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A collection of slightly mad projects, instructive/educational videos, and generally interesting stuff.Building projects around the Arduino and ESP32 platforms - we.

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News MrBananas 2 months ago
Detecting Claude and ChatGPT using letter counting.
I taught my meatbag detector a second robot: ChatGPT. Same four-letter n-gram trick, new model-turns out ChatGPT is a tad easier to spot than Claude, especially on short text. I also trained a gene...
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News MrBananas 2 months ago
Detecting Claude by counting letters
Anthropic now watermarks Claude, but I wanted a detector we can run ourselves-so I built one. It ignores words entirely, counts 4-letter n-grams, feeds them to a linear SVM, and reliably flags Clau...
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News MrBananas 2 months ago
The Output Style, It Does Nothing! - Learning to live with Claude
I tried taming Claude's bar-stool rambling with ASD-STE100 and even stuffed it in CLAUDE.md. It felt cleaner for a moment, but the prose stayed just as empty-while the code and tests were actually ...
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News MrBananas 2 months ago
Rescuing my 2006 Travel Blog
In 2006 I stuffed my life in my parents' loft and spent 13 months from Guatemala to Tierra del Fuego, live-blogging 182 posts. Nineteen years on, I yanked exports from Blogger and Flickr, fed them ...
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News MrBananas 2 months ago
I Asked AI to Design 12 Dev Boards. It Told Me to Write a Script.
I wanted a dev board for every Espressif module with a PCB antenna and native USB, 12 boards across the S2, S3, C3, C5, C6 and H2 families, so I asked AI to design them. It talked me out of it: thi...
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News MrBananas 3 months ago
Invaders! is back: rescued from a forgotten Bitbucket account
I dug up my other 2009 iPhone game, Invaders!, after thinking the source was lost-turns out it was hiding in a forgotten Bitbucket git repo (thankfully not Mercurial). Claude Code helped port it to...
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News MrBananas 3 months ago
Tanks! Mayhem is back: 16 years later, in your browser
I dusted off my 2010 wireframe tank shooter, Tanks! Mayhem-pulled from the US App Store after an Atari complaint-and asked Claude Code to bring it back on the web. About half an hour later I had a ...
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News ESP Modules 4 months ago
Espressif modules: compare 24 WROOM / WROVER / MINI parts
Browse and compare 24 Espressif Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules across 10 SoCs: specs, pinouts, schematics and 3D models.
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News MrBananas 6 months ago
Hacking a Cheap PIR Night Light Into Something Actually Useful
Sick of flaky PIR night lights with laughable range and timeouts, I cracked one open, reverse-engineered the sanded-off mystery chip, and swapped the PIR for an RC-WL0516 microwave radar. I added a...
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