Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you. #FirstPhoneCall
Published: March 10, 2026, 12:12 pm
Portrait photograph of Alexander Graham Bell circa 1898, image Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery via Wikipedia commons On this day in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call and gets the credit as the inventor of the telephone. Bell wasn’t alone though, there was a tech race afoot with notable inventors like Elisha […]
CircuitPython 10.1.4 Released!
Published: March 9, 2026, 11:25 pm
From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 10.1.4, the latest bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. Highlights of this release Fix pin-reset regression which caused display problems on some boards. Fix object creation and deinitialization problems, most notably when SPI was used for displays on SAMD. Download from circuitpython.org Firmware […]
Making a Poor Man’s Polaroid @raspberry_pi
Published: March 9, 2026, 9:59 pm
On boxart.lt, they show the Poor Man’s Polaroid project: This is an instant camera that uses thermal printer to print photos, the same one that prints your receipts at the store. Photos aren’t the same quality as the self developing film that polaroid uses, but they do have some, uhh, charm to them, I suppose. […]