Michael Horne

Family man, amateur theatre director/performer, #PiWars organiser and #RaspberryPi fan, #CFML / #SQL / #Javascript programmer, Director of Systems Development for an educational charity. Christian but (fairly) Liberal. Politically a bit Left! Taken up #beadwork as a non-screen hobby!

Potton, Bedfordshire, England - www.recantha.co.uk

Website: https://recantha.co.uk
Theatre: https://sharnbrookmilltheatre.co.uk

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2026-08-02 03:48:38 UTC

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wait... That works...? (Warms up voice) Ahem. Ahem.

2026-07-11 18:52:12 UTC

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Thank you. Wife is here all the time, but often doesn't know how to lift her mum out of her mood. Which affects wife's mood... Vicious circle.

2026-07-11 18:07:56 UTC

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How do you keep the encouragement going for your other half? My wife is currently caring for her mum (suspected colon cancer) and it's a bit...up and down? :-/

2026-06-17 13:46:57 UTC

I think I'm not doing well today, #mentalhealth wise. Not well at all.

2026-06-07 03:34:54 UTC

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Reminds me of the time someone asked me to add lights and sound to a Lancaster Bomber model. https://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?page_id=21362

2026-05-25 04:26:02 UTC

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Sorry to hear about the panic attack :-( I'm sure Summer did her best to reassure you. Brains are weird sometimes. Hope.you feel better now!

2026-05-02 20:45:23 UTC

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I know Guild of Makers were doing Guild of Bakers with multiple bread makers last time?

2026-03-22 17:34:54 UTC

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Just a few toys, then? :-) Every good dog deserves ridiculous amounts of them.

2026-02-28 18:32:43 UTC

Had a great time at CamJam today. Well done Brian C for organising! Knackered now! :-)

2026-02-22 09:03:11 UTC

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Oh. Booooooo. Physical media it is, then!

2026-02-22 08:47:23 UTC

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It's on YouTube..officially. the whole thing.

2026-02-13 02:43:13 UTC

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I was only saying to my wife earlier: I really want pie! I hope to live vicariously through this picture. :-D

2026-02-10 15:19:25 UTC

I've used Discord for YEARS... But today I'm looking at hosting something else to do the same job. What are people looking at? Matrix? I'm not familiar with it, so could do with a recommendation! :-) #discord

2026-02-04 02:45:53 UTC

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She certainly likes a good stick, doesn't she! :-)

2026-01-08 07:59:03 UTC

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Aren't dogs just THE BEST? :-)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/858/416/115/404/582/original/06725c256439616a.jpg

2025-12-28 12:00:26 UTC

I am stunned by how slow John Lewis is at despatching items. Maybe I'm used to/spoiled by places like Amazon and The Pi Hut... But honestly? 10 days to arrive? Yeesh. No wonder they struggle to stay relevant.

2025-12-16 04:44:27 UTC

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Peanut butter? Intriguing. Looks like a comfy snuggles :-)

2025-12-16 04:42:17 UTC

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Mixed feelings... On the one hand, nice to get the compliment. On the other hand...who does that?
Nice shoes by the way. Good colour. Look comfy. :-)

2025-09-24 14:13:33 UTC

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Oh those are MINIATURES! At first glance, I immediately recognised some of them and thought they were full-sized! 🙂 Nice work indeed!

2025-09-19 04:07:29 UTC

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Isn't it strange how dogs make our lives better just by existing. And some people the opposite? :-)

2025-08-26 09:49:39 UTC

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There's a problem, I think, of most educators, and tech professionals, obsessed with doing things "the right way" which means that when "the right way" was changed, I think most people WANT to do it the right way, but see it as a barrier. Which it definitely is.

2025-08-26 09:17:37 UTC

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Spot on. It used to be "Here's some GPIOZero to flash an LED" now it's "Right... Brace yourself... Here's 20 minutes of boilerplate bollocks with venv to start with".

