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Andrew de Quincey's miscellaneous tech projects

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2026 12

  1. Brewing Beer and Mead in the Kitchen
  2. September 2026
  3. frank-micro BBC Micro Fruit Jam Builds + HSTX Video
  4. Porting a BBC Micro Emulator to the Adafruit Fruit Jam Entirely With Claude Code
  5. AI Usage and This Blog
  6. August 2026
  7. Drivemark: Using Claude Code to replace a paid service fast!
  8. Building a simple network intrusion detector
  9. July 2026
  10. Recycled Tables
  11. New Blog Architecture
  12. June 2026

2024 2

  1. picotherm: Controlling an OpenTherm Boiler with a Raspberry Pi Pico
  2. March 2024

2023 21

  1. Power Monitoring with a Raspberry Pi Pico
  2. Turning Bowls
  3. Afternoon Experiment with Veneer
  4. Hardening Steel
  5. December 2023
  6. Resin 3D Printing
  7. November 2023
  8. Lasercutting Lathe Toolbox
  9. August 2023
  10. Wood Turning Lathe!
  11. Making a Hammer
  12. June 2023
  13. Boring 3d Printing: Ceiling Cable Covers
  14. Two Wee Woodworking Tools
  15. April 2023
  16. Restoring a Table
  17. Another of my Vices
  18. Making a Moxon Vice
  19. Custom Shelves
  20. Workbench Build
  21. March 2023

2022 6

  1. Enamelling Experiments
  2. March 2022
  3. Home Made Holograms!
  4. February 2022
  5. Making a Pinecil case
  6. January 2022

2021 25

  1. Building a Drawing Machine
  2. December 2021
  3. A Map of Arrakis (Dune)
  4. Die Cutter Project 2: A Map of Barsoom
  5. Playing With a Die Cutter
  6. October 2021
  7. Useful Kiln Tools + Beeper Upgrade
  8. Succeeding with Prometheus Copper Clay!
  9. Prometheus Copper Clay Experiments
  10. Upgrading my Jewellery Kiln
  11. May 2021
  12. Bring Me The Head of Emperor Trajan!
  13. Taking a Google Stadia Controller Apart and Dumping its ROM
  14. April 2021
  15. Identifying a thermocouple
  16. The Perils of cheap Ebay stuff, or, why doesn't my MAX31855 thermocouple board work?
  17. What's eating my Cotyledon Orbiculata?
  18. March 2021
  19. Mini Tesla Coil kit from Ebay! (playing Bohemian Rhapsody)
  20. Writing A Speaker Horn Music Visualiser
  21. 1920s Spotify Speaker Horn
  22. New Tools!
  23. Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
  24. Investigating RCA CED VideoDiscs
  25. February 2021

2020 29

  1. Glass Frit/Powder Sifters
  2. Fused Glass/Metal Experiments
  3. Fused Glass Attempt # 1
  4. New Tool! Jewellery Kiln
  5. Cyanotype Attempt #2
  6. Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum Wallisii) Pollen
  7. October 2020
  8. Cyanotype Attempt #1
  9. Epoxy Resin Casting Attempt #3
  10. Making a UV Exposure Box
  11. Moles, Avogadro's Number, and Atomic Mass Units
  12. Making Skeletonised Leaves
  13. Knitting Machine: Needle Router Working!
  14. Making a Copper Leaf and Perspex Lampshade
  15. Epoxy Resin Casting Attempt #2
  16. Boiling Water in a Vacuum at Room Temperature
  17. Epoxy Resin Casting Attempt #1
  18. September 2020
  19. Knitting Machine: Needle Movement Controller First Test Print
  20. Knitting Machine: Needle Movement Model
  21. Knitting Machine: Needle Movement Controller Design
  22. Nikon DSLR to Lomo Biolam Microscope Adapter
  23. Restoring a 1977 USSR Lomo Biolam Microscope
  24. Knitting Machine: Needle Movement Analysis
  25. Knitting Machine Project
  26. My Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus 3D Printer Upgrades
  27. New Project Items Arrived
  28. Turn it Off and On Again
  29. August 2020

