Blog Archive

7 Years

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First night sky timelapse video

Capturing night-time stills and turning them into a short star trail video. Read More ›

Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera for Astrophotography

Just getting started using the Raspberry Pi with a NoIR camera for astrophotography. Read More ›

IR LEDs for a Pi NoIR Camera

Building a simple IR LED/lamp to take pictures with the Raspberry Pi NoIR camera. Read More ›

Raspberry Pi with a RDA5708 FM Radio Module

Getting an I2C FM radio module working with the Raspberry Pi - sample code on github. Read More ›

How To Make A Raspberry Pi Shutdown Button

Step by step guide on how to make a simple shutdown button for your Raspberry Pi. Read More ›

Vintage Pi Radio Project

The start of another project. Modernising this vintage Roberts Rambler with a little I2C FM module. Read More ›

Raspberry Pi Outdoor Music Player Project

A guide to building a Raspberry Pi outdoor music player from a few components and an old power tool case Read More ›

BBC Micro Bit Arrived

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… Read More ›

Pi Outdoor Music Player Update

Update on the outdoor/wifi music player project I was working on. Read More ›

128×64 OLED Display interfacing with a Raspberry Pi

How to interface an I2C display with a Raspberry Pi, including some C code for initialization and character codes. Read More ›

Working out byte array character maps

Take all 26 letters of the alphabet, add the numbers 0 to 9 and a bunch of punctuation. Now work out the byte arrays for the character maps required to display each character on a [128x64bit OLED display](http://amzn.to/29NPOnS)… Read More ›

Another Raspberry Pi Zero Case

Notes on a new Pi Zero case... Read More ›

Setup OTG Networking on a Pi Zero

Overlays and modules needed to set up OTG Networking on a Pi Zero... Read More ›

Raspberry Pi Zero Case

Notes on a nice little Pi Zero case that I bought... Read More ›

Raspberry Pi Zero USB Hub Hack

A little project to add a 3 port USB hub to a Pi Zero... Read More ›

5 Essential Raspberry Pi Accessories To Buy Today

Got yourself a Raspberry Pi ? Here’s my list of the 5 essential Raspberry Pi Accessories you’ll need to make the most of your Pi. This list covers official, cheapest, most useful and some ‘advanced (DIY)’ accessories. Read More ›

Raspberry Pi Versions

The various versions of the Raspberry Pi... Read More ›

Time-lapse Video with a Webcam

This project will show you how to use a standard webcam to create a time-lapse video recorder – great for watching the whole day go by in a few minutes. Read More ›

Getting Started with a Pi Zero

Managed to get hold of a Pi Zero ? Here’s how to get started with it… Read More ›

Raspberry Pi P6 Reset Hack 2

A little hack to populate the P6 header on a Raspberry Pi and use it for doing remote resets... Read More ›

Gradle Generate Release Notes from Git

A short gradle script to generate release notes from git commits... Read More ›

Quadcopter V1

So for the past few weeks, on and off, I have been focusing on hardware – building a magnificent flying machine – a quadcopter... Read More ›

Git – Push to a new remote server repository

Short reminder to myself on how to create a new server repo and do the initial push to it from a workstation. Read More ›

Baking Pi – Part 2

In this post I wanted to outline what was required to set up Wi-Fi and to get a Microsoft LifeCam 6000 working, providing a web page with the camera image streaming. Read More ›

Pi Track – Overview

One of the things I’d been planning on since buying the Raspberry Pi is putting together some sort of robot (for the kids benefit you understand…) Read More ›

Baking Pi – Part 1

After [starting with a Raspberry Pi](Starting-with-a-Raspberry-Pi) that was just too simple to set up as XMBC media centre for daughter #1 bedroom, it soon became a permanent feature there – meaning, of course, that I needed another… Read More ›

Starting with a Raspberry Pi

I eventually got round to ordering a [Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB RAM)](http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009SMWSQA/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B009SMWSQA&linkCode=as2&tag=configexchan2-21)![](http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=configexchan2-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B009SMWSQA). As you probably know this is a £25 ($35) computer running a 700MHz ARM processor and capable of decoding displaying HiDef 1080p video... Read More ›

Multiple Machine Configuration

If you are anything like me you’ll find yourself using a number of different PCs through a typical week. I have my work laptop, my work Dev machine, my home PC, my netbook and some semi permanent virtual machines that I have. It can be a bit of a pain keeping my standard installed apps updated across all of these. Read More ›

Getting WordPress Prettylinks working in IIS

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New Gmail Design

Thoughts on the new GMail design makeover that just came out... Read More ›

Drag and Drop from a TreeView to a DataGridView

This is a bit of a mixed post, Eclipse / Android development versus Visual Studio / Windows development, and a bit of self promotion of my ‘Hundred Pushups’ app. Read More ›

SportyPal Screen Scraping with PowerShell

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Twitter oAuth from C#

A while back I was working on a ‘post to Twitter’ function that used the original Basic Authentication that the Twitter V1.0 API allowed. Unfortunately, at the end of Aug 2010 they discontinued support for this... Read More ›

PowerMeter from PowerShell

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CurrentCost Power Monitor Software

I recently bought a device to monitor our household energy consumption. After looking at a few I lumped for a [CurrentCost Envi](http://currentcost.com/software-downloads.html). this is a great little device that comes in two parts – a transmitter with jaws that wrap around the main power cable coming into your home and a desktop display unit. Read More ›

Install Windows from a USB Drive

Instructions for creating a bootable USB drive from Windows (to install Windows) Read More ›

Reading List – March 2010

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Generate sitemaps using PowerShell

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Access ODBC Connection Strings