In this issue

Condres OS 1.0
Mayank Sharma isn’t usually so easily fooled, but the fear of missing deadlines made him drink old, odourless wine from a new bottle.

Create a custom LCD menu
Les Pounder “cranks that dial” to relive his youth of soldering irons and 1980s electronics, when a ‘bit’ was a relatively unknown concept.

Samsung MUF-256DA

Ganesh T S has never had such a fast thumb... drive!

3 mins

AmOs 22.08.02

Mayank Sharma always falls for beautiful-looking Arch distros, but he wonders if this one does enough to appeal to others...

3 mins

Porteus 5.0

Mayank Sharma has a soft spot for portable distros, and wonders if the latest Porteus can wean him away from his all-time favourite, Slax.

2 mins

Total War: Warhammer 3

Management thought the Realm of Chaos was its hot-desking floor, but Fraser Brown knows better and is perma-working from home...

6 mins

GET INTO CODING!

Code monkey Jonni Bidwell's firmware has glitched out, so he must teach himself to code again. He hopes you'll join him for the adventure...

10+ mins

W5100S-EVB-Pico

Les Pounder wants to add another device to the Internet of Things. "Just a 'pico'-sized project from WIZnet," he promises...

3 mins

Flirc Pi 4 Case

Les Pounder settles down to watch a film, blast some aliens and does a spot of low-power computing while his Raspberry Pi 4 stays cool.

3 mins

ANALOG ZERO: Get to grips with analog electronic control

Les Pounder "cranks that dial" to relive his youth of soldering irons and 1980s electronics, when a 'bit' was a relatively unknown concept.

6 mins

FEATHER-LIGHT WEATHER MONITOR

Jonni Bidwell doesn't fake it till he makes it. Makes a Pi-powered environment monitor, that is...

8 mins

Run a modern, focused, alternative to Vim

While Shashank Sharma is quite fond of the text editor Vim, he realises that it can overwhelm new users. Thankfully, a simplified variant is on offer...

6 mins

Organise your fonts and create new ones

Nick Peers reveals how to manage your font collection as well as design new typefaces from scratch using a collection of open source tools.

10 mins

Relive the days of BeOS

Michael Reed wonders if he's met the 90s-style desktop of his dreams with Haiku, an open source re-creation of the BeOS operating system.

10+ mins

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