Michael Horne
@recantha.bsky.social
CFML/JS/SQL web developer and Director of Systems Development. Family man, Christian, amateur theatre director/performer, occasional maker with electronics such as Raspberry Pi and Picos! Big fan of old radio series Journey into Space and also #3Dprinting.
I created a new free web tool for my SPOKE board that lets you configure exactly what each touch sensor does without the need to go near the code. Set individual pins to be midi notes or chords or cc inputs or have them be keyboard or mouse commands. www.spokeboard.com/play
Now playing 👇 Well seeing as it’s the actual day and all that! This is a tremendous adaptation by the radiophonic workshop, incredibly atmospheric and sad youtu.be/ZS7LPi72HCI?...
August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury - BBC Workshop
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[BLOGGED] Building a Cell Phone Accessible Home Security System Using Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and Zero Cam Read more: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2025/02/15/building-a-cell-phone-accessible-home-security-system-using-raspberry-pi-zero-2-and-zero-cam/
Building a Cell Phone Accessible Home Security System Using Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and Zero Cam
I was looking to create a simple home security system. The main requirements were being able to access a camera remotely available 24x7 low cost no subscriptions available via cell phone After a look around, the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and Zero Cam looked suitable. In this blog post, I document the software, hardware, pain points, and resolutions to build a camera stream that you can access remotely 24x7. ~ Hardware To build the surveillance solution, you need the following hardware: 1 x Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W - (£17) 1 x Zero Cam - Camera for Raspberry Pi Zero – (£15.00) 1 x Pibow Case for Raspberry Pi Zero 2W – (£6.00) 1 x Official Raspberry Pi Zero UK Power Supply – (£7.60) 1 x Raspberry Pi OS Pre-installed Micro SD Card 32GB - (£9.90) Total cost for this solution: £55.50. ~ Software The following software is required: Raspberry Pi OS Rpicam VNC Viewer The rpicam library may come installed with the OS. ~ Assembling and Testing the Camera As
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I'm sure we can all agree how tragic that would be. Anyway...
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Coming up in August: Bury The Hatchet True crime meets live folk gig. Wanton A provocative new play about women's stories and who profits from them. Jane Eyre The five-time Tony nominated musical makes its UK premiere. Ride The Cyclone and The Jonathan Larson Project continue until 22 Aug.
Hi everyone. My sales have been woeful this month. 😔 Can I ask a favour please, can you visit my shop & browse. 🙏 No need to buy anything.. I'm putting this request on all my socials to see where the visits mostly come from. ❤️ Here's my shop; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦
ICYMI, here's this week's Movie Book Club! Remember to come back on Monday for the next one! youtu.be/j-7LrAuycxw?...
The story behind 1991's most infamous box office disaster | Movie Book Club
Hudson Hawk is one of the biggest flops of modern cinema and there's a great book by David Hughes that digs into how that happened. Simon explains more. 00:00 Movie Book Club! 00:14 David Hughes'…
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Well! That was splendid. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Meticulously researched, stunningly written, characters to root for and a romance to appreciate. What's not to like?
Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
If you call a meeting at relatively short notice and one of the main opposition party leaders can't go AT ALL and the other one has to join online....maybe reschedule? Just a thought, Mr Burnham. #facepalm
🎂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...
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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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... Check it out! And if you enjoy it, hit subscribe 🔔, I'm nearly at 100k 🚀 and would love to have you on board for everything I've got planned this year 💛✨ youtu.be/yDItCLecx3k
I Recreated the Terminator 2 EASY MONEY Scene // Using a real 1989 Atari Portfolio
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You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w agoElaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)
Yes. A good example is the financial havoc this Government & the previous Tory Government is inflicting on the university sector through restricting international student numbers.
From a flat sheet of copper to a hand-made bowl. 🔨🥣 While East Essex Hackspace was out in force at #EMF2026, I managed to grab a place on a coppersmithing workshop with Urban Crafts Foundation. #HeritageCrafts #CopperSmithing #Maker #Metalworking #Craftsmanship
Available for £9.99 if you fancy an ebook! Offer ends Friday! I loved every minute of writing it, working with people's fascinating memories of films they maybe shouldn't have been watching back in the 1980s when they were kids!
Andy Burnham joins Robert Peel, Gordon Brown and Liz Truss on a list of prime ministers whose surnames are also culinary imperatives
Oh I did wonder about his credentials... But still... Weird
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w agoAndy Burnham makes former Defence Secretary John Healey his Chancellor, contrary to the many earlier briefings that it would be Shabana Mahmood. Healey was previously a Treasury minister under Gordon Brown
Jurassic Park is one of the most important films of our time as it speaks on the subject of the responsibility that must go hand in hand with technology. Even just the lines "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" and...
“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak
