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Sorry, I don't really know what's good or not in the PC world as I'm a Mac user. I have a server which runs Unraid and hosts VM's, dockers and runs both Emby (for tv/movies) and Plex (purely music using Plexamp), that machine is a Ryzen 7 2700 with 64GB of ram, it has a Nvidia GTX 1060 which...

The blue is beautiful. Mine arrived about 11 this morning, haven't had a proper play with it yet but absolutely love the colour.

Affinity's tools are awesome, I have separate licenses of them on IOS, Mac & Windows just so that I can use them directly where I am. Been using them since they were beta

Programming is like a rabbit hole, but writing something to solve a problem is very satisfying. I'm currently on another slight tangent, deployment is a big thing in software development, it's one thing making something run on your development machine, but making it run on somebody else's...

Create your own (or contribute to) open source projects. Contributing to projects is a little more effort because you have to ensure that any code you produce fits the code style of the project, start seeing pull requests where somebody hasn't done this and your code is unlikely to get merged...

I printed out the size difference (give or take 11 Pro/12 Pro and 11 Pro Max/12 Pro Max are the same like for like. I personally couldn't live with the size of the 12 Pro let alone a 12, I thought I probably could, but after printing out I realised that wasn't the case.

I misread, I printed out a sheet with the various sizes of devices, the 12 Pro is way too small for me, Max it is!

Definitely worth the upgrade for the one time you install an augmented reality app and say "that's cool" and then never ever use it again. ;) I'm conflicted between the 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max. I currently have an XS Max (256GB of which I have 193GB free after 2 years of use!), I'm not sure...

Their current model seems to have been somewhat of a bait and switch. There’s circuit maker that’s free, but your designs are public. The current circuitstudio is sold by farnell, it’s reasonably cheap but hasn’t seen any updates for around 2 years I think. It’s effectively just circuitmaker...

I just booted it up, yeah, you're right, it's definitely circuit studio derived. It's odd that they've not taken any of the work in that back to circuitstudio itself. Still, $40 a year for a license of it and Solidworks is an absolute steal for hobbyists.

No idea, I am in a groups that are seriously pissed as they’ve removed a lot of the features that were previously included. As I said, search EAA, anybody can be a member (it’s a aeroplane enthusiast group) and they have a deal with Solidworks, every member gets a free edu license. You don’t...

Autodesk have just s**t all over hobbyists with the new licensing for Fusion. However, you can get a full edu version of Solidworks (including PCB which is actually Altium designer) for $40, search for EAA on the net. You won’t be able to open the files in a commercial license of SW, but other...

I only have 500Mbps broadband.....but my internal network is 10Gbps fibre for the main players on it, SSD to SSD transfers over the network are a little bit rapid.

Don’t. iOS14 in my opinion is essentially a point release of iOS13, it’s underwhelming. The app drawer is a nice feature, but I have my apps organised in exactly the same way anyway, so I won’t be using that. iPadOS14 is seriously underwhelming, there’s very little new, it doesn’t even feature...

Chrome is dogshit. It’s a processor hog on Mac. EDID information (what you see in the display info telling you about the monitor) is simply an eeprom, it’s directly connected to the cable, your monitor can quite happily be dead but EDID still work fine. (Not saying that’s the case here, but...

The PCB’s to breakout the zigbee module have arrived from the USA where I had them made, but the bloody zigbee modules are still missing in action. This is the longest I’ve ever had to wait for a module to arrive.

The iPad Pro 12.9” is a beast. It’s an amazing piece of hardware. The magic keyboard takes it to another level, I’m spending 99% of my time with it in the magic keyboard because it’s just so convenient to use. The only time I tend to take it out is to use the pencil when I need to do some...

iOS14 is seriously underwhelming.

I think my Zigbee modules have got lost, they're still showing that they shipped from Singapore on the 25th of May and it's been radio silence since then. I've ordered loads of stuff from china since then and the shipping seems to be unbelievably quick from there at the moment (covid! lol), 7...

Computers don't measure display size in inches (DPI is a calculated parameter). They measure display size in the number of horizontal and vertical pixels. The Pi will use whatever size display is connected to it, if it's not the displays native resolution then it's scaled, but that will...

And here’s my controller being detected by hue (I use iConnectHue app as it’s better than the hue app, but the light obviously appears in the official hue app.

Got around to rewiring the hardware using veroboard so its neater (and less likely to have wires fall off), verified that the module is working correctly. This accepts a voltage from 4.5 to 36V DC. Output driver is next on my list, I have a few different LED strips on order, various voltages...

She would need the password or FileVault recovery key though otherwise it’d be a massive security hole and make encryption rather pointless! I would also hazard a guess that FileVault is not enabled because to boot the Mac you need to enter the password to decrypt the drive to boot it in the...

Good question, a few reasons... Is as you say, interest and because I can. Because I can make it work with anything, not limited to specific strips, this will be a generic controller where you select what LED is on the strip. I can push what is possible, a single controller operating multiple...

I have decided to go the route of the carrier board for the moment, so just quickly knocked up a carrier for the zigbee module and I’ve ordered 3 from OSHPARK in the USA will let me test out doing it that way. OSHPARK are slightly more expensive than china, but (you get 3 from OSHPARK where...

I’ll supply a list of parts and a link to purchase the PCB I will design from China. I found a much cheaper DC/DC converter board, I’m trying to make the thing as simple to put together with as few bits as possible. While I might have no trouble soldering a 64 pin QFP, it’s not something that...

I’m also tempted to add the option of a IR sensor and ESP32 module on board, I have a s**t load of ESP8266 modules which are an older generation module which just has WiFi, but the ESP32 has both WiFi and Bluetooth. I’m thinking along the lines of you could just fit the board with IR + ESP32 +...

Thought rather than spam the main hue thread, I'd start one for this. Following on from my last post where I'd misplaced my traco dc-dc convertors, I did indeed have a board I designed with one on, so out came the hot air gun and off came the convertor. I can now stick everything onto the...

Just a heads up for anybody using IFFT for HUE control, you should check out node-red. It's like a local version of IFFT, there's so many things on it, I also submitted a node which implements a TV timer which I use instead of the built in TV timer, it's controlled via some touch buttons on a...

As a bit of background.... Every HUE network is encrypted with it's own key, if you just sniff the traffic on the network all you'll see is encrypted messages, you need to know the actual key used on your network to be able to talk to the HUE network. What happens is that there's a secret...