Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
So for the past few weeks, on and off, I have been focusing on hardware – building a magnificent flying machine – a quadcopter. I bought a build it yourself quadcopter kit from ebay, just for quickness – it was around £120 and came with all the required bits to…
Short reminder to myself on how to create a new server repo and do the initial push to it from a workstation. On the Server: cd Repositories mkdir Project.git git init –bare On the Workstation: cd Project git init git add * git commit “Initial commit” git remote add origin…
The first part of this ‘getting things up and running’ series can be found here. 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. So, Wi-Fi… I bought…
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…) Whilst the Pi does have a bunch of GPIO pins that can be used to interface to motor boards and sensors, the fact it…
After 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… I now have my second helping of Pi – again I got a…
I eventually got round to ordering a Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB RAM). As you probably know this is a £25 ($35) computer running a 700MHz ARM processor and capable of decoding displaying HiDef 1080p video. I got one to experiment with as a media player for daughter #1 room,…
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…
Today, I was restoring a backup of a WordPress site I have. Copied all the files into a folder, squirted all the data back into MySQL and set up a separate website in IIS. All was fine, I could browse to the main page www.domain.com/index.php and got the page I…
Okay, so I like the new Gmail design – cleaner and more whitespace – just looks much more modern that the existing one. But it’s still bloody annoying ! The thing is, I hate having to go across to the little ‘back arrow’ reply icon, click the dropdown next to…
An application I was working on recently needed the ability for the user to drag a TreeView node onto a DataGridView, and when ‘dropped’ create a new row in the DataGridView. It is not difficult, but took me a while to put all the relevant pieces together, so I thought…
