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2024

The state of AWS IPv6 and IPv4 in January 2024

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From 1st February AWS will introduce a charge for every Public IPv4 address used, but how is AWS tracking with using IPv6 IP Addresses themselves?

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Garden DMX512 Lighting Project – Raspberry Pi Pico

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A DMX512 controlled Bollard light built on a Raspberry Pi Pico

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2023

Ikea Vindriktning Raspberry Pi Pico Guide

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A simple 2 hour build to enable an Ikea Vindriktning to be turned into a remote air quality sensor on WiFi

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Sharp PC-4600 (PC-4602/PC-4641) Expansion Bus ISA Breakout

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This project provides two 8-bit ISA Slots to the Sharp PC-4600 (PC-4602/PC-4641) laptop computer systems.

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Implement a Serverless AWS Route53 Backup Method

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This is a pattern to deploy a scheduled serverless function to list and export all the Resource Records in an AWS Route53 zone into an S3 Bucket.

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Sharp PC-4600 (PC-4602/PC-4641) External Floppy Drive

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This project adds and configures an external Floppy Drive (360K) to a Sharp PC-4600 (PC-4602/PC-4641) Notebook computer from around 1989.

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2022

AWS S3 Backup Management Script

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This script offers customizable backup management, and will expire and delete backups that don’t meet the standard S3 Management policies.

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Implement a Serverless Dynamic DNS Server (DynDNS Compatible) using AWS API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB

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This is a pattern to deploy a serverless API to run a Dynamic DNS Service. It used Dynamo DB and the AWS Serverless Application Model to deploy a simple Route 53 based DDNS Service.

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Philips Dynalite Multi Device Fan Control using Tasks

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Controlling a FAN using Antumbra and Envision Touch Application.

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2020

Brivis Heating/Cooling Networker Settings

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A Template to record Brivis system settings for future reference.

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The complete guide to setting up WSL 2 under Windows 10 with Multiple Identical Linux Distributions

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Recently I setup WSL under Windows 10 Professional to try out the capabilities and compare the functionality of Windows, Native Linux and Mac for development. I was unable to find a simple guide that outlined all the steps to get this up and running end to end when wanting to use multiple copies of the same linux instance type ie Ubuntu 20, this guide will hopefully solve that for you and provide some additional tips to setup your environment.

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Welcome and how this site was built

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Welcome to my blog, as the first post I thought I would cover how I built it.

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