Tag: software development
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I Wrote This ZX Spectrum Game in 1988 – Will it Load?
Back in 1988 I wrote a computer game called Space Encounters on my 48K Speccy. Will it load? Let’s find out! I began programming on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum back in 1983 when my parents bought a 48K Spectrum for Christmas. Although I played a lot of games on it over the years, I did […]
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ESP32 CAM: How To Save Movies On An SD Card
Here’s a tutorial that shows you how to record a movie using the ESP32 CAM microcontroller module and save it onto an SD card. I’ve used the ESP32-CAM-Video-Recorder-junior example project. It records a series of short movies in .AVI format onto the ESP32 CAM’s SD card. It doesn’t need a wifi connection so you can […]
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Visual Basic 6.0 Documentation Tool
Click here to download the VB Documentation Tool. Need a tool to automatically document your Visual Basic 6.0 source code? The VB Documentation Tool creates comprehensive developer documentation for Visual Basic 6.0 application source code. April 2023: The VB Documentation Tool is now available for free. Please bear in mind the software is unsupported and […]
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SQL Documentation Tool
Click to download the SQL Documentation Tool. Why spent hours documenting your databases by hand? The SQL Documentation Tool automatically documents entire SQL Server databases, allowing you to get on with more important work. April 2023: The SQL Documentation Tool is now available for free. Please bear in mind the software is unsupported and I […]
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.NET Documentation Tool – Document Source Code For Free
Click to download the .NET Documentation Tool. The .NET Documentation Tool creates documentation from .NET Framework (C# and VB.NET) source code. Hundreds of organisations worldwide have used this useful tool to quickly document their .NET application source code. April 2023: The .NET Documentation Tool is now available for free. Please bear in mind the software […]
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ASP Documentation Tool – Free Documentor For Classic ASP
Click here to download the ASP Documentation Tool Premium Edition. April 2023: The ASP Documentation Tool is now available for free. Please bear in mind the software is unsupported and I am unable to provide updates, fixes or technical support because the tools I used to build it no longer work on my PC. If […]
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ESP32 CAM: How To Save Still Images On An SD Card
Here’s a video that shows how to save a series of still images from the ESP32 CAM microcontroller module onto an SD card. You could use this as the basis of a home monitoring IoT application. I use it to make time lapse movies from a series of still images. The ESP32 CAM module has […]
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A Very Basic SQL Cursor for SQL Server (T-SQL)
Here’s a quick overview video of how to write and use a basic cursor in SQL Server’s T-SQL. The SQL code for both a regular SELECT cursor as well as an UPDATE cursor is below. Cursors are really useful if you want to perform a specific action on all of the rows in a particular […]
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I Built a Lego Sized TV for the Friends Apartment Set (10292)
In this video we’ll learn how to make a miniature sized TV for the Lego Creator Expert Friends Apartments set 10292. Then you can recreate the girls (and Ross) watching Phoebe in Smelly Cat and the boys watching Baywatch! All you need is an Arduino Uno, an SSD1306 128×64 0.96 inch OLED display and a […]
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Arduino + TFT Display With Multicolor Sprites (ST7735S 80×160 Module)
In this video you can see how I created a mock up display of the classic Nintendo Donkey Kong game on an Arduino Uno. The display module used is an ST7735S 80×160 TFT screen sourced from eBay. Arduino Uno sketch source code is further down the page… The graphics were created using the Adafruit GFX […]