Tony is a Geek

Okay, so these particular one's are not "new", they have been sitting on the shelf for the past few years gathering a bit of dust.  I did stick 2xAA batteries in the back (as that is all they need), but they turned on and went straight off again.... I assumed they were broken or something.  Then I found the CMOS battery slot hidden behind the IR cover, swapped that out for a new one and plugged the external PSU for the Atari Portfolio (more about that later!) in and lo'and'behold, we have working devices!  I started with the 1MB model, just to make sure I didn't fry anything and then I moved over to the more "precious" 2MB model.  I also switched out the Duracell batteries for rechargeable ones and then had to find out how to "up" the contrast so I could see stuff! Well, I was mightily impressed by these little devices, they are awesomely powerful with their little 486 motherboards and no moving parts.  They run MS-DOS v5 too...  I'll f...

 So, in todays episode of, "How can Tony waste his time doing some worthless task, he'll never get that time back y'know....", CLICK HERE TO WASTE SOME OF YOUR TIME SEEING HOW I WASTED MINE I give an update on the progress of the face detection / recognition code I scratch my head as to why the CPU usage is still so high? I figure out why the CPU usage is so high! I do a very quick explanation of HAAR classifier usage and hence the CPU usage issue I get bored and do some fun stuff with hardware - mainly hooking up SERVOs to a Raspberry Pi 4 I also get very irate with myself as I still cannot find the Wifi extender device that will allow me to play with my old 486DX40 Handbook (the worlds smallest "laptop" device) and get it connecting to the Internet - why?....why not!... I set it all up 6 years ago and I just want to see if it's still valid ... and okay, I might set it up as a cheeky web-server! CLICK HERE TO WASTE SOME OF YOUR TIME SEEING HOW I WASTED ...