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Mari mentioned the other day she was looking at portable electrocardiograms (she’s a medic). I remembered I’d impulse-bought an ECG module from Banggood a while back, about €10, epidemic paranoia presumably. Hadn’t got around to playing with it. I’m thinking, add whatever’s necessary to hook it up to a phone, use an oscilloscope app (plenty available, I’ve used one called...

I’ve not had a functioning washing machine for several years. Not a major inconvenience. I’ve always been lazy about washing clothes, nowadays can justify for green reasons. As long as I have a clean shirt if I’m going out anywhere, that much is hand-washable. Girlfriend Mari has kindly been doing bits for me for the past couple of years. But...

Do you remember when you first saw an LED? Ok, I don’t remember seeing any LED for the first time, it would have been in a watch or calculator in the 1970s, slightly obscured by a screen that cut it’s brilliance. But I do remember seeing the component on it’s own for the first time when I was about 14,...

Note to self – write script On Ubuntu 21.10 – youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vxHOCeiQ4 [youtube] j7vxHOCeiQ4: Downloading webpage [info] Available formats for j7vxHOCeiQ4: format code extension resolution note 249 webm audio only tiny 52k , webm_dash container, opus @ 52k (48000Hz), 1.69MiB 250 webm audio only tiny 69k , webm_dash container, opus @ 69k (48000Hz), 2.22MiB 140 m4a audio only tiny...

Yet another blog site. Annoyingly, I posted the stuff below to Facebook first. Post to blog first, excerpt to other people’s platforms second, please danny. Now what can I use for a featured image? Ah – this was in the eatery we went to this evening: (Ew, and change this horrible typeface). [[ After a few weeks on other things,...