Footleg

Going for the danger dangle I see!

Now I just need to decide what to bring! See you all there.

Potton Pi & Pints Raspberry Jam - 1st November 2025 Fancy doing some electronics/computing stuff in a relaxed, social atmosphere? Fancy a chat with fellow geeky-type people?

If you'd like to pre-register for Potton Pi and Pints on Saturday, 1st November, please head over to Eventbrite and grab a free ticket. #raspberrypi #raspberryjam #bedfordshire #cambridgeshire #potton
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All - Pimoroni

w00p! @pimoroni have my new Series[D] boards in stock, as well as a bunch of other UM products!
shop.pimoroni.com/collections/...
Please support them (and me) by plundering (legally) some of kit from them - thanks!
#maker #makershelpingmakers #electronics

Pirate radio from @pimoroni.com c.2018 repurposed to play Swift bird calls in the morning and evening. Learned some crontab tricks to get the script to run and stop at scheduled times. Impressed the hardware works on a modern install of Pi OS Buster lite after all these years. #nature #RaspberryPi

Happy Birthday! 🎈

a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane . ALT: a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane .

Summer sale! It's pretty darn hot here in Sheffield-on-sea so if you use the code "SCORCHER" during checkout then you'll get 20% off your order (excluding bare Raspberry Pi boards and shipping)! Use this link to auto apply the discount: shop.pimoroni.com/discount/SCO...

Send in your new cat after it.

They are clever animals, and found a way to exploit a weakness you overlooked in your AI cat deterrent system. Enjoy your new overlord.

Aren’t there numerous portable home air cooling units you could review?

Bashed my leg a week ago which I didn't think was too bad until I spent all of Saturday on my feet. Now it has swollen up again and gone yellow and purple. Waiting for verdict from GP e-consultation now. Energy has crashed today so have not been able to work or concentrate. Fell asleep in a chair.

Insurance have refunded our family holiday which we had to cancel due to daughter being advised it was unsafe for them to fly. Not sure when we will be allowed to regain insurance cover for future holidays now due to it being a pre-existing condition. So no going abroad for us now this year.

In amongst it there has been some real good things, but I really would like the bad stuff to give us a break now.

Went away this weekend for a reunion with university friends from 30 years ago. Had a great time. But we hadn’t even got home before my sister called to let me know my Dad’s health had taken a serious turn and this evening my Mum let me know he has been put on end of life care now. So not good.

So it was small beans when the heating system at home sprung a leak a couple of weeks ago and my electric car charger died. But I began to think I was cursed when the plumber failed to turn up and it turned out he was in A&E with a concussion. So still no hot water at home.

Coming to terms with my car writing itself off after spending £2000 on repairs last year, followed by my house showing subsidence problems. All put into perspective by my daughter’s unexpected sudden emergency admission into hospital last month. They’re doing OK now with treatment but still a worry.

rpi-pico/pico-cpp at main · Footleg/rpi-pico Programs developed to run on the Raspberry Pi Pico and other boards using the RP2040 chip - Footleg/rpi-pico

Pico C++ graphics fans may be excited to hear I just pushed my example of using psram for a full screen double buffer on the #Pimoroni #Presto to my repo. See the readme here for details as the checkout of submodules is a bit messed up in a dependency. github.com/Footleg/rpi-...

Newer sewer connection which appeared not to be taking any flow is not due to a leak. It turns out they never connected it to the house and the original sewer connection is still in use. Very strange that previous owners had all the work done to put it in and then it was never connected to house.

Progress today! Insurer have agree to pay higher quote for non-chemical treatment of tree stumps which I pushed for seeing as neighbours keep horses on land next to trees being removed. So that work can proceed. Drain survey turned everything found in last survey on it's head. Now makes more sense.

This was my early teenagerhood on the C64!

Drainage work being done at home, leak in heating and the plumber fails to turn up as a head injury put them in hospital. I took my mind off it all by spilling a full mug of coffee over my desk. Keyboard no longer works. Replacement has strange tilt and no legs to adjust it.

How's your day going?

Mounting clip for the sensor stick and Presto from Pimoroni by Dr Footleg | Download free STL model | Printables.com Mount the sensor stick add-on to the base of your Pimoroni Presto. Uses two M2.5 screws and heat set threaded inserts. | Download free 3D printable STL models

I even got the 3D print I designed to mount the sensor stick onto the Presto published:
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rpi-pico/pico-cpp at main · Footleg/rpi-pico Programs developed to run on the Raspberry Pi Pico and other boards using the RP2040 chip - Footleg/rpi-pico

A productive day sorting out all my @pimoroni.com #presto C++ code and publishing it finally. Including my touchscreen and accelerometer drivers and a set of example projects to show them in use. See the presto-projects folder here:
github.com/Footleg/rpi-...

rpi-pico/pico-cpp at main · Footleg/rpi-pico Programs developed to run on the Raspberry Pi Pico and other boards using the RP2040 chip - Footleg/rpi-pico

It's all there now, in the presto-projects folder:
github.com/Footleg/rpi-...

The service which auto-runs the robot python program started to throw an authorisation error. It needed a new line adding into the service section of the service description file. I threw the error at co-pilot which provided the answer for what to try to fix it.

I haven’t quite got it all organised to upload to GitHub yet. But I will get on with that and let you know when it is up there.

I just updated one of my most read blog posts when my Raspberry Pi robot stopped working on Bookworm after I updated the OS to the latest this weekend.
adventures-with-pi.blogspot.com/2021/08/runn...

Soldered 64 @pimoroni.com old school Unicorn hats for my #GalacticUnicorn project, I soldered 3 pins to the power and data pins to be able to access the Neopixels without the 40 pin header.
The way I have stacked the hats looks like I'm maker poker with Neopixels chips :-) I raise you 4096 pixels!

I'm at Malvern Kit car show this weekend with Hacky Racers, comparing notes with the Cyclekart builders