I've been flashing OpenWrt onto a Plusnet Hub One to use as a cheap wireless extender.

I initially tried the tape and tin-foil method to make the serial connection, but switched to chopstick and nails.

I was going to create a 802.11s mesh, but got scared, and switched to a simple WDS scheme.

I received my ESP32 Rainbow.

Very strange to have a ZX Spectrum with a built in screen that can run off a power bank.

Sometimes you come across signs that the output formatting was not matched to the communication channel.

I count two failures:
1. The pound sign (£) is two invalid characters. I suspect encoded as UTF-8 and that is not supported
2. Spurious HTML (</span>) on a text output

It is going to take a lot to convince me that "love locks" are not just littering.

This photo taken in Paris 2019 showed that people were even attaching them to the the statues!

This outburst was triggered by hearing about "Save the Lovelocks at Bakewell", who campaigned to preserve the padlocks that were causing injuries.