After having left Barracuda earlier this month I finally have a bit of time on my hands, so I thoght was about time I got around to migrating thias blog from Wordpress to a bunch of Markdown files ...

Wow!! 7 years since my last blog post. Time to rectify that…

So I had some (limited) success with my astrophotography last night. It was a clear night for an hour or so and I managed to get the settings for raspistill tweaked to capture some night stars. I g...

I’ve been looking at using my Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera for Astrophotography recently… A decent shot of the Milky Way is the objective. A decent time-lapse video of a clear sky through the night is...

For a while now I’ve been meaning to put together a board with a few IR LEDs for a Pi NoIR Camera… The Pi NoIR camera is an add on for the Raspberry Pi that uses the CSI-2 camera interface on the ...

I’ve been playing around with getting a Raspberry Pi with a RDA5708 FM Radio module working. I bought 2 of them from ebay for around £7. They took around 2 weeks to arrive (from China). Wiring t...

After one too many times of forgetting to shutdown my (headless) Raspberry Pi before shutting down my PC/laptop (and resorting to just pulling the power plug), I decided I needed a button to shut i...

Our kitchen radio finally gave up the ghost a few days ago. I suspect it is just the power supply, and at some point I’ll crack it open and see if it is salvageable. However, it was a good opportun...

This project, a Raspberry Pi Outdoor Music Player had been germinating in my mind for a while. We’d had a few BBQs and found that running an extension outside to plug the iPod and speaker system in...

Postman had a gift for me today. 2 of these new BBC Micro:bit devices arrived. I guess that mean I have to find another 2 projects to build…