This article describes how to make a small device that allows you to use a small keyfob remote control to enter your computer password with one button press.
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Controlling Kodi with Google Home
As with the last post, this uses a Google Home speaker, If This Then That and a Raspberry Pi to allow voice control of something. This time it’s a Kodi media player. Continue reading “Controlling Kodi with Google Home”
Goldilocks and the three states of matter.
The announcement today of Ross 128 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star 11 light years from earth has got me thinking about the habitable zone again. Read on for my thoughts on this phenomenon.
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Unicode makes R2D2 work.
And maybe it is possible to make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
It used to bother me that R2D2 was an R2 unit and therefore only the D2 part of his name is variable and different for each droid, leaving just 260 possible R2 unit names. Now I’m not so sure.
What happened to our game in China?
This is the downloads graph for the last couple on the iOS version of a game called Spark of Genius.
I can see a big jump in downloads in mid August, but can’t see any increase in the adverts the game carries. I also can’t see any unusual activity for the Android version of the game.
EGX
As a spare time game developer and casual game player, I took a trip to the EGX show this weekend and came to a distinct conclusion.