2014 5

  1. Interactive fiction
  2. Mobile development on Android and iOS
  3. MongoDb optimisation for scale
  4. PHP MongoDb replicaset gotcha
  5. March 2014

2012 4

  1. Return to the joggler
  2. February 2012
  3. A Walk in the Wind
  4. January 2012

2011 33

  1. check_fus
  2. GAN / UMA / WIFI Calling / Signal Booster on the Galaxy S II
  3. Duplicity
  4. October 2011
  5. HD DVB-T2 terrestrial TV using the PCTV Nanostick 290e
  6. June 2011
  7. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
  8. Beltane Pillars Panorama
  9. May 2011
  10. Beltane 2011
  11. London Trip
  12. Ullapool Trip
  13. CARGO @ The Edinburgh Mela 2010
  14. Gormleys
  15. April 2011
  16. kindle devkey problems?
  17. March 2011
  18. Kindle 3.1 jailbreak
  19. Kindle auto-updates
  20. Kindle firmware 3.1
  21. Pickit2 Logic Analyser in pypickit
  22. Merging developer keystores on the Kindle
  23. Switching to Virtualbox and getting Snow Leopard to work in a VM
  24. HTC Desire HD
  25. ipsec-tools / racoon support for Checkpoint VPN-1 proprietary XAUTH authentication
  26. February 2011
  27. Liveview PCB front
  28. redbus update
  29. Huffington post article on kindle hacking
  30. Liveview case clips
  31. Liveview teardown
  32. Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking: complete
  33. January 2011

2010 71

  1. Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking!
  2. jrename 0.2
  3. December 2010
  4. redbus: annoyance with small screen devices
  5. KIF 0.5
  6. November 2010
  7. Mangle 0.2
  8. Mangle - a better manga reader for the kindle
  9. KIF 0.4
  10. KIF 0.3
  11. KIF 0.2.1
  12. KIF: next steps
  13. redbus: workaround core map crash on 1.6/2.1 devices
  14. Edinburgh Bus Tracker Update
  15. KIF: an infocom text adventure interpreter for the kindle
  16. jrename: a Java deobfuscator
  17. October 2010
  18. Kindle 3: My developer kindlet is working!
  19. Kindle: progress
  20. Kindle 3 hacking
  21. Streetview
  22. September 2010
  23. android market developer console improving
  24. July 2010
  25. redbus released and dodgy data
  26. redbus mostly complete
  27. Dunbar trip
  28. Aberlady Beach
  29. Quickie geek update
  30. redbus 1.0.17
  31. Edinburgh Bus Millenium Edition!
  32. Edinburgh Bus Tracker app has vanished!!
  33. June 2010
  34. Time to start on USB host again hopefully!
  35. redbus 1.0.9
  36. Bus competition
  37. rEdBus: My First Android Application (Edinburgh Bus Tracker)
  38. New joggler sound patch with external audio crackle fix
  39. Android userspace development and USB summary
  40. May 2010
  41. Today's pic - view from grassmere
  42. Today's pic - speedtree
  43. USB patch v23 - very close to working
  44. Dr Moebius 2
  45. More progress!
  46. Android OTG support
  47. Android USB progress
  48. Joggler/openpeak backlight and light sensor code
  49. EFI firmware image analyser / dumper / ripper
  50. Distracted by the joggler ....
  51. April 2010
  52. Hero USB update
  53. Lets get this show on the road
  54. Finally, some android USB progress
  55. Checkpoint SecurRemote VPN PSK patch for racoon
  56. Dr Moebius at the Catacombs of Curiosity
  57. March 2010
  58. switching to usb function
  59. Some progress of a sort
  60. G1 USB host working!
  61. Motorla Droid USB host
  62. usb storage working!
  63. HTC Hero (MSM7201) USB host mode
  64. February 2010
  65. FIMO slugs
  66. Mains Power Fun!
  67. working 32wlt68 tv control solution
  68. The TV saga continues!
  69. HDCP and the Toshiba 32wlt68 LCD TV
  70. Ofcom consultation about BBC DRM
  71. January 2010

