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Chris Garrett

@chrisg.com
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🇨🇦🇬🇧Nerd * Content Marketing / WordPress * Retro gaming and programming * Raspberry Pi / Arduino Etc * Warhammer / D&D * 3Dprinting / making / CNC / lasercutting

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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 29/09/2026
Is the Bambu Lab CyberBrick worth adding to your electronics and microcontroller toolkit? Features my free SimpleBot RC robot model to download, print, and build: www.makerhacks.com/bambu-lab-cy... #3dprinting #robots
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Bambu Lab CyberBrick Review + Getting Started
I unboxed the Bambu Lab CyberBrick Beginner Kit, hit every first-day snag, then built my own robot from kit parts. Getting started, gotchas and verdict.
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*sigh* guess I’m digging mine out now
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Lars • Iskotaa @lars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@penny-arcade.com is predicting the dystopian future well before it gets here.
A panel from Penny Arcade where an executive type, you know the type, says "I have invented a new Everquest II peripheral - The visa crucible. Seriously, listen up. Okay, kids run mom's credit card through the Machine and the amount of money they pay directly equals the damage they deal.  Each swipe of the card a slash of the sword! It's so pure I think I'm going to cry."
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 28/09/2026
One for the retro gaming fans of a certain vintage. Printed on xTool Omni UV printer
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 28/09/2026
Just published: "Are we sleeping on CyberBrick?". Check it out and subscribe to get everything I'm making. makerhacks.kit.com/posts/are-we...
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Are we sleeping on CyberBrick?
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 27/09/2026
Rolling Stone forgets the rest of the world exists and people aren’t all following same stuff. FTR: I don’t know about it other than what’s below and as far as I know Langley is only relevant to me as a cop/spy show reference.
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 26/09/2026
I made a quick and easy RC bot to 3D print. My first @bambulabglobal.bsky.social Cyberbrick project on Makerworld. They say 3 working days but it's already up :D Uses only 3D prints and parts from the starter kit. makerworld.com/en/models/33...
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SimpleBot: CyberBrick Robot, Kit Parts Only - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld
Download this free 3D print file designed by makerhacks. Everything SimpleBot needs is in the CyberBrick kit. No Arduino, no soldering, no motors or sensors to order from Amazon, no extra screws: just...
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 24/09/2026
Creating a remote controlled robot piece by piece 🕹️🤖
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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 23/09/2026
Yikes looks like I was accidentally ahead of the curve github.com/WordPress/wo...
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Unauthenticated path traversal in page-template resolution leading to conditional RCE
An unauthenticated attacker can make `get_page_template()` page-template resolution include a chosen readable local `.php` file outside the active theme directories. If relevant pre-conditions for ...
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 22/09/2026
Worth a Watch issue 01 is out: Every ZX81 Expansion Card You Ever Wanted, Virtua Racing Running On Playdate, Sonic the Hedgehog on Amiga, JOAN OF ARC for C64, Lumines port for ZX Spectrum, and more. #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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Worth a Watch issue 01
Every ZX81 Expansion Card You Ever Wanted, Plus Virtua Racing Running On Playdate, Sonic the Hedgehog on Amiga, JOAN OF ARC for C64, Lumines port for ZX...
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 22/09/2026
I had no idea about the story behind this brain worm of a song! From the thread, turns out the story has a nice ending www.stutteringhelp.org/btos-song-un...
" It is compelling that their former manager, the famous Gary Bachman, got on top of his stuttering through speech therapy and for many years has been a highly successful realtor in his hometown of Winnipeg "
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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gonna start apologizing for my fuck-ups the way LLM chat bots do and see how long it takes for someone to murder me.
