veryAlieN

Englishman brexiled to Germany. @ work: Airborne stuff. @ home: Tech/net geek, programmer, interactive fiction, electronics, gadget fan & 4x Dad! Dour/Dim 🏳‍🌈

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@ATRightMovies Mary Celeste

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@andrewbensonf1 About a year ahead of the game, aren't you?
The final quarter of the *2026* Formula 1 season begins with this weekend's United States Grand Prix.

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@Rainmaker1973 What happened to your typical brand of good posts?
The quantity is seriously affecting the overall quality.
If you haven't got anything to repost, other than trash, then please just wait until you have something else that's educational, interesting, fascinating, or unusual.

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@Rainmaker1973 I'll take that as a good result!

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@Rainmaker1973 Just delete this post.
By posting absolutely obvious fake rubbish, you are destroying the good reputation of Massimo as a source of real, fascinating, and educational information.

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@pimoroni
That was very sneaky!
Fancy that, new shiny stock late on a Friday.
Bagged my pirate loot before they are all gone.

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@Gadgetoid Simple solution which worked for me: Get a decent wifi repeater with a good transfer speed.

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@NoContextBrits I think Cinderella/Achenbrödel and her pigeons could help sort everything out!
Three wishes for Cinderella

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@ilovenostalgia Doctor Who, one of them watching from behind the sofa.

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@pimoroni If that had happened to my pride and joy of the seven seas, the plank walkers involved would not still have all five fingers and their thumbs!
As usual, handled with finesse by the Pimoroni crew.
Hoist the mainsail, splice the mainbrace, and onward with your intrepid voyage! 🏴‍☠️

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@pimoroni @guru @adafruit Return 'em?! No, of course not!
Pulling the power works as a very simple hard reset!
The sd card may disagree?!
If I can access the circuitpython REPL, I can try hitting ctrl-c ctrl-d.
And if I need a full (comedy) virtual reset:
from microcontroller import reset as oops
oops()

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I ordered 2 @adafruit PiCowbell Adaloggers for Pico from @pimoroni
I'm confused!
They do NOT have a right-angle reset button that sticks out the end.
There's a bad 'inaccessible' reset button mid-board, especially when mounted under a pico as intended!?!
No more Captain Resetti?

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@guru What i mean is that the description on the @adafruit product page and hence the one at @pimoroni is wrong for this product https://t.co/NC1XGwyH5P

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@guru Yes, I already noticed that on the learn page the dubious lack of a reset button on the end isn't mentioned any more!
It's only on the PiCowbell proto board, as the sd card socket 'would get in the way' of a reset button.

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@16bitnostalgia The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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@M5Stack @nishikazuhiko The M5Bus is on the left, not on the right, so the core must be placed upside-down. A core with pushbuttons will have the buttons at the top, over port b and port c.

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@pimoroni Couldn't you slice them carefully through the middle and make 1 x 20 headers for using with Picos?
And then carve them up for use with smaller boards?
But then 191,924 1x20 headers might still last more than a lifetime.
But a problem shared is a problem halved or is that doubled?

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@tv_mucho @kath46blue When it works, it works. When it doesn't work, it's really, really, really annoying.
TV mucho used to be quite reliable, now it's just TV not very mucho!

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@M5Stack But when I go to the aliexpress store there are only a couple of products.
It has been like that for months.
Is there some mistake that it doesn't work properly for different regions, like Europe?
I have been buying M5stack from European distributors instead of from aliexpress.