I’m starting to realise that “compatible with the Pico” might have as much meaning as “sure it’s possible to ride a tiger”: “compatible” is not the same as “conducive” in the same way that “possible” is not the same as advisable. Perhaps I was boosted by the “ease” with which I got the Pico and …
With all the pieces in place to allow me to draw to the e-ink screen, I made some 8-bit RAW images and wrote values to the display. It worked, but it looked a bit crusty, not least because the Framebuffer.text method for putting text onto the screen is a fixed size, and a fixed font. …
After connecting the e-ink display to the Pico and managing to get it to display in landscape mode I felt I’d solved the unknowns in making this e-ink weather display. Now it was time to decide what I was going to show, and how I was going to show it. One Python example I’d found …
By default, sending pixels from a Raspberry Pico to a Waveshare e-ink display will result in a portrait image. In the case of the 2.13inch display I started with, this means a screen of 122 pixels wide by 250 pixels high. But what if you want to display in portrait mode? As someone who’s used …
The whole Raspberry Pi craze has passed me by before. Mainly because I have no competency whatsoever in electronics, and when it comes to using it just as a small computer I’ve had no need for one. I don’t really know what drew me to the Raspberry Pi Pico, but it just looked like such …
I brought a Kindle Fire back to the UK, mainly because I wanted a cheap and small tablet, and preferably Android rather than iPad. I wasn’t sure what would and wouldn’t work back in London but since most of what I wanted in a tablet was a web browser I didn’t think it could go …
It’s fairly easy to make your own wallpaper for the Sony Ericsson K750i: Find an image on your PC Resize it to 176 pixels wide by 220 pixels high Save it somewhere Copy it into the Phone Memory/Phone memory/Pictures folder on the phone On the phone itself, go into Menu -> Settings -> Display and …
I’ve just upgraded to the new Sony Ericsson K750i phone and am well pleased with it. It works well as a phone and is much more responsive and easier to use than my old Nokia 6600, but it’s all the extra features that make it really great. The camera takes pretty good pictures for a …
Instructions for connecting the Sony Clie UX50 to the internet via GPRS through a Nokia 6600’s infra red port. I’m on the Orange phone network so some of the settings may be specific to this. I also assume your phone already works with internet/GPRS by itself and has a connection called ‘orangeinternet’ set up (which …
I’ve been spending quite a lot of time trying to get internet access from my Sony Clie through a Nokia 6600 mobile phone’s bluetooth connection and have had some minor success but still not been able to get it to work completely. A major break through came with getting infra-red access (taking a step back …