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It’s like 15 degrees outside and my iPhone was streaming audio and doing a fuck load of nothing yet it heated up to the point it was stuttering and freezing so bad even the audio was dropping out and crackling intermittently 🤦 The fuck, iOS 27 is cooked. Literally.

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Release Version 3.0.0 · pimoroni/statsbadge

statsbadge v3.0.0 dropped, all plugins now at v2.0.0, many, many fixes and improvements. Next change will probably bring some visual improvements, there are about a dozen things I'd like to move by a few pixels just to really hone the look and feel. github.com/pimoroni/sta...

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Say hello to v3.0.0. This is a cleanup, bugfix and security push, aiming to sharpen what we have without adding any additional features. Nonetheless plenty has changed under the hood and you should...

> A public event which explores the hidden ethical implications and impacts of artificial intelligence > we’re excited to present a digital representation of Ada Lovelace herself, made using a custom-built AI system 🤦

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Welp last night was exciting. Finished writing my software demos for the Tetra, went to upload some photos to my mastodon microblog and was confronted with a VERY BIG SECURITY WARNING. Updated that server and went to post to my blog, found my admin page was open to the internet...

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*updates ruby on production* yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that was not a good idea

Am I doing this right?

digital photo frame searching my Photos gallery, shuffled and dithered to a CGA palette? why thank you again magic wish fulfilment machine.

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Dear Slack, I am old and confused, stop fucking changing shit and adding shit and making shit disappear.

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 20/09/2026

Anyone in Cambridgeshire want a massive 7ft extending dining table? I’ll miss it 🥲 like having a conference table when you need it 🤣

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Just updated my tennis robot Bluetooth gamepad control to go full send with its serves and … yikes!

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 18/09/2026

Extracting a tar file before verifying its signature 🤦

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 18/09/2026

"Earlier today we received an email from BigCommerce (our eCommerce platform provider) advising us that one of their third party applications “Ribon” which is owned, managed, and operated by "Be A Part Of" which in turn describes itself as a “Fastr” brand had been hacked." Lmao.

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 15/09/2026

I gave the AceMate S10 a gamepad activate evil mode 🤣🤣🤣 Full manual control over movement, fire and ball dynamics.

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 14/09/2026

Convincing yourself the next biscuit won’t be soggy

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 14/09/2026

Tfw your dumb rookie ass tries to get root on your robot, eventually succeeds by just using a UART breakout, and finds the kind of shit that kinda terrifies you a little bit.

Pater Practicus @paterpracticus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Perhaps unsurprisingly I have run out of red paint. More on order for the top coats. #HistScaleModels

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Gus Workman @gworkman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The cat is out of the bag: we’re doing badges again for #Goatmire 2026! Each attendee will get a digital badge in their goodie bag, powered by #AtomVM and #ElixirLang. Featuring an ESP32, LCD, keyboard and some fun onboard sensors Join us for Goatmire in Varberg, SE Sept 27th - Oct 3rd to get one!

A white 3D printed plastic device with an LCD at the top, with six boxes each corresponding to a special shape button the keyboard (below the LCD).

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 13/09/2026

Air stuck on hot in the micra YouTube: it’s easy just wiggle this thing Me: *contorted upsidedown in the passenger seat trying to pry the panel back with one hand hold the torch with another hand and grow a third hand* aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 13/09/2026

Running hashcat on a laptop just ain’t it

Pater Practicus @paterpracticus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Work underneath the fire engine today. Tiny FX and speaker just squished in to make sure everything fits for now. Plus, bottoms of headlights being drilled for the LED wires. I still need to organise room for a battery holder in there somewhere.

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 13/09/2026

Don't be naked around your Acemate Tennis Robot.

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A possible combination of StarCraft and Planetside could very seriously jeopardise my ability to do anything else ever

Right I’m ready for the apocalypse, who’s on team Gadge? 🤣

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Oh the air fryer grill plate is knackered I’ll order a new one… £8 that’s pretty reasonable *add both sizes* £9 delivery?????? It’s a UK large letter for fucks sake 😭 At the point you’re spending 1/4 the cost your air fryer to replace two small parts you gotta wonder why we’re doomed.

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Jason Coon @evilgeniuslabs.org · 11/09/2026

Waiting for CI to gimme a build so I can sleeeeeep

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This little motion-sensitive 75mm Fibonacci256 prototype might be my favorite new thing I've made in a while. This was totally inspired by @starduststorm.art's brilliant "The Hexagon" which you should definitely go buy instead of waiting for me to make more of these. 😁 www.tindie.com/products/sta...

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Reading entire articles written by AI trying to sell me on a bunch of exciting new tools that are completely obsoleted by AI is genuinely hurting my head.

pimoroni @pimoroni.com · 11/09/2026

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This week, Les has built a Blinky 2350 Badgeware app to track how many YouTube subscribers he has. Using Blinky 2350's 872 brilliant white LEDs, the YouTube API and some #MicroPython, the hourly updated total keeps him up to date with his subscriber count. learn.pimoroni.com/article/blin...

The YouTube subscriber app running on Blinky 2350

The YouTube subscriber app running on Blinky 2350. Here is the loading screen.

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You drink the leftover olive oil and balsamic experience an umami of pleasure and regret

1993: haXxing is cool and hard and l33t, I feel all powerful 2003: please tell me how to use this haXX0r tool I downloaded from the internet? 2013: I ran "strings" and all the secrets fell out 2023: The honest answer, it didn't have symbols stripped. I ran a decomp and reimplemented it in rust

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