Busily jail-breaking, reprogramming and configuring a load of The Kettle Companion smart plugs for some lovely new customers. We seem to be the victim of Cybergibbons 🚲🚲🚲 long reach 🤣 I really need these things to come pre-programmed #weeknotes

The Log Lady Mike Atkinson perhaps they wouldn’t want to be bothered? It’s a passive monitoring service.

Mike Atkinson Charles Arthur Excellent. The link was broken so here's the working one:

'- The Kettle Companion' kettlecompanion.com

I love this. My parents have plugged their kettle into a smart plug, & this device in our kitchen turns red if they don't have a cup of tea by 10am. Nifty, huh? If you've got elderly people you want to keep a gentle eye on, you can get one here https://kettlecompanion.
com/

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Just released: the Canis Automotive Labs CryptoCAN encrypted messaging stack for CAN bus, as MicroPython firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico. It contains an SHE+ HSM emulator (the keys are stored in the Pico's flash chip). I wrote a blog post on how to get started: kentindell.github.io/2022/10/10/cry…

Andy Stanford-Clark Andy Piper glowmarkt Joshua Cooper Can also vouch for the glowmarkt CAD, been using mine to pipe local realtime data into Home Assistant with MQTT.

They've also been very responsive when I reported a bug in the MQTT data and had it fixed within a couple days.

And this is why chatbot technology gets a bad reputation…

Pi of things Ryan Walmsley David Whale (micro:bit wizard) Andy Stanford-Clark Peter Green Virgin Media Wee update on this...

I switched down to 50% backlight without my partner's knowledge and she's none the wiser.

Did the same with my son's TV - down from 80% to 40% and he's also fine with that change.

Peter Anghelides Andy Stanford-Clark Rory Cellan-Jones A classical excuse!

If you’re in Milton Keynes tonight check out my laser show at the station as part of City of Codes and Light at the station

Pi of things Ryan Walmsley David Whale (micro:bit wizard) Andy Stanford-Clark Peter Green Virgin Media This raises a generally interesting point for anyone wanting to optimise their energy costs.

At 5hrs of TV per day (UK avg) you can probably save £5/year per TV per 10% backlight that you can reduce your settings by. This is for a 7-8yr old 46 inch TV BTW. YMMV by size and age.

Rory Cellan-Jones Andy Stanford-Clark I was hoping to have him explain quantum computing to me in Ryde at exactly the same time, but Andy told me that he couldn’t be in two places at once.

Books flying off the shelf! Rory Cellan-Jones

Great to meet up with old friend Andy Stanford-Clark (Andy Stanford-Clark) in Cowes where he explained quantum computing to me - or tried!

Wondering how Royal Mail Help defines “Tracked 48” … I always thought it's 48 hours end-to-end… we can see where it is, and it’s been wallowing about in your system for about 90 hours now, by my reckoning.
Do we get a refund?
Or…. Better still, can I have my parcel, please?!!

The one and only legend of tech broadcasting…. Rory Cellan-Jones at the #IoWLiteraryFestival

Here’s a Christmas gift idea - buy my book #AlwaysOn and I will send you a personalised dedication to stick in the front. DM my Twitter account for details

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