Articles by David Crookes
rePalm
You’ve got to hand it to Dmitry Grinberg – squeezing PalmOS 5 onto Raspberry Pi Pico is no mean feat
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Blackberry Pi
The BlackBerry is back – or at least that’s what David Crookes thought until he looked more closely at Zhou Xu’s amazing creation
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DispatchPi
Olivier Simard-Hanley found a picture-perfect way of keeping in touch with his fiancée
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Flight tracker with weather
When Adam Paulson wanted to recreate a flight tracker, he decided it needed to spread its wings, as David Crookes explains
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Ohsillyscope waveform display
With Thomas McDonald’s ingenious riff on the oscilloscope, live music performances don’t just sound great, they look good too
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Chonky Pocket
Dan Norris’s project looks like a video game handheld console, but it’s a computer that can be operated with one hand
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RAD Expansion Unit
Want to get the most out of old tech? David Crookes looks at one device which boosts the Commodore 64 so much, it’s capable of playing Doom
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Properly pointing telescopes with PiFinder
Richard Sutherland doesn’t need to stab around in the dark any more – his all-in-one astronomy positioning device will point the way
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ClippyGPT
Clippy is back! And this time we’re really glad to see and hear from Microsoft’s iconic character, as David Crookes explains
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Aquarium dosing pump
There’s something fishy about this fabulous project, but that’s the whole point, as David Crookes explains
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Word clock
David Crookes reckons it’s time we all paid some attention to Christopher Hall’s amazing clock
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Radiation detecting Geiger counter
Concerned about the potential of rising radiation levels in Ukraine, Dmytro Panin has set about monitoring them
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