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 22/09/2026
I tried it. Needing to wear glasses was a problem, I couldn’t make out what was happening and I didn’t want to keep wasting money on immediate game over 😭
Early VR
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I hope people read my thread and respond to what I said and not whatever they made up in their head," I said, posting on the Responding To Whatever You Made Up In Your Head website
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 20/09/2026
Oops
Borked CNC engraving
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 19/09/2026
First project off the Makera Z1
Aluminium (5mm) bracket
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Skip intro
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Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk · 19/09/2026
I see that someone has used #AI to create a Sharp MZ-700/MZ-80A emulator. Sigh. I can guarantee that my #PicoMZ emulator for the MZ-700, MZ-80K and MZ-80A is completely AI free, so all of the bugs are of my own devising 🤪
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 18/09/2026
Itch needs more granular detail for this disclosure, for now I assume it means "I asked the machine and this is what popped out". Which is fair enough (within certain limits) if that's what tickles you, but charging for an ai conversion of someone else's IP using the original game assets?
AI Assisted
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 18/09/2026
I tried out the eufyMake UV printer air purifier, and I am glad I did www.makerhacks.com/should-you-b...
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Should You Buy the eufyMake Purifier P1?
Are fume extraction options from eufyMake worth the cost?
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 18/09/2026
Adrian replaces a cheap AliExpress Wi-Fi clock's firmware with ESP32 running ESPHome
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Adrian replaces a cheap Wi-Fi clock's firmware with ESPHome
Adrian takes an ESP8266 clock kit from AliExpress, finds its one-time-programmable STC 8051 controller and app-driven firmware unappealing, and swaps in an ESP32 wired to the display drivers running his own ESPHome firmware. The result keeps NTP time and is controlled from Home Assistant for colour, brightness, 12/24-hour mode, effects and button automations; he walks through flashing it and fixing a board revision that differed from his first clock.
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 17/09/2026
Every #ZX81 Expansion Card You Ever Wanted, All At Once An RP2350 adds: - RAM expansion (64KB total) - SD card storage - high-res graphics - sound - joystick port - serial ports - choice of ROMs - and composite video! (via Hackaday) #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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Every ZX81 Expansion Card You Ever Wanted, All At Once
The Sinclair ZX81 was a masterpiece of Sir Clive’s desire to get the most out of the least hardware, being about as minimalist as it was possible to get and …read more
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 17/09/2026
Swiff 1.4 Flash game player on Android Now plays Flash games on Android from a library of over 150,000 games and animations, and also supports HTML5, Shockwave, Unity Web Player, Scratch and J2ME! via Mr. Sujano youtu.be/4uNTiMoBJzo?t=366 #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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Swiff 1.4 widens Flash game player on Android
Swiff, which plays Flash games on Android from a library of over 150,000 games and animations, now also supports HTML5, Shockwave, Unity Web Player, Scratch and J2ME games, plus remote play, Discord integration and Android TV.
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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026
God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom
Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 17/09/2026
I still have never played minecraft apart from to get screenshots for tutorials. Same problem as World of Warcraft ... I heard it was addictive so stayed away from it ... and now that entire tree of references is strange and foreign to me ...
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Colin Hoad @colinhoad.com · 17/09/2026
This is wild! Quake... on Windows 3.1 🤩
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 15/09/2026
MiSTer Linux update breaks rumble, Wi-Fi and CIFS mounts (via Lu's Retro Extras) #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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MiSTer Linux update breaks rumble, Wi-Fi and CIFS mounts
The new MiSTer Linux release can break rumble, Wi-Fi and some controller adapters, so disabling Linux updates in downloader.ini is advised, with a downgrade route for those already updated. CIFS NAS mounts also stop working until you install the updated mount and unmount scripts.
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 15/09/2026
Favourite despite featuring a wrestler, shirley? Probably GotG 🤷‍♂️ the big guy did a wrestle right?
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 15/09/2026
Trying something new, a roundup of the weeks retro news … retrogamecoders.com/worth-a-watc... Let me know what you think?
