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  • Hnefatafl, Viking Chess for Game Boy

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    On The Royal Game of Ur, the link cable nearly broke me. It was by far the hardest feature of that project, burning through most of $50 in API credits before it finally worked. Music was a close second, the part I was least happy with. So when I set...

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  • Claude Design to revamp two projects

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    Design has always been my bottleneck. I usually have a fairly clear idea of what I want, but turning that into a consistent interface is where I get stuck. For the last redesign of my resume site, back in 2024, I ended up hiring a designer through Fiverr to get...

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  • Revisiting a 20-Year-Old NDS Project with AI

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    Almost twenty years ago, during my PhD in bioinformatics, I needed to brush up on C++. Our lab was doing comparative genomics, studying how genomes evolve at the structural level, particularly the effects of whole genome duplications in plant genomes. One of the key tools we used, i-ADHoRe 2.0, had...

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  • The Royal Game Boy of Ur

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    Years ago, a documentary on “The Royal Game of Ur”, one of the oldest known board games, nearly 5,000 years old, instantly piqued my interest. When I later heard Dr. Irving Finkel discuss it on a podcast, the fascination came flooding back. But this time, I had an idea: build...

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  • Python to Rust: Porting My Genetic Art Algorithm

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    One of the first posts on this blog showed how to implement a genetic algorithm in Python. Revisiting that project, I realized it is an ideal candidate to port to Rust: it is computationally heavy, and touches on performance, parallelism, and data structures. In short, a good excuse to finally...

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  • Using my Kindle PW3 as a Dashboard for Home Assistant

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    An old Kindle, once jailbroken and running KUAL, can be repurposed as a dashboard for just about anything. I’ve actually done this before - though right now, I don’t really need those stats anymore. It would be nice, however, to show some real-time data from my Home Assistant setup on...

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  • Building a Custom Deej Volume Mixer with an RP2040 Pro Micro

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    Looking for a DIY hardware volume mixer to control individual app volumes effortlessly? Whether you’re a gamer, streamer, or audio enthusiast, manually adjusting software volume sliders can be frustrating. That’s where Deej, an open-source USB volume mixer, comes in. This guide will show you how I’ve built a Deej volume...

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  • Can ChatGPT write a Python GUI app for me?

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    Imagine being able to create a fully functioning Python GUI application with just providing instructions. No need to spend hours writing and debugging code, you’d just let AI do the heavy lifting for you. In this post, we’ll explore the capabilities of ChatGPT in developing a Python GUI app and...

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  • XIAO-RP2040: A tiny RPi Pico alternative

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    Doing an electronics project where space comes at a premium? A regular rpi pico is to large? Have a look at the XIAO-RP2040 from Seeed Studio. Seeed Studio provided me a XIAO-RP2040 to review so let’s have a look at this nifty little board. The microchip is identical, though as...

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