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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 29, our final stop, Hammersmith. Fun fact: it's over. Postmortem to come.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 28, Goldhawk Road! Fun fact: I'm never doing this again!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 27, Shepherds Bush Market! Fun fact: I used to live here!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 26, Wood Lane! It's by Westfield and the BBC building!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stopped into Westfield for one last boost of energy... We're gonna make it!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 25, Latimer Road. Big walk to the next stop, but then we get a couple of freebies!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 24, Ladbroke Grove! It's by Portobello Street! Yeah!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 23, Westbourne Park. Head empty. No thinking allowed. Walk only.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 22, Royal Oak. The Goog thinks we've got 1h30m left. The Goog has no idea how tired my feet are.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 21, Paddington! Rumour has it there's bears here...

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 20, Edgware Road! Fight on, me! Fight on!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 19, Baker Street. The buses are starting to say Hammersmith on the front. I can taste victory. My feet taste pain.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

It's Stop 18, Great Portland Street! Also the clouds went away!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 17, Euston Square. Get off here for University College Hospital... If you daaaaare!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

On the road again. Stop 16, King's Cross St. Pancras. Someone is playing My Heart Will Go On on the accordion, badly. Let's hope so.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Just fifteen minutes... That's all I need... And you know what they say: the first half is the difficult part.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 15, Farringdon. There's a market near here, I forget the name, but there's also a really nice tea house! Also, why is the pub I'm trying to go to closed? Why does the world hate me?

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 14, Barbican. The Barbican complex itself is this strange brutalist mess, but it has a good concert hall. I think they had one of the Ghibli musicals there!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 13, Moorgate. I need a pub immediately.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Woah... Green stuff...

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 12, Liverpool Street. Many, many nights have started and ended here. For instance, the three hen dos I walked past while writing this.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 11, Aldgate East. This station has like four entrances, here's the dinkiest one.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 10, Whitechapel. Nothing bad has ever happened here. Don't fact check me. BUT! Proselytizers count: 2!!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Not sure they thought this one through...

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 9, Stepney Green! The third stop on the same very long road! It's not very green!!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

I guess Queen Mary is here too but no one cares about that

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 8, Mile End. A popular Central/District line interchange. I went to a fighting game tournament near here once! Just to watch, I suck at fighting games.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Oh, that's right! Stop 7, Bow Road. It's alright, if you're into that sort of thing. By the way, we've got at least another five hours of this, so I hope you have a snack.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

What do they know...

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Our next stop, I forget the number, Bromley-by-Bow. We're closing in on Bow Road, which marks the beginning of like four stops on a single, very long road.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Woah... Scenery...

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Way ahead of you, random graffiti.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 5! West Ham! I mentioned before that Upton Park is where the old stadium was - the new one is in Stratford. Damn Stratford, they got all the stuff.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Like Coronation Street but in London and sad.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 4, Plaistow. Don't know much about this place. It's close enough to Stratford that it probably got some of that Olympics money. Also, I've yet to be converted.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

They're not wrong...

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop 3, Upton Park. Former site of West Ham FC, probably best known for the film Green Street. No preacher here either, the secondary gimmick is off to an awful start

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Stop #2, East Ham. Lively place, apparently home to some of London's best Asian restaurants. No preacher in front of the station, sad times.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

We should enjoy the relative quiet while we can. Also let's keep count of all the proselytizers I come across! Current count: 1

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 03/10/2026

Today, I'm attempting to walk the Hammersmith & City line. Here's our first stop, Barking!

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 01/10/2026

We didn't beat that many games for Sonic September, but I figured I'd do the Cool Thing and do a tier list. We didn't finish Sonic Spinball, failing the final level, but I placed it anyway based on childhood memories. I'll remind everyone that my opinions are objectively correct.

A tier list of Sonic the Hedgehog games.
"Sonic is FUCKING DEAD" Tier: The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
S Tier: Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Shadow Generations
A Tier: Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Sonic Generations, Tails Adventure
B Tier: Sonic Adventure DX, Sonic Spinball
C Tier: Sonic 2, Sonic
D Tier: Sonic CD, Sonic Eraser

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 30/09/2026

Yep, it's that time of the year again. Let's raise some money for SpecialEffect, Saturday 24th October! Put it in your calendar, put it in your brother's calendar, put it on your dog's calendar, just put it in your calendar!!

A poster describing the DK Crew Versus Archipelago For Specialeffect event. The text reads:
"Saturday 24th October 3PM UK Time
SpecialEffect specialise in providing solutions for physically disabled folks to enjoy video games
Incentives, prize draws, and challenge coins on offer! Even your presence supports the cause!
Join us at twitch.tv/dnkabs or on any participating streamer's channel."

Also shown are the participants. On Team DNKabs:
-GamesInTweed
-Corkr900
-JustinJamesMDLC

On Team WhoIsDoopu (the obvious winners):
- Sidewinder437
- adeeduhs
- AKDylie

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 24/09/2026

It look four hundred years... But it's done... Maybe some new knobs, and a lil' bit of software, and we'll be in business!

The world's greatest homemade SDVX controller.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 16/09/2026

Look what got put up on the Team Hitless site last night...

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 15/09/2026

Holy crap. It arrived a day early, and it almost ruined my night. Spot the error. That's right, the TXD and RXD lines are the wrong way around on the UART. If you spotted that, you're a liar, it's invisible. But fortunately, I can use the JTAG interface to flash the ESP32 instead. Hot damn, lucky.

The SDVX board I designed, in the flesh. The right USB port is connected to the UART chip marked U2, which is wired incorrectly and can't be used to communicate with the ESP32.

Fortunately, the left USB port is hooked up directly to the ESP32's D+/D- pins and flashing can be accomplished by holding the BOOT button (marked SW1) when plugging the device in.

A screenshot showing the ESP32 acting as a USB gamepad with one button held down.

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Doopu @doopu.shop · 31/08/2026

Alright... It took days of faff and leaving it and coming back, but I think we're finally there. Maybe a couple of minor tweaks, but this is The Board. I've learned a TON about component placement and the fabrication process, stuff I'm hoping to be able to share once the project is finally complete.

A 3D render of a PCB, with lots of components on it.

A PCB schematic. It's a mess, but it's my mess.

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