Tony is a Geek

 UPDATE: okay, as previously mentioned I spent a little bit of time ( on a Saturday evening ) looking to use a Raspberry Pi PICO W and a Robo Pico board, along with a very old Dr.Who K9 robot toy to create a functioning "modern day" object avoidance detection robot.  No rocket science going on here, execpt me being me, I wanted to use JavaScript and NOT Python to control everything. Why JavaScript? Well, when coding for Arduino you are using C.  The cleanest and most sensible coding language to use ( ignore all that modern day OOP rubbish that people attempted to shove on/around it - that just ruined it, sometimes Software Architect are NOT right & if you accept that, you then chose what is best for the job, rather than forcing everything to fit what you know, bit of a life lesson there, me's thinks ) for the task at hand whilst running on constrained embedded devices.  Well, I'm not using an Arduino atm, however, I might, so to make the "switch" easier...

Back in mid-December 2023, I made a statement , more for myself than anything in an attempt to "force myself" to put aside some time for "me" and do something I want/need to do. Did I do it? Did I b*ll*x.  Why not?  well, you guessed it. Yep, those underpaying, whip cracking, slave masters that I am forced to serve insisted that I dedicate my time to earn them more mulla. sigh.  So, I wrote the beginnings of an application that will become a COrE system that was just enough for me to hand-over to 3-4 other people to continue with.  I think they'll take it further with minimal guidance from myself and that will "free me up" to at least get some "me" time. Saying that, it took until 6pm on a Saturday in mid-January for me to get around to starting what I wanted to do - and boy was it really small BABY steps, but at least I'm forcing the issue on myself.  Why did it take so long? well, I got a tiny bit distracted by the dimensional blurs goi...

A match made in heaven? If you rewind back to one of my first posts on this blog (although I had been "doing" stuff way before then, I just didn't record it), I was setting up a Raspberry Pi 1 to run nodeJS - basically "server-side JavaScript", it was more than capable and was very useful and handy thing to do. Well, the Raspberry Pi 5 has just been announced to be available from 23rd October - yes, I've got an order in for a 4GB and 8GB version - well, the specs for the RPi5 are just mindblowing.  It is like having a full blown desktop replacement machine in a small form factor, you don't need to "buy a PC" anymore, a £50 RPi v5 will do all you need it to do... if indeed you want to use it as a "PC replacement". Personally, I'm more of the, it should be an IoT hardware integration device and not something you use for playing the latest triple-A games on or complaining about "dropped frames" from streaming YouTube videos...