Maker Hacks / chrisg (@makerhacks) - STEMGeeks

Maker Hacks / chrisg

www.makerhacks.com

York, England

Maker and blogger from Calgary 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 [RPG/D&D/Wargaming, Art, 3d printing, arduino, raspberry pi, robots, laser engraving, CNC, programming, Retrocomputing ..]

9 days ago

It’s easier than you think to build yourself a custom keyboard Not saying it is easy , just easier than you think I am converting a ZX Spectrum keyboard into a USB keyboard using a Raspberry Pi Pico. It's been a lot easier than I…

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19 days ago

Remote Control Your Android Device Give old Android phones or tablets a new life via remote control Do you have old phones or tablets knocking around your house? At this point I think most of us have at least o

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23 days ago

Instead of Opening Up PostgreSQL to Remote Connections, Do This Use your SSH credentials to create a secure tunnel to your database TL;DR, here is a shell script. Enjoy! #!/bin/bash

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27 days ago

I finally switched away from the default Mac terminal app and you might want to too "Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration." If you've been working with command-line…

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29 days ago

British parliament just mentioned Doom WADs and Kaizo Mario romhacks E-petition debate relating to consumer law and videogames - Monday 3 November 2025: The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to consumer law and videogames.…

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about 2 months ago

Personalise Your Chrome Browser Experience with Scripts Ever wanted to hide or highlight things on web pages that you do not own? Well - You can! For a long time I was using a heck of a lot of browser extensions, until I discovered…

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about 2 months ago

Hide Particular Hive Spammer's Comments Completely Want to completely hide a comment spammer's posts in the Peakd front-end? No problem, use this JavaScript snippet and eliminate their weird public abuse-kink from your life…

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about 2 months ago

I didn’t have time to finish my text adventure game so I wrote a map editor Sometimes procrastination work can pay off You can take a look at dungeon-loom.retrogamecoders.com On my retro game programming site I have been running a series about [writin

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about 2 months ago

Valuable, Practical Advice for Modern C Programmers Nick Barker's Tips for More Effective C Programming If you have seen many of my social media posts or articles, you will know my fondness and frustrations with the C…

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about 2 months ago

Creating a New Retro Space Battle Game Inspired by Star Trek .BAS Like many geeks of a certain age, I was heavily influenced by classic science fiction and the home computer revolution growing up. It's surprising, then, that I didn't get to…

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