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    <updated>2026-03-01T13:50:35Z</updated>
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      <title>New microcontroller reference board</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2026:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.446</id>
      <published>2026-02-22T16:44:00Z</published>
      <updated>2026-03-01T13:50:35Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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        Throughout the years I&apos;ve made several Kicad reference&#45;designs that others can use as starting points for their own custom boards and today I&apos;ve published a new one for the popular RP2350 sereies, based on the RP2354A that has 2Mb builtin Flash.
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Why will two USB Type C cables not provide power?</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2026:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.445</id>
      <published>2026-01-31T16:35:00Z</published>
      <updated>2026-01-31T17:07:28Z</updated>
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            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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      <category term="Hacking/Making"
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        I just made a nifty little board for use with my Joulescope that will let me plug any USB dev board into it to precisely measure power. But it wasn&apos;t just as smooth as this? It only worked half the time? I was puzzled. Did I forget something?
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Screentime going bananas? Here&#8217;s why!</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.443</id>
      <published>2025-12-04T12:40:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-12-05T16:03:44Z</updated>
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            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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        I was discussing phone usage with some friends the other day and we compared our ScreenTime. I almost fell off the chair and the others were seriously shocked as well: 8+ hours of screen time per day? What on earth had happened to me? I was certain that I had used my phone less than average that week, and the next week it was even worse.&amp;nbsp;
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Not so Smart Features from Google</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.442</id>
      <published>2025-11-09T14:33:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-11-09T14:58:09Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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      <category term="Misc"
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        label="Misc" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        I recently got a new kind of spam &#45; entries added automatically to my calendar &#45; without me ever doing anything. Here&apos;s how to fix it.
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Fix for ESP32 serial device not working when recompiling</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.440</id>
      <published>2025-09-14T20:10:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-09-14T20:42:01Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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      <category term="Electronics"
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      <category term="Microcontrollers"
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        I just published the first major firmware update for my radar sensor and while doing that, I stubled upon what seems like a significant change in the Arduino&#45;esp32 integration. This took me some time to figure, so time to post it for others to find.
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>In Norway, we&#8217;re living in the future</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.439</id>
      <published>2025-08-05T09:23:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-08-05T11:24:32Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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      <category term="Misc"
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        label="Misc" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        President Trump has had an “alternating” relationship to electric cars in the first six months of his second precidency. He really do not want to support them in any way and rather the opposite &#45; he wants to support the fossil fuel industry to Make America Great Again. Meanwhile, I just discovered that we now have Petrol stations without Petrol?
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>ESP32&#45;S3 strapping pins</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.438</id>
      <published>2025-06-24T21:26:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-06-24T22:08:31Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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      <category term="Electronics"
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        Just had a gotcha with a custom board based on ESP32 S3, so I&apos;m posting for this for future me (and anyone else that may need it).
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Web retrospective: Mumseby (1999&#45;2003)</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.437</id>
      <published>2025-05-29T11:08:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-05-29T13:14:59Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        What would you say if I told you the biggest social media site in 2002 was owned by a chocolate manufacturer? It wouldn&apos;t sound plausible at all, would it? Yet it&apos;s true and I was part of it. The name of this blog is even related to it.
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Thoughts on Vibe Coding with AI</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.436</id>
      <published>2025-04-20T11:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-04-20T18:35:03Z</updated>
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            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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        In my feed, there keeps popping up stories about “Vibe coders”. At Bitraf there is currently an influx of new members that never would code unless AI enabled them to do so. These are “hardware vibe coders” that trust that AI can help them solve hardware problems. Is AI coding for either software or hardware currently viable? And is Vibe&#45;coding possible beyond the first prototype?
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Missed opportunity (or why I never finished my LEGO light controller)</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.435</id>
      <published>2025-04-02T19:40:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-11-09T19:23:50Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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      <category term="Blinky!"
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        When you work as a consultant, you have to work when there is work. Having a side&#45;project that you can develop during downtime and then later sell is nice. I&apos;m happy with how the RadSense product has developed, but there is one project where I recently missed my opportunity &#45; making better lighting for LEGO and model projects.
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Windows 365 Copilot nag screen on Windows 10</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2025:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.434</id>
      <published>2025-03-31T22:24:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-04-02T21:17:48Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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        label="Misc" />
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        My gaming PC died the other day. It&apos;s one of those annoying things about SSD&apos;s. They just die instantly. So to get my computer back, I had to reinstall Windows 10. After re&#45;installing, there was a super annoying nag&#45;screen telling me to install Windows 365 Copilot. This is not ordinary .exe file, so I had a hard time preventing it from running on startup. I used search engines to see if others had found a way to stop the Copilot advertising to run at startup, but found nothing. Then I had a facepalm moment when I realized that this can be uninstalled from the Control Panel like any other App. While there I also uninstalled a few more preinstalled Windows apps. It&apos;s been a while since that machine was as responsive as this?I might install Copilot at some point, but I have no interest in getting spammed every time my computer starts up. Just sharing in case others don&apos;t want Microsoft&apos;s sales pich in their face every day.&amp;nbsp;
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>The stairs to Knowledge</title>
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      <published>2025-03-03T12:17:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-03-16T13:06:23Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        As a Teenager, you know everything! You also think that you cannot die and that everything must be tested. This is a brilliant time. It&apos;s the time to party until late and solve world problems over endless units of alcohol. Many years ago a friend explained me the idea that knowledge comes in steps.&amp;nbsp;
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Starlink is great, but there&#8217;s one major drawback to it</title>
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      <published>2025-01-05T00:57:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-01-28T14:50:18Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
      </author>

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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
        I&apos;ve been a huge fan of SpaceX and Starlink for many years, so I was first in line when they launched in Norway two years ago. Up until November 26th when my router died, it&apos;s been brilliant.
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>RTC memory on ESP32 and DeepSleep gotcha</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2024:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.429</id>
      <published>2024-12-06T10:07:00Z</published>
      <updated>2024-12-08T19:10:41Z</updated>
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            <name>jensa</name>
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      </author>

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        I&apos;m currently working on a project using a ESP32 C3 to control a low power sensor that is running off a battery. I&apos;m using my Joulescope to see exactly what each change is resulting in. One of the nice tricks in the ESP32 family is that they have 4K of RTC memory that persists between deep sleep sessions and yesterday I re&#45;learned something that I think is worth sharing.&amp;nbsp;
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    </entry>    <entry>
      <title>Slow winter coming up?</title>
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      <id>tag:https:,2024:/flashgamer.com/index.php/1.428</id>
      <published>2024-11-24T16:11:00Z</published>
      <updated>2025-01-03T12:32:07Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>jensa</name>
            <email>dont.want@spam.com</email>
            
      </author>

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      <category term="Solar"
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        Ever since I quit the firm I started in 1996, I&apos;ve had a steady influx of new jobs. Since 2008, I&apos;ve more or less known what I&apos;ll be doing the coming 3&#45;6 months. This winter, it seems a little different?
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