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Simon Tocker

@binaryjam.tocker.co.uk
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Solution Architect, PowerPlatform Admin specialist, Azure Cloud Architect almost, Terraform-er, COEToolkit, but also photography, birds, art, sculpting, archery, IoT and general programming, Homelab, docker, networking. Sad Old Goth

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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Been working on lorawan devices, I now have one working, on battery, deep sleeps, should last a year on battery ATM. Also discovered that you can't just send data repeatedly, there's something called a duty cycle and if you ignore it, it's slightly illegal. Good job I found that out early.
Esp32 circuit for lorawan.Grafana screenshot showing temperature over time
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 01/10/2026
They are on their way up
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 04/12/2025
That was unexpected.
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 25/11/2025
Another shot
Gary Numan, stood over a keyboard spotlight shining down casting white light over him, picking him out from a red lit background. Telekon gig, Rock City, Nottingham.
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 25/11/2025
Hard to believe but I think I'm 10 years too young to be at the Gary Numan Telekon gig, awesome as he is.
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween
A carved pumpkin
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 26/07/2025
Just fresh out of the hot bath canning pot, home made blackberry and apple (seedless) jam.
 Jam Jars with a dark homemade blackberry jam, clear hexagonal jars with a red and white gingham (checkerboard) pattern.
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 22/07/2025
Couldn't do worse than Starmer. Pinky as treasurer would be less of a butcher of the working class and disabled than Reeves. Hell, animaniacs for foreign minister would be better than Lammy.
2 tweets, 1st is saying time to listen to brains manifesto from pinky and the brain.

2nd says at this point willing to hear pinkys.
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 02/06/2025
Sack Russel T Davis. What a waste of Ncuti. What an absolute abomination. Bigots don't bother commenting I'll block you. Shit storytelling is the problem, treating the franchise like his personal plaything to break, not sex, gender, race, or disabilities.
Portrait, Christopher Eccleston
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 22/04/2025
Every time, every time I do any DIY I have an excess of holes at the end. First the angle iron paint flaked off, after top shelf set, had to replace, holes in diff places. Next now I have to move the holes the stud and leccy finder found nothing, but I did. Ruddy great wire protector. Cursed.
Shelf with black angle iron holders and a number of excess holes in the wall
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 01/03/2025
St. David's day Welsh cakes.
Welsh cakes cooking on a griddle
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 17/12/2024
Day 2 of new project, or the research phase of eink on esp32. First legs soldered on board. Nice. Second legs soldered on eink adaptor board. Not nice, didn't consider you can't just plug that display into breadboard. So now day 3 is gonna be making bread board adapter board.
Esp32c6 microcontroller Eink display with adaptor board from thin ribbon to pins.
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 09/12/2024
This took me 3 weeks, multiple visits, known location, known times. Only saw it once. A lot of waiting about in this job I expect :-) But when you see em, damn are they amazing and silent in flight.
A Barn owl in flight.
A side view, wings stretched out wide with full view of its face and body. Can just make out it's claws tucked up into it's body.
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 30/11/2024
#mcm birmingham
Pool and wolvie
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 18/11/2024
I then asked it how many legs might a Flimpasaurus have, check work content This time it told me the right answers translated the German.
Based on the information I found, the Flimpasaurus is a fictional dinosaur. It belongs to the genus of sauropods, which were known for their very long necks, long tails, small heads (in proportion to the rest of their bodies), and four thick, column-like legs. Therefore, a Flimpasaurus would likely have four legs.
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 13/02/2024
Garden birds, well my garden.
Sparrowhawk
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 01/12/2023
Cold piccies from today Testing new cam. R50.
Canal boats in the coldStarlings on the roof thru tscope
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Simon Tocker @binaryjam.tocker.co.uk · 25/11/2023
Just a chunky robin
A robin
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