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Letter From Stafford, Three

30th March 2023 Going Postal 0

I don’t get out as much any more now that I’ve learned to do my work online. Slouching behind a steering wheel 200 miles a day has been replaced by slouching at a screen waiting [more…]

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Automations in my Home: Conclusion

20th March 2023 El Cnutador 0

Welcome back to Cnutelectronics! It comprises the same bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm, poor research, pointy metal things as Cnuteneering, and also adds the additional danger of very hot soldering irons. We left this project with [more…]

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Automations In My Home* Part II

6th March 2023 El Cnutador 0

* And outside. Home automation seems all the rage in puffinland with various articles describing the setting up, care and feeding of home automations. We’ve had Automations in my home and Smart Radiators, and I [more…]

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How MRI Works

19th December 2022 Going Postal 0

I guess quite a few of you will have had to undergo a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan over the past few years.  As you lie in the machine’s tube with headphones on to muffle the [more…]

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Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Five

28th November 2022 El Cnutador 0

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a while – you may want to refresh your memory [more…]

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The Pocket Calculator

27th September 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction Some of you may know that the Doc has been ill after falling off of a ladder. A very bad accident and I was lucky not to break anything (other than my confidence at [more…]

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Automations In My Home

1st August 2022 El Cnutador 0

Last year I moved into a new house. On moving in I tried to get the Hive heating system up and running so I could control it from my phone. The previous occupants had left [more…]

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Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Four

25th July 2022 El Cnutador 0

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a while – you may want to refresh your memory [more…]

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A visit to Kuala Lumpur

29th June 2022 well_chuffed 0

Back in the 80s and 90s in my IT life I did a lot of work on something called platform migrations. If your eyes haven’t already glazed over imagine taking Windoze programs and automatically converting [more…]

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