Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
Latest Posts
I don't much care for how hot my laptops run, before the cooling system takes action to bring the temperature under control. What can be done about that?
The L298N is a convenient and inexpensive H-bridge motor controller, which interfaces nicely with the Pi Pico.
FastMail is a good, Google-free provider of e-mail, calendar services, and the like. But it isn't the only one, and it's due for a price increase in 2025. Is it time to switch?
Despite eBay's claim, it isn't now "free to sell" for private sellers. Here's why.
MX and antiX are both Linux variants that offer some hope to people who want to keep their old-ish computers running. Both tip-toe around the systemd rabbit hole, but in different ways. But which is better?
We can play sampled audio from a Pi Pico, using the built-in PWM controller, a single GPIO pin, and a handful of discrete electronic components. It's cheap and simple -- but how well does it work?
An exploration of various aspects of English law, as they apply to the owners and managers of small, private woodlands.
What offers the convenience of a cassette tape, and the sound quality of a CD? Digital Audio Tape (DAT) does. So why wasn't it more successful?
Do Meshtastic, MeshCore and the like revolutionize off-grid communication?
This is the first of (at least) two articles on loading and running arbitrary executable code into RAM on the Pico, and running it.
BMW's C1 was an odd combination of car and motorcycle. It seemed to offer the advantages of both, and yet it wasn't a commercial success. Why?
AC circuit analysis relies heavily on complex numbers, and the concept of 'complex impedance'. But why? What actually is a complex impedance?
3D movie technology is fading away. Perhaps we should be asking why movie studios embraced it so fervently, when it had already tanked in the 1950s?
The bicycle that did for our legs what the Sony Walkman did for our ears.
Pimoroni's 'GFX Pack' is an inexpensive, low-power LCD display, with modest resolution. This article describes my experience using and programming it.