I’m lucky to have friends working in the electronics industry in various different capacities. Through them, I’ll occasionally get hold of some unwanted/rejected/surplus boards or components... »

I recently acquired a flip-dot display. I’ve always loved how these operate. The “analog” update animations and sounds are tactile and refreshing. In an age of... »

Thank you to everyone for the fantastic responses to this post. The comments section below now contains quite a bit of information from readers building their... »

Sentry is an error/log aggregation platform. It offers lots of really great functionality for exploring errors generated by your applications. If you haven’t given it a... »

I recently had a play with conference calling in Asterisk. It’s pretty easy to use the built in applications in combination with the asterisk-extra-sounds sound libraries... »