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Libbybot – a posable remote presence bot made from a Raspberry Pi 3 – updates
A couple of people have asked me about my presence-robot-in-a-lamp, libbybot – unsurprising at the moment maybe – so I’ve updated the code in github to use the most recent RTCMultiConnection (webRTC)...
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This is probably pretty niche. tl;dr: you can keep gadget mode working on the Pi Zero with Balena’s soft-AP mode if you disable dhcpcd only for wifi (see how below). Jasmine, Henry and I are doing a...
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Sock-puppet – an improved, simpler presence robot
Makevember and lockdown have encouraged me to make an improved version of libbybot, which is a physical version of a person for remote participation. I’m trying to think of a better name – she’s not...
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ESP32 M5StickC, https, websockets, and Slack
I got one of these lovely M5StickCs for a present, and had a play with it as part of Makevember. I wanted to make a “push puppet” (one of those toys that you push upwards and they collapse) that...
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Sparkfun Edge, MacOS X, FTDI
More for my reference than anything else. I’ve been trying to get the toolchain set up to use a Sparkfun Edge. I had the Edge, the Beefy3 FTDI breakout, and a working USB cable. Blurry pic of cats...
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Time squish
I keep seeing these two odd time effects in my life and wondering if they are connected. The first is that my work-life has become either extremely intense – and I don’t mean long hours, I mean...
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Interactive Flowerbots and legobots with a bit of machine vision
I made a bunch of robots recently building on some of the ideas from libbybot and as an excuse to play with some esp32 cams that Tom introduced me to in the midst of his Gobin Frenzy. The esp32s cams...
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Updated real_libby GPT-2 chatbot
real_libby, my GPT-2 retrained, slack chatbot hosted on a raspberry pi 4 eventually corrupted the SD card. Then I couldn’t find her brain (I could only find business-slack real_libby who is completely...
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#Mayke Day 4 – TTN and LoRaWAN – TiL
Tarim and I have been trying to get a LoRaWAN network up and running in Bristol using some of the old Bristol Wireless antenna locations. First step for me was in January when we got together and...
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TIL: Gifski
For a presentation at work where it’s tricky to add video but an image is ok, gifski worked brilliantly for converting a video to a gif. Even with the defaults it was fine. I needed to tweak it a bit...
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