Adventures with the Telegram API

I'm working on some home automation things with a Raspberry Pi and wanted it to be able to send me messages on telegram, as well as I ask for stuff and it gives it back to me. So this has lead to me spending a small amount of time playing…

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Project Gearbox, part 2

The gearbox rebuild finally continues! Though I have done some stuff since part 1. Mostly degrotting most of the parts removed and I also came to the conclusion that instead of finding an overdrive (because they go for silly money and would probably need a costly rebuild as well) I…

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Project Gearbox, part 1

My landrover series's gearbox is a bit ropey, it's definitely seen better days and judging by the blue instant gasket that has oozed out between the mating plates at least one previous owner has been inside it. Everything else I have discovered that's wrong with the landy has been due…

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Project Daylight

Adding a LED lightbar to pugly. Overview My daily driver is a Peugeot 1007. It's pretty nifty and unique which is one of the reasons I love it so much, However it's illumination is somewhat lacking, even with the full beams on and with decent bulbs. So I came up…

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Gold radio spotify playlist.

I used to like listening to Gold radio, but they stopped broadcasting and switched to online only, and that's lame/no use for the car/there are ads. So I have written a script that adds their recently played tracks to a spotify playlist. I've set it to run every…

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