Charlie Birks
@charlie.daft.games
Writes a lot of code, sometimes it even works. May or may not actually exist.
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Writing is not one of my skills.
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Something tells me I'm going to need to improve the wiring...
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Something tells me I'm going to need to improve the wiring...
🤔 On this display I can disable the text mode hack (forcing char width to 8 instead of 9)
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🤔 On this display I can disable the text mode hack (forcing char width to 8 instead of 9)
Well, I got red and green...
(Also, better view of the thing now that I'm not fighting the lighting)
(Also, better view of the thing now that I'm not fighting the lighting)
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Well, I got red and green...
(Also, better view of the thing now that I'm not fighting the lighting)
(Also, better view of the thing now that I'm not fighting the lighting)
Not having the breakout did not stop me for long 😆
(Now I just need to dig up enough jumper wires to connect the rest of the colour bits)
(Now I just need to dig up enough jumper wires to connect the rest of the colour bits)
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Not having the breakout did not stop me for long 😆
(Now I just need to dig up enough jumper wires to connect the rest of the colour bits)
(Now I just need to dig up enough jumper wires to connect the rest of the colour bits)
There's a project idea in here somewhere 🤔
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
There's a project idea in here somewhere 🤔
With the power of sleep_us(10) I managed to boot windows from a hard drive... In a really overcomplicated way 😆
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
With the power of sleep_us(10) I managed to boot windows from a hard drive... In a really overcomplicated way 😆
Apparently disk corruption is where I was going, whoops.
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Apparently disk corruption is where I was going, whoops.
Now with less mess (and risk of pulling the whole thing off the desk)!
Also without CD drive again...
Also without CD drive again...
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Now with less mess (and risk of pulling the whole thing off the desk)!
Also without CD drive again...
Also without CD drive again...
Managed to run two drives at once by powering the thing from a pi 5 PSU.
(The huge mess gets messier 😆)
(The huge mess gets messier 😆)
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Managed to run two drives at once by powering the thing from a pi 5 PSU.
(The huge mess gets messier 😆)
(The huge mess gets messier 😆)
Using this to back up the drive may have been a bad move... 🤔
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Using this to back up the drive may have been a bad move... 🤔
@solder.party Quite pleased that I didn't miss the window where both this and stamp XLs were available!
(Post made me think the pirates were bridged here for a moment...)
(Post made me think the pirates were bridged here for a moment...)
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
@solder.party Quite pleased that I didn't miss the window where both this and stamp XLs were available!
(Post made me think the pirates were bridged here for a moment...)
(Post made me think the pirates were bridged here for a moment...)
By copying a bunch of code from what the board was originally supposed to do I can easily make it do USB storage... not that a hard disk over USB 1.1 is going to have great performance 😆
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
By copying a bunch of code from what the board was originally supposed to do I can easily make it do USB storage... not that a hard disk over USB 1.1 is going to have great performance 😆