Charging your battery to 100% every night and then running it down to 0% is widely known to be bad for phone batteries, but unfortunately Android does not offer any way to stop charging your phone before it is full.

I recently picked up a new ESP32 C6 board for playing with IoT ideas. It is quite amazing how many features these things have given their low price. As you can see by the photo, it can be plugged directly into a battery and includes solar charging circuits so it is trivial to build an outdoor data logger.

Making coffee is hard It looks easy when you go into a cafe and order a flat white, but learning enough to make decent espresso at home is time consuming. The issue is the number of variables you have to deal with.

It has been years since I tried any BSDs and I have been given a couple of old laptops so I thought they would be perfect to have a quick play with FreeBSD.

IKEA have these lovely remote control units for pairing with their various devices, and the wonderful thing is that they are quite easy to re-purpose to control anything. They send messages using the Zigbee protocol so all you have to do is get a Zigbee receiver and intercept the messages.

An 80’s classic, this handheld gaming machine suffered a lot of abuse and needed a new joystick. I searched and failed to find a suitable replacement so I had to implement a workaround to get the old game going.

I have been slowly improving my pizza skills over the last few months. Partially inspired by this great pizza making video and with the help of a good friend of mine supplying me with a sourdough starter.