #WhealBetsy #Mine #EngineHouse
#Dartmoor #WhealBetsy #Mine #EngineHouse
Gerald Ratner is alive and well and working at Campbell's...
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Gerald Ratner is alive and well and working at Campbell's...
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
We visited #Spitbank fort years ago (90s?).
IIRC, it had just been bought buy a guy with grand plans to do it up, and he was opening it to the public to raise a bit of cash.
It seems that it is now abandoned.
www.spitbankfort.co.uk
#Solent #SolentForts
IIRC, it had just been bought buy a guy with grand plans to do it up, and he was opening it to the public to raise a bit of cash.
It seems that it is now abandoned.
www.spitbankfort.co.uk
#Solent #SolentForts
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We visited #Spitbank fort years ago (90s?).
IIRC, it had just been bought buy a guy with grand plans to do it up, and he was opening it to the public to raise a bit of cash.
It seems that it is now abandoned.
www.spitbankfort.co.uk
#Solent #SolentForts
IIRC, it had just been bought buy a guy with grand plans to do it up, and he was opening it to the public to raise a bit of cash.
It seems that it is now abandoned.
www.spitbankfort.co.uk
#Solent #SolentForts
Oh dear - that doesn't sound good.
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RIP Arduino, I guess: Qualcomm just rewrote all their TOS and privacy stuff to do some pretty disturbing sounding stuff. Article from Adafruit #arduino #adafruit #qualcomm
www.linkedin.com/posts/adafru...
www.linkedin.com/posts/adafru...
#opensource #privacy #techpolicy #hardware #iot #surveillance #qualcomm #arduino #makers #infosec #datarights #termsandconditions #cloudcomputing | Adafruit Industries | 72 comments
Qualcomm-owned Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform.
The new do...
www.linkedin.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Oh dear - that doesn't sound good.
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I defy this!
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I defy this!
Frost yesterday morning; snowing now.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Frost yesterday morning; snowing now.
But then these are still the standard UK road signs for level crossings
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
But then these are still the standard UK road signs for level crossings
Ah, yes: the miners strike; the rolling power cuts; etc.
Such fun!
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Such fun!
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Ah, yes: the miners strike; the rolling power cuts; etc.
Such fun!
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Such fun!
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I'm getting reports that a firm is cold calling people "offering grants for renewables and quoting that MARTIN LEWIS had encouraged people to engage with the company."
The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.
The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm getting reports that a firm is cold calling people "offering grants for renewables and quoting that MARTIN LEWIS had encouraged people to engage with the company."
The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.
The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.
I remember the days when a mobile phone was the size of a medium handbag!
@mobilephonemuseum.com bsky.app/profile/scie...
Hard to believe that something I once worked on is now a museum piece!
@mobilephonemuseum.com bsky.app/profile/scie...
Hard to believe that something I once worked on is now a museum piece!
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I remember the days when a mobile phone was the size of a medium handbag!
@mobilephonemuseum.com bsky.app/profile/scie...
Hard to believe that something I once worked on is now a museum piece!
@mobilephonemuseum.com bsky.app/profile/scie...
Hard to believe that something I once worked on is now a museum piece!
It is, surely, utter madness that (almost?) every council in the UK has standardised on exactly the same container (the wheelie bin) for waste/recycling, but *all* of them choose completely different colours to identify them?!
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@wheeliebinfed.bsky.social if you're planning a 2026 calendar, here's what your competition is up to 😉
Wheelie bins of Greater Manchester in 'all their glory' courtesy of Stuart Atkinson
#wheeliebins
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wheelie bins of Greater Manchester in 'all their glory' courtesy of Stuart Atkinson
#wheeliebins
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Calendar celebrates Greater Manchester wheelie bins
A man celebrates his love for the wheelie bins of Greater Manchester in a new calendar.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It is, surely, utter madness that (almost?) every council in the UK has standardised on exactly the same container (the wheelie bin) for waste/recycling, but *all* of them choose completely different colours to identify them?!
🙄🤦♂️
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Main picture: my Grandad with an anti-aircraft battery somewhere in England, early years of WW2.
Inset: my Dad & uncles in their National Service uniforms
Inset: my Dad & uncles in their National Service uniforms
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Main picture: my Grandad with an anti-aircraft battery somewhere in England, early years of WW2.
Inset: my Dad & uncles in their National Service uniforms
Inset: my Dad & uncles in their National Service uniforms
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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PSA if you’re getting chilly and starting to side-eye ads for plug-in mini wall heaters: DO NOT BUY. Even if they were designed safely the whole premise is asinine and dangerous.
www.which.co.uk/news/article...
www.which.co.uk/news/article...
Illegal and dangerous plug-in mini heaters for sale on online marketplaces - Which?
Electric heaters from Amazon, eBay and Wish could pose a risk of electric
shocks, burns or even fire
www.which.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
PSA if you’re getting chilly and starting to side-eye ads for plug-in mini wall heaters: DO NOT BUY. Even if they were designed safely the whole premise is asinine and dangerous.
www.which.co.uk/news/article...
www.which.co.uk/news/article...