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🌠 2012 Supernova: Everything That’s Scientifically Wrong With It

When Hollywood blows up the wrong star.

ereg, Matt Jenkins

A Mighty Rolling Thunder

A Mighty Rolling Thunder By Kerry Alan Denney Two spirit hordes break through from another dimension, and half the world’s population vanishes. The spirits possess the survivors, dividing them into tw...

Audible Fantasy Fiction

10 Apr 2024

ereg, Matt Jenkins

Echoes of a Song

Echoes of a Song Legacy of the Mask Tales By A. L. Butcher A dozen tumultuous years after the dramatic events at the Paris Opera House Raoul, Comte de Chagny is still haunted by the mysterious Opera G...

Audible Fiction Romance

10 Apr 2024

ereg, Matt Jenkins

The While Loop

Welcome to the first of my basic introduction to programming tutorials. In these tutorials I aim to introduce the beginner programmer (of such devices as the Arduino) to proper ways of programming. Al...

24 Jul 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

Network booting DOS with iPXE and iSCSI

I deal with a number of older bits of hardware on my test bench, and to that end I have a "testbench" computer - an old P4 system that's barebones on my desk. Into that I plug in anything I want to te...

24 May 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

Why I think RetroBright is bad

OK, I'm sure we all would love to restore our yellowed electronics back to their former glory in the original colour, and there's numerous retro electronics fans across the world that do just that usi...

24 May 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

SSH Tunnel: The simplest VPN

I don't know about you, but I have a reasonably complex network setup. I have my home WiFi network, which is pretty normal. Within that I then also have a local wired Ethernet network on (and around) ...

24 May 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

USB 3.0 Blues?

So I recently wanted to capture the video output from an HDMI device. For that I thought I'd tap up eBay and see what was cheap from China at the moment. I found a seller that was selling two differen...

24 May 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

Faulty Chinese PowerBank PCBs

I have just taken delivery of a batch of USB C 2A powerbank charger + boost circuits from a seller on AliExpress. China churns out millions of these circuits every year, so you'd think they'd be good ...

24 May 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

OS X: Why X?

Ok, let me start out by saying this is going to be a page filled with supposition, guess work and, above all, plenty of cynicism. Don't believe anything you read here, it is only the biased and cynica...

24 May 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

New Website

So... This is our new website. Whaddayathink? Isn't it spangly and posh? There's quite a few things from the old website that aren't here now, but to be honest who really needed them? If you had an ac...

24 May 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

Reprogramming a new uPR v4 board (with sound) using PICkit2 in Windows

Reprogramming one of the newer redesigned Pulse Rifle boards (with sound version only, mind) with a new firmware is pretty simple in Windows. Step one is to install the right software. You need to fir...

24 May 2023 Our blog

ereg, Matt Jenkins

Going Virtual

I recently decided to rebuild my entire computer system and go to a fully virtualized arrangement, including GPU passthrough, etc.. And what a fight it was. After a lot of googling and finding out dif...

24 May 2023 Our blog

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