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Brian Dorey
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Web designer, Raspberry Pi expansion board maker, smart home tech, VR gamer see more at https://linktr.ee/briandorey
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New batch of IO Pi Plus, a 32 channel GPIO Expander for the Raspberry Pi built on our DIY pick and place robot, order today from www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/54/io-pi-p...
IO Pi Plus, 32 channel GPIO Expander for the Raspberry Pi
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Productive morning on the allotment digging in a lot of weeds and compost into the main growing areas with the rotavator and clearing other areas of weeds #growyourown #allotment #ukplants
Allotment soil Allotment soil
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This. A thousand times this.
November 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The remarkable thing about enshittification isn’t that it happens, but that people keep using the products. Ahem…Twitter.
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Clearing the old runner bean plants from the allotment today and had a helper come down next to me to pick up some worms and bugs in the soil. #allotment #growyourown #organicfood
Runner bean plants on canes Runner bean plants removed Robin on soil Robin on soil
October 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Now the owner of a working 5 ¼ inch floppy drive to go with the BBC micro, just need to install the chips in the BBC to add the support. Using the greaseweazle and desktop computer we have been able to read some of the BBC floppy disks. New post soon on andrewdorey.com/
a working 5 ¼ inch floppy drive
October 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Facebook now wants me to pay to continue to use it without ads or continue as long as they can mine my info to target the ads. #meta
October 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Toolbox Tuesday - Want to find the value of capacitor codes ?

Try the Capacitor Code Calculator at AB Electronics in our Electronics Toolbox.

www.abelectronics.co.uk/tools/capaci...

#tech #technology #technews #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Here's the text you can copy+paste into the config page search bar:

browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.enable
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
October 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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AWS down, Reddit Down, Signal not logging in, great start to the week
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Learn how to use the 1 Wire Pi Zero or 1 Wire Pi Plus with a maxim integrated DS18S20 digital thermometer from the AB Electronics Knowledge Base

www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/9...

#tech #1-wire #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics
1 Wire Pi Plus with a maxim integrated DS18S20 digital thermometer
October 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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NO!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELITON LOOKS DOWN FROM HELL ON TO THERE OLD COMPUTER DISPLAYING "DA SHARE Z0NE" WEB PAGE , AND DA TEXT SAYS "I DONT WANT TO DISABLE MY AD BLOCKER, I DONT WANT TO ENTER MY EMAILL TO SEE MORE, I DONT WANT TO REACH THE END OF MY FREE ARTICLES, I WANT TO GO TO A WEB PAGE AND READ THE DAMB WEB PAGE " - THE PROMISE OF "GOING ON THE COMPUTER" HAS BECOME A PROCESS OF GETING BLASTED IN DA FACE WITH BULL SHIT WHILE YOUR TRYING TO LOOK STUFF UP, AND THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE SO THAT WE WOULDNT HAVE FUN FOR FREE, AND NOW THAT THEY RUINED ALL THE PUBLICATIONS AND WEB SITES, THERE TELLIN US "JUST ASK THE AI TO FIND SHIT FOR YOU" BUT WE ALREADY HAD AN APP THAT WOULD GIVE US INFOMATION THAT WE WANTED!!! IT WAS CALLED A FUCKEN WEB BROWSER!!!!! CAPTALISM MUST BE DESTROYED FOR THE USUAL REASONS BUT ALSO BECUASE IT RUINED THE COMPUTER FOR US!!! NO ONE LIKES THAT THEY BURNED THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA BUT WE HAD ANOTHER ONE 10 YEAR'S AGO AND INSTEAD OF 1 FIRE IT WAS 100000, PIECE BY PIECE, AND THEN THEY REPLACED THE DAMB CARD CATALOG WITH A COMPUTER THAT MAKES SHIT UP ,BUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND IM GOING TO THE WOODS NOW AND THEY DONT HAVE ADS THERE YET SO GO THERE WHILE YOU STILL CAN - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
June 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Indoor ride today on Zwift and did a London route which included rain, just like real life rides in the UK. Need to work on short spints for the 5 seconds watts power. #cycling #zwift
October 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Tried to use Wayback Machine on archive.org today to check an older website which isn’t available now and found that the site is blocked from UK users accessing the archive :(
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Working on a new blog post featuring some vintage Commodore calculators from the 1970s, coming soon on my brothers vintage tech blog at https://andrewdorey.com/ #vintage #classiccomputer
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Out enjoying the sunshine yesterday and planned to record one of our cycling routes on https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/things-to-do/sports-and-activities/cycling to include a video but the GoPro had gone flat since we last used it a week ago. Will try again when the sun appears again.
View across Poole harbour
October 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Caught a starlink satellites pass on the edge of our webcam early this morning over Swanage bay
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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New blog post, building a DIY bike rocker plate to use with a smart bike trainer to try to keep fit over the winter months when cycling indoors on #zwift and #mywhoosh and #rouvy https://www.briandorey.com/post/diy-bike-trainer-rocker-plate
Bike on smart trainer
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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abelectronics.bsky.social
Autumn Sale Alert!

The summer is over and the nights are drawing in. Perfect time to stock up for your next project.

Get up to 10% OFF Raspberry Pi development boards and accessories at AB Electronics UK!

abelectronics.co.uk

#RaspberryPi #Electronics #AutumnSale
Autumn Sale at AB Electronics UK
September 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Vintage tech time again with a parallel port Iomega Zip drive connected to a 20 year old thin client #vintagecomputer #iomega #zipdrive
September 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Legs are going to be sore tomorrow #zwift
September 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Installing Windows XP on a 20 year old thin client. Should I live dangerously and connect it to the internet?
Windows XP on an old computer.
September 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Tutorial Thursday - ADC Pi with ACS712 on Raspberry Pi
Using an ADC Pi with ACS712 30 Amp current sensor

https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/12/adc-pi-with-acs712

#tech #technology #technews #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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You can never have too much Ram #vintagecomputer #memory #ram
September 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM