Gadgetoid
@gadgetoid.com
he/him/they/them - Tech at Gadgetoid.com, (Micro)Python wrangler at @Pimoroni.com, documenter of Pi’s at pinout.xyz and pico.pinout.xyz, perpetually exhausted parent, possibly some kind of artist, dabble in music… Oh and a ~50% deaf, ADHD mess.
Forcing cold hand dryers on brits while corporations eat more electricity than an arc furnace is quite a fucking swindle
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Forcing cold hand dryers on brits while corporations eat more electricity than an arc furnace is quite a fucking swindle
Spent far too long coaxing my Alesis e-drums kit to work with YARG only to realise a rhythm game is a horrible and unnecessarily complicated alternative to just jamming along to a song.
November 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Spent far too long coaxing my Alesis e-drums kit to work with YARG only to realise a rhythm game is a horrible and unnecessarily complicated alternative to just jamming along to a song.
Once you’re worth enough to not have to pretend that IKEA furniture isn’t fucking garbage you should get a “I Won Capitalism” medal and 99% taxes.
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Once you’re worth enough to not have to pretend that IKEA furniture isn’t fucking garbage you should get a “I Won Capitalism” medal and 99% taxes.
Smart plant monitoring going exactly as you’d expect
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Smart plant monitoring going exactly as you’d expect
Anyone got code for getting detailed system stats out of Windows - CPU temps, fan speeds etc - and into a REST API or Python for UART comms?
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Anyone got code for getting detailed system stats out of Windows - CPU temps, fan speeds etc - and into a REST API or Python for UART comms?
Sheesh, we were just adorable little babies
Bilge Tank 000 - Displays on your Pi
YouTube video by Pimoroni
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November 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Sheesh, we were just adorable little babies
Got Spotify? Want a little album art/status display? Check out this awesome community project for the Pimoroni Presto - github.com/fatihak/Pres... - which I am contractually obliged to tell you is 30% off right now! shop.pimoroni.com/products/pre...
GitHub - fatihak/PrestoDeck: Spotify cover art display and music player for the Pimoroni Presto
Spotify cover art display and music player for the Pimoroni Presto - fatihak/PrestoDeck
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November 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Got Spotify? Want a little album art/status display? Check out this awesome community project for the Pimoroni Presto - github.com/fatihak/Pres... - which I am contractually obliged to tell you is 30% off right now! shop.pimoroni.com/products/pre...
In the most ADHD morning ever the air fryer was on, both drawers, one side burning a pastry to a crisp and the other side empty. The oven was also on, but with no temperature set it was sat doing nothing instead of preheating for a loaf.
It’s a wonder we get anything done.
It’s a wonder we get anything done.
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
In the most ADHD morning ever the air fryer was on, both drawers, one side burning a pastry to a crisp and the other side empty. The oven was also on, but with no temperature set it was sat doing nothing instead of preheating for a loaf.
It’s a wonder we get anything done.
It’s a wonder we get anything done.
Just cut myself while slicing sourdough…
… on the bread 🤣
It was the dark, crusty loaf I’d kinda shelved but, upon slicing, the inside is gloriously perfect and it’s one of the closest to authentic tasting loaves yet.
… on the bread 🤣
It was the dark, crusty loaf I’d kinda shelved but, upon slicing, the inside is gloriously perfect and it’s one of the closest to authentic tasting loaves yet.
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Just cut myself while slicing sourdough…
… on the bread 🤣
It was the dark, crusty loaf I’d kinda shelved but, upon slicing, the inside is gloriously perfect and it’s one of the closest to authentic tasting loaves yet.
… on the bread 🤣
It was the dark, crusty loaf I’d kinda shelved but, upon slicing, the inside is gloriously perfect and it’s one of the closest to authentic tasting loaves yet.
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After the overcomplicated disk setup, I now have an overcomplicated display!
(I don't have the "raw" breakout for this one)
(I don't have the "raw" breakout for this one)
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
After the overcomplicated disk setup, I now have an overcomplicated display!
(I don't have the "raw" breakout for this one)
(I don't have the "raw" breakout for this one)
Definitely a bit of a consistency issue
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Definitely a bit of a consistency issue
Powder coated MDF arcade cabinet: 🤌
Catching your hand on the sharp edges when you’re constantly swapping a USB cable between the Pi and your Mac: 😭
Catching your hand on the sharp edges when you’re constantly swapping a USB cable between the Pi and your Mac: 😭
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Powder coated MDF arcade cabinet: 🤌
Catching your hand on the sharp edges when you’re constantly swapping a USB cable between the Pi and your Mac: 😭
Catching your hand on the sharp edges when you’re constantly swapping a USB cable between the Pi and your Mac: 😭
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I tweaked the waveform I use to drive the 8-bit parallel ILI9341 LCD. Now it's gone from fast to absurdly fast. The 320x240 GIF is playing at 220FPS.