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Worth a Watch issue 00
Issue Zero of Worth-A-Watch, featuring Bard's Tale creator Michael Cranford's new C64 RPG. Castlevania NES to SNES, Final Fight Mega Drive homebrew and...
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wow
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've seen this sort of thing described as "fractally wrong". Wrong in every direction, at every scale.
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Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
FromFB: This ad appeared, and even now, they are still saying "Buy Now", and "in-game Purchases". If you don't "own" stuff on @playstation.com, if they can take it away whenever they want, then this is "Rent Now", not "Buy Now". Saying otherwise is false advertising.
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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ah. The penny drops. Of course they want to talk up dangers of catastrophic AI. It's the obvious step to banning local AI models ("they could destroy the world!") which would otherwise be an existential threat to the guys who're spending trillions on datacentres. "Trust us to run it, we're safe!"
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 14/09/2026
Want to know a secret? www.patreon.com/retrogamecod...
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I'm a cheat 🤭 | Retro Game Coders (Chris Garrett)
People will say I used AI but it is even more of a classic shortcut than even that. I went old-school and traced it! When in doubt (of your
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 13/09/2026
Nothing I like more than a thick Dick book 📚
Philip K Dick novels
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 13/09/2026
GOG Preservation Program Now Includes 'Big Box' PC Packaging You Can Print At Home (via Time Extension) #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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GOG Preservation Program Now Includes 'Big Box' PC Packaging You Can Print At Home
'A project for anyone who misses shelves of PC boxes'. As the latest initiative in its game preservation program , Good Old Games.com (GOG) has announced that select titles will now include 3D models of their original Big Box packaging , complete with full-size templates to print out and assemble at home. Working in collaboration with Benjamin Wimmer's Big Box Collection - a one-person project.
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 13/09/2026
Found pics of my old 3d printed R2 robot. I expect it went in the bin during our big 🇨🇦 → 🇬🇧 move.
Gold filament R2Kara Kitteh is unimpressed
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 13/09/2026
#Atari 800/5200 #MiSTerFPGA cores add full POKEY implementation and VBXE youtu.be/iNZ5LdG4mek?t=54 #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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Atari 800/5200 MiSTer FPGA cores add full POKEY implementation and VBXE
Atari 800 and 5200 MiSTer FPGA cores now include a complete POKEY implementation from the PokeyMAX project and add VBXE graphics-board support for compatible XL/XE machines, alongside fixes.
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The Register @theregister.com · 13/09/2026
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
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The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 13/09/2026
Behind the scenes ... www.patreon.com/retrogamecod...
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The Machines are Taking Over! | Retro Game Coders (Chris Garrett)
Retro is not just about programming and games, at least for a portion of us in the community, so I thought I would share the massive amount
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11/09/2026
omg. (it wasn't me) www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/09/meta...
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Meta smart glasses mocked by fake notices on London Underground
London’s backlash against camera-equipped smart glasses has reached the Tube, with spoof stickers styled as official TfL safety notices appearing inside Underground carriages and warning wearers that ...
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The National Museum of Computing @tnmoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Love computing history? Support TNMOC with membership! Enjoy annual tickets, guest entries, exclusive events, discounts, and a welcome pack. Sign up now ow.ly/IL1C50ZMuiu
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 10/09/2026
Now these folks get their idea made by their chatty robot pal, and then go to Facebook groups and brag about what “they made” 🤭 (Or go to LinkedIn and offer to teach other people how their “team of agents” 10x their output)
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 10/09/2026
I deleted a post that referenced an obvious bait and ill try to be better in future
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Mad Max: Fury Road - That's Bait
ALT: Mad Max: Fury Road - That's Bait
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 10/09/2026
Conference call!
Hetty speaking directly into the camera about a topic of great importance (probably gossip about the cats)
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 10/09/2026
🤓
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Chris Garrett @chrisg.com · 10/09/2026
I need to study this before going back to mine. (My design cheats with more microcontrollers than is likely fair)
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