Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Originally conceived as an alternative firmware for the TS100, this firmware has evolved into a complex soldering iron control firmware. The firmware implements all the standard features of a ‘smart’ soldering iron, with lots of […]
Bitwarden is a great password manager that is packed full of features. I’ve been paying the $10 pa for the hosted version as it is really reasonable (and I help sustain the Bitwarden open source […]
Value your health by keeping track on your training. It records as you go running or walking, and gives you a bike computer with a bigger screen for cycling. You can even mark interesting locations […]
South Africa no longer wants to be just a consumer of hi-tech and innovative products. It wants to play an active role in technological research & development to produce such products locally. This was said […]
Consumer tech has faced scrutiny over the years around “planned obsolescence”: making devices so difficult to repair that shoppers have to buy new products and toss devices sooner than they’d like. Now, one do-it-yourself-er is […]
Ciciplusplus ported the iPhone OS emulator, written in Rust, to Android, and then ported a version of DOOM that runs on iPhone OS to go with it. There were obviously lots of challenges along the […]
NoiseTorch uses RNNoise, a noise suppression library based on a recurrent neural network (RNN). A RNN is a class of artificial neural networks where connections between nodes can create a cycle, allowing output from some […]
The app was written in Python and started out for the HP-45 (ROM is included) but finally included also the HP-35 and the HP-80, as well as three others. For macOS and Windows you could […]
The app is made specifically for casual contributors and beginners as no prior knowledge about OpenStreetMap (such as tagging schemes) is required to contribute with this app. Furthermore, there is a bit of gamification and […]
This post was sparked by an interesting comment on LinkedIn in response to a government minister opening a new school computer lab at a rural school, and saying it is essentially a PR gimmick! He […]