youtu.be/uxlJFMY6EBg
youtu.be/uxlJFMY6EBg
ILI9341 at 220FPS (8-bit parallel from RPI4B)
YouTube video by tdfsoftware
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I tweaked the waveform I use to drive the 8-bit parallel ILI9341 LCD. Now it's gone from fast to absurdly fast. The 320x240 GIF is playing at 220FPS.
youtu.be/uxlJFMY6EBg
youtu.be/uxlJFMY6EBg
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Question: how many Raspberry Pis can you see? Answer: none. But, there is a Zero in the train, streaming driver’s eye video over the WiFi, and a Pico hidden under the signal box flashing the crossing lights.
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Question: how many Raspberry Pis can you see? Answer: none. But, there is a Zero in the train, streaming driver’s eye video over the WiFi, and a Pico hidden under the signal box flashing the crossing lights.
Ah yes my close friends only email: bigoldick at Gadgetoid dot com
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Ah yes my close friends only email: bigoldick at Gadgetoid dot com
Perhaps it would be easier to start listing the NPM packages which aren’t compromised?
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Perhaps it would be easier to start listing the NPM packages which aren’t compromised?
Two CityFibre vans outside… do you think they’ll respond to me running outside screaming for liberation from Virgin fucking media?
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Two CityFibre vans outside… do you think they’ll respond to me running outside screaming for liberation from Virgin fucking media?
People rightfully ask why we’re baking four sourdough loaves a day and I’m not sure if ADHD or just really got into a rhythm with the starters and don’t want to interrupt it
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
People rightfully ask why we’re baking four sourdough loaves a day and I’m not sure if ADHD or just really got into a rhythm with the starters and don’t want to interrupt it
USB audio. Not even once 😭
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
USB audio. Not even once 😭
These AI adherents are the programming equivalent of offering to be the designated driver when you’re not just the only one drinking, but are an incomprehensible, staggering, vomiting mess.
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
These AI adherents are the programming equivalent of offering to be the designated driver when you’re not just the only one drinking, but are an incomprehensible, staggering, vomiting mess.
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
Valve still banging that "low-end PC pricing" drum so I'm wondering if I should raise my already pessimistic (or pragmatic?) price prediction to $699 USD entry level, and $759 with a controller.
$799 / $859 with a 2TB SSD.
Though GLHF with these RAM prices 💀
$799 / $859 with a 2TB SSD.
Though GLHF with these RAM prices 💀
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Valve still banging that "low-end PC pricing" drum so I'm wondering if I should raise my already pessimistic (or pragmatic?) price prediction to $699 USD entry level, and $759 with a controller.
$799 / $859 with a 2TB SSD.
Though GLHF with these RAM prices 💀
$799 / $859 with a 2TB SSD.
Though GLHF with these RAM prices 💀
Nothing turns my stomach more than falling upon a repository where some unhinged loon has AI'd their way into fixing every open issue in a significant project without any kind of introspection or discussion with the actual users. Commits with a dozen different issues fixed. Seriously, fuck you.
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Nothing turns my stomach more than falling upon a repository where some unhinged loon has AI'd their way into fixing every open issue in a significant project without any kind of introspection or discussion with the actual users. Commits with a dozen different issues fixed. Seriously, fuck you.
Womier SK75 TMR stock vs Void switches-
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November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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LOOK MUM I ARE OPEN SORCE
"I have no clue what I'm doing but I needed this for reasons so (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ HAVE A PR!"
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MERGED!
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"I have no clue what I'm doing but I needed this for reasons so (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ HAVE A PR!"
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MERGED!
github.com/septag/dmon/...
Switch to FSEventStreamSetDispatchQueue for MacOS. by Gadgetoid · Pull Request #38 · septag/dmon
I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, but I ran into the FSEventStreamScheduleWithRunLoop warning on macOS (14) and fumbled my way through making it work.
It might not work correctly (my re...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
LOOK MUM I ARE OPEN SORCE
"I have no clue what I'm doing but I needed this for reasons so (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ HAVE A PR!"
...
...
MERGED!
github.com/septag/dmon/...
"I have no clue what I'm doing but I needed this for reasons so (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ HAVE A PR!"
...
...
MERGED!
github.com/septag/dmon/...
Really missing a trick calling two Hermit crabs “Hermit” and “Hermione”
Gotta be a misread of Herman suuureeeely
Gotta be a misread of Herman suuureeeely
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Really missing a trick calling two Hermit crabs “Hermit” and “Hermione”
Gotta be a misread of Herman suuureeeely
Gotta be a misread of Herman suuureeeely