2025-08-25 17:30:00 UTC

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And now all the old tutorials don't "just work".

2025-08-25 17:29:26 UTC

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My guess is that he was very used to doing things "the old way" and then suddenly he was forced to use venvs and suddenly everything had to be relearned. All the tutorials for the Pi used to just say "install xyz and go". Now one has to mess with venvs because someone arbitrarily decided not to support the old way. Just a guess.

2025-08-21 07:21:11 UTC

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Morning!

2025-06-21 09:55:08 UTC

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Oh and a USB Psion 5 keyboard but I doubt that's drawing much.

2025-06-21 09:52:33 UTC

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I'm not sure how I'd find out! Basically, it's a Pi 3A or B plus what looks like a decent sized mobile phone touch screen affixed to the back of the Pi.

2025-06-18 18:09:34 UTC

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Now. Some small problems. It's a 3A so with half a gig of memory, web browsing is God awful, if not unusable. Plus I appear to be undervolting all over the blummin' place. Which is a shame as I thought the Seeed Studio power board was up to the job. Anyone got any suggestions on powering a 3B from a battery pack? Might be worth another go...

2025-06-18 18:05:34 UTC

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From this, in fact! (See Alt on the pic!)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/705/686/142/289/005/original/d277a75f34935fad.jpg

2025-06-18 16:05:12 UTC

First post from the #Psion Pi!

2025-05-26 04:41:36 UTC

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Sweet! Love underwater bots. But then The Abyss is one of my fave films, so...

2025-05-03 06:48:52 UTC

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Oh, you're back are you? Good 'o. 🙂

2025-04-14 11:52:33 UTC

More work on my #Psion Pi project. I've given up trying to do a clamshell and am thinking of a non-hinged fixed-angle workstation now. Unfortunately, the design of a pass-through hinge was too much for me. Currently trying to figure out how to attach something like the back piece at that fixed angle to the foreground piece AND not print it "all in one" which would take too long in one go on my Ender 3 for my liking!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/336/171/753/046/043/original/37d394163c01a361.png

2025-03-18 15:00:49 UTC

Next project! Psion Pi keyboard conversion – more details as we go!
My next project is to successfully convert a Psion 5 keyboard for use as a Raspberry Pi keyboard.
You can find all the details, in the form of a build log, here!
https://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=22503
#Making #psion
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2025-02-21 07:42:53 UTC

What's with the big two Raspberry Pi vendors suddenly doing this big Home Assistant/Smart Home push on products? Probably a smart move, but just weird they both decided to do it at once! 😕

2024-12-22 14:37:20 UTC

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I agree with all that you've said. The more experience in your "experience", the better value for money. Not every show *needs* a pre or post show, though. Fewer people drinking alcohol would be my preference!

2024-11-16 11:44:15 UTC

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Soft

2024-11-08 09:37:22 UTC

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I've got cheap Chinese tablets with less bezel than that thing! ;-)

2024-11-08 06:33:07 UTC

I can't say I was absolutely begging for (checks notes) a 7" 720p screen with mahoosive bezels and a (blinks, confused) USB hub from our favourite fruit-based computer company, but here we are.

2024-10-16 18:07:39 UTC

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I like my theatre dark... But no thank you.

2024-10-03 08:23:50 UTC

Are the #RaspberryPi Pico 2 (RP2350) GPIO pins broken? AT LAST a plain-English explanation of the problem. Better reading this than trying to find it on... checks notes... page 1341 (good grief) of the RP2350 datasheet. https://www.doctormonk.com/2024/09/are-pico-2-rp2350-gpio-pins-broken.html Big thanks to Simon Monk for the explanation.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/242/525/418/062/297/original/0483f2d64e091a44.jpg

2024-08-31 07:42:25 UTC

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Yep. They've gone back to X, it seems. Raspberry Pi social media team making good choices as always.

2024-08-09 10:12:52 UTC

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remove it with a clear note as to why it's been removed