Gadgetoid
@gadgetoid.com
he/him/they/them - Tech at Gadgetoid.com, (Micro)Python wrangler at @Pimoroni.com, documenter of Pi’s at pinout.xyz and pico.pinout.xyz, perpetually exhausted parent, possibly some kind of artist, dabble in music… Oh and a ~50% deaf, ADHD mess.
Added a turn limit on seeded mode: dots.gadgetoid.com Plus raised scores from n^3 to n^4 so they're more exciting. On-ramp for those who prefer a puzzle: dots.gadgetoid.com?puzzle=sapling
Dots
Draw a line through dots of one colour to pop them out of existence.
dots.gadgetoid.com
Migrated my blog to a new stack and made the *tiniest* visual tweaks to fix all the stuff that's been bugging me for years. gadgetoid.com
Gadgetoid
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First fit of my 3D printed Land Rover fire engine back, and I’m pretty happy with that. Now I need to add space for a switch, and mount the speaker on top for the nee-naw sound effect.
If Bohemian Rhapsody didn’t kill people’s desire to make new music, GenAI sure as fuck won’t 🤣
Lightsail's own Wordpress template is absolute fucking garbage. Shell exec for retrieving a DB password should have been the point I threw it in the trash and build a stack from scratch.
Lights off. Lights on. I’ve finally got a (largely) glued assembly. Tomorrow I’m going to get into the code on the controller to adjust the brightness of each of the @pimoroni.com Tiny FX outputs - and turn off the indicator lights on the board. #BlueLights
These are all rendered on RP2350 based hardware with Badgeware’s graphics API.
What do people want in a mechanical keyboard LCD, or ambient desktop system status display?
Not me speedrunning from "what's this bullshit clock drawing code doing?" to "are we even using the right GC block size for our object representation?"
Today’s progress: still all held together with tape and blu tack, but we do have what now looks like a Land Rover.
Presenting a new version of my thirteen year old JS clone of an iPhone game which then got a port to 32blit/PicoSystem and now back to JS again. Hit pause to find many settings and gameplay modes you might miss. Puzzles abound! Warning: heavily assisted by GenAI. gadgetoid.github.io/dots/?seed
Dots
Draw a line through dots of one colour to pop them out of existence.
gadgetoid.github.io
2026 and we still don have bins that take them fuckin selves out jesus
i sure am doing a lot of typing for a guy whose right arm still feels like i fell asleep on it
*casually pushes up commits that refer to him in the third person because they validate his hard won intuition*
It's hard to reconcile the utility of GenAI to beat my ADHD-addled brain into submission with the fact it would have basically subsumed every little odd job and chance interaction that got me where I am today. Being paid to build shitty one page websites to drive commission-based sales. ha!
Me - half deaf - exploring using musical tones as a way to make a puzzle game accessible 😆
y'know a valid critique of conversational genAI supplanting structured dialogue in games might be that it strips the game of artistic direction and intent, and no matter how hard you try to keep it on the rails folks gonna be posting screenshots of your character screaming %&$^^@ &@@*^!£ *@&£.
🎂It's our birthday! We've just turned 14, and we're having a sale! 💰Save up to 40% on 1,449 products in our store. Including 25% off Picade, 35% off LiPo Amigo Pro, and 25% all of our Badgeware boards. 📅But, be quick! The birthday sale ends on August 5 11:59PM BST. blog.pimoroni.com/its-our-birt...
It's our birthday — Save up to 40%!
Pimoroni began back in 2012 with the aim of selling laser cut acrylic cases for the Raspberry Pi. Yes, in 2012 our Pibow cases were our first and only product. Fast forward to 2026, and we're now 14 ...
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I see I have made the mistake of eating a food and now my stomach is a ballon giraffe
Milo in vampire getup and eyeshadow tho. Shiii Dvrn da url be lookin youtu.be/Mm2kdGDL9QQ
The Vampire Graves of Europe
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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