Taking high-quality screenshots using Xterm

Taking high-quality screenshots using Xterm

Something that I commonly need when writing documentation is high quality screenshots of terminal windows. It’s possible to create these using the standard tools provided with your distribution (for example, you can press Alt +...

02 Dec 2020

Cross-Compiling MicroPython for Kindle Paperwhite 3

Cross-Compiling MicroPython for Kindle Paperwhite 3

MicroPython is (according to their website) “a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and...

04 Oct 2020

Installing OpenWrt 19.07.3 on BT Homehub 5A

Installing OpenWrt 19.07.3 on BT Homehub 5A

After moving into a new property a few months ago, the drawbacks of using the ISP supplied firmware included on my router rapidly started to become apparent. As a rule, ISP supplied firmwares tend to...

30 Sep 2020

Adding accelerometer support to KoReader for Kindle Touch: Part 1

Adding accelerometer support to KoReader for Kindle Touch: Part 1

The Kindle 5/Kindle Touch includes a Freescale MMA8453Q accelerometer as part of its internal hardware. It seems to have been added to enable rotation control functionality similar to that found on the later Kindle Oasis...

29 Sep 2020