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Andy Piper
Andy Piper

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Weekend tech plans?

I work in the tech industry, and tech is also one of my hobbies! (there are quite a few others...)

I'm constantly collecting projects, ideas, and new things I want to work on. For example, I probably won't get all of this done this weekend, but some of my plans are:

  • recabling my home office. I recently upgraded my home network backup and media storage (from a Netgear ReadyNAS 104, to a Synology DS920+), and I need to rearrange things to put that where it will be living; I also need more power connections for some Pis, and to take out some older machines. Finally, I really need to fix a double-NAT problem with my router and some of the kit from my ISP. Annoying!

  • I've been playing with an e-Paper display on a Pi Zero. The project is working fine, but I'm thinking about switching the Python library I'm using for the rendering, and improving the configurability of the code. I might also try running it in Micropython on a Pi Pico...

  • the weekly podcast that I co-host needs some more work on the website. We run on WordPress. Last weekend I did a bunch of cleanup and admin, but I have some ideas for some more improvements. Plus, I'll be writing the show notes and scheduling the new episode to post on Monday...

  • I have a retro games handheld (a GPi Case 2, containing a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4) that I want to finish setting up... ๐Ÿ‘พ

edit: added, because I just remembered it!

  • oh! Oh! also, I have all the parts to put together a PixelIt display, and I keep meaning to get that done, it looks super interesting ๐Ÿ’ก

Do you code or hack on tech projects at weekends? What are you working on? I'd love to hear more!

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I had a lazy day yesterday and mostly did some gaming on the Xbox, and some reading here on DEVโ€ฆ but, I have scheduled the podcast episode / blog post for tomorrow, and I did some reorg of network storage.

I also did some research into ideas for a LilyGo T-Display RP2040 board I have. On the hardware stuff, I often let myself get held back by not really wanting to do the soldering! I should get into thatโ€ฆ