2009 77

  1. Today's good deed
  2. December 2009
  3. Lake District
  4. Lamplight in the Evening
  5. Some IR photos from Kendal
  6. Android auto-phone backup part 3
  7. Android auto-phone backup part 2
  8. ARM rsync binary for android
  9. Edinburgh by Night
  10. November 2009
  11. Last night's etching project
  12. Etched Brass Domino Mask
  13. October 2009
  14. Tantallon castle
  15. Coffee table upgrade
  16. Power Plant
  17. Etch tank v3.0
  18. September 2009
  19. Dreams of Steam
  20. Some pictures from Glasgow by Gaslight!
  21. Some pictures from Edinburgh in the Haar
  22. Success!
  23. And now for something a little more sophisticated
  24. Android APK resource extractor
  25. August 2009
  26. Vinyl dye
  27. Leeds
  28. A trip round the botanics with a D50IR
  29. Camera upgrade complete!
  30. July 2009
  31. Etching success #1
  32. Thermal transfer attempt #2
  33. Thermal transfer attempt #1
  34. The Edinburgh Etch calculations
  35. All Hail the Edinburgh Etch
  36. A trip to castle Gloom
  37. June 2009
  38. Hardware resurrection of the N770
  39. Wait a moment...
  40. here's lookin' at you, kid
  41. Easy custom shirt design/manufacturing website
  42. May 2009
  43. Amazing colour pictures from 1930s/40s america + scopedog
  44. PTP digital camera control
  45. eframe mass storage
  46. eframe firmware dump
  47. eframe ftp server
  48. Binaural test 2: Beltane drummers
  49. pre beltane 2009 1
  50. goblin ha'
  51. Robotic aquatic/flying penguins
  52. eframe RSS working
  53. bt eframe progress
  54. Binaural rig
  55. The way home
  56. BT Eframe 1000 progress
  57. Mysterious pads identified
  58. BT eFrame 1000
  59. Style update
  60. pypickit
  61. April 2009
  62. Bzzzz XBees arrived
  63. XBee wireless point to point link project ideas...
  64. Gilbert U238 Atomic Energy Lab Kit (1950s)
  65. Geektalk
  66. Motherboard SPI bios recovery
  67. Granton harbour
  68. Crab
  69. Upgrade
  70. Magnet shop
  71. March 2009
  72. Snow
  73. Docks etc
  74. February 2009
  75. Tum te tum
  76. This morning's hacking: KDE 4.2 HDMI HDTV Overscan Fix
  77. January 2009

2008 47

  1. Success!
  2. November 2008
  3. Quote of the evening
  4. autumn leaves HDR
  5. Hmm 2
  6. October 2008
  7. A wee bit of detective work
  8. Bus crash, York Place
  9. TV recorder redesign
  10. September 2008
  11. Pre festival wander
  12. Dean Gallery
  13. Gig
  14. August 2008
  15. messing about with HDR
  16. Etching, dear?
  17. Wickerman pics
  18. Etching Chemicals
  19. Party pics!
  20. The evening's etching update
  21. Etching research
  22. Thin brass plate
  23. July 2008
  24. geocaching
  25. Success!!
  26. June 2008
  27. Cramond
  28. Photos from last weekend
  29. Beautiful Python
  30. photos from the botanics and inverleith park
  31. Wee camera
  32. May 2008
  33. Shadowtrees
  34. Symbian phone hacked
  35. ipodsync python script
  36. St Bernards well photos
  37. April 2008
  38. Terrarium
  39. Chinese lantern photos
  40. Phorm, ISP monitoring, and privacy
  41. Crochet
  42. March 2008
  43. Online supermarket wow
  44. New photos
  45. February 2008
  46. New Year
  47. January 2008

2007 9

  1. Wii console finally hacked!
  2. Linux Ricoh XD support
  3. Abrasive waterjet machining
  4. Ricoh media reader under linux
  5. December 2007
  6. Column oriented DBMS
  7. gadgetgadgetgadgetgadget
  8. Bluetooth sniffing
  9. October 2007