Publishing Director for @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social. I play with Ataris, electronics, & digital fabrication @ RI Computer Museum. I also organize Providence Geeks & other Rhode Island tech/maker events.
Macintosh System 6.0.8 running on an #AtariST 520STE with Spectre GCR! I don't yet have a working floppy cable, so these instructions were just what I needed to set up a bootable image on an SD card: http://obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com/2013/04/atari-st-ultrasatan-spectre-mac.html
The instructions are for Ultrasatan but work fine with ACSI2SD.
Spectre GCR just arrived (with ROMs!). Looks like the cable is modded to work directly with a floppy drive which sounds good to me, considering I've put Goteks in all my STs. Can't wait to get this thing up and running.
Maker Faire Providence returns after a long hiatus on September 7, 2024. I'll be volunteering with the Rhode Island Computer Museum to put this on and hope you can join us!
Check out https://providence.makerfaire.com for details.
It's a happy day today: my latest book, Get Started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico 2nd Edition, has officially launched!
Massive thanks to @bjepson and everyone at Raspberry Pi Press for their work on this major update - complete with a shiny new look-and-feel and new chapters on experimenting with Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi with the Raspberry Pi Pico W.
It took me a little while to get around to it, but I've finally updated the "how to build a cluster" tutorial on the @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social site for Raspberry Pi OS #Bookworm. So if you want to take a go at building your own #bramble, now you can! https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/cluster-raspberry-pi-tutorial/
A lovely delivery from @bjepson today: a copy of my @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social Beginners Guide 5th Edition auf Deutsch. Hurra!
Nobody should worry about Hobbes, I've got Hobbes handled.
A little Halloween fun with redefined character sets in Atari BASIC https://atariprojects.org/2018/10/31/celebrate-halloween-with-atari-basic-10-15-mins #atari #atari8bit #halloween #pumpkin
It's a special day today: the latest edition of my book, *The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide*, is out - bringing with it updates for the new Raspberry Pi 5, the Debian Bookworm-based Raspberry Pi OS, and even squeezing in an introduction to the Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W.
@bjepson and I, along with everyone at @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social Press, worked really hard to make this the biggest and best edition yet. I hope you enjoy it!
https://freelance.halfacree.co.uk/2023/10/the-official-raspberry-pi-beginners-guide-5th-edition/
I ran @dusthillperson's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=8w4d6 #bbcbasic
I ran @geoffl's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=8uzD5 #bbcbasic
Got a lot to do today, so naturally I got distracted and starting testing a @raspberry_pi Pico W-powered direct-solar web server. It's overcast, so the little 3W dual-panel thing I tried first failed miserably - but an upgrade to a 21W triple-panel setup worked a treat.
*The Lost Cause* is my next novel. It's about the climate emergency. It's hopeful. $LibraryJournal called it "a message hope in a near-future that looks increasingly bleak." As with every other one of my books #Amazon refuses to sell the audiobook, so I made my own, and I'm pre-selling it on #Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-lost-cause-a-novel-of-climate-and-hope
1/
Today I added i2c to the R package rpigpior. Take a look!
https://github.com/mnr/rpigpior
@Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social @bjepson #raspberrypi #rstat @r4pi
@Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social, @RaspberryPi, @raspberrypi@feddit.de, @r4pi, @bjepson
My R language package to connect Raspberry Pi GPIO to R now supports PWM. Cool or what?!
https://github.com/mnr/rpigpior and https://mnr.github.io/rpigpior/
Last night, a dream came true - I saw and captured the Aurora Borealis (aka Northern Lights) over Rhossili Bay. I've had this location in mind for years if the conditions were right. And last night it happened!
You can buy this photo here: https://www.dansantillo.com/gallery/gower/?photo=DS_308844
Apparently people don't just like emulated calculators in the browser - they love it, and want more.
So come enjoy the CALCULATOR DRAWER, a dozen plus emulated calculators and (where I could find them) the manuals. Get calculating!
undo rm -rf /
![A four-panel SAFELY ENDANGERED comic that has been modified
Panel 1: Winnie the Pooh is sticking his hand into a honey pot.
Panel 2: Tigger, looking panicked, says “SWEET JESUS, POOH! THAT'S NOT Indian Pale Ale”
Panel 3: Tigger, still panicked, says “YOU'RE EATING International Phonetic Alphabet”
Panel 4: Pooh, looking concerned, says in IPA [oʊ 'bɑðɚ] (oh, bother)](https://cdn.masto.host/lingolol/media_attachments/files/111/109/121/409/796/065/original/5564b67dad28cd8e.png)
