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Twitter
Having used twitter "properly" now for a couple of weeks, I may be hooked - sort of. I'm finding it a great stream of information from organisations, but that the people on it aren't so interesting - even when their feeds aren't full of replies to random people's comments ( Read more... ) -
Arduino Course @ Hackspace
My tendency to pick up the arduino microcontroller I'd bought to learn/play/do stuff with petered out a few weeks ago, so I thought I'd jumpstart things again by
a) Leaving all my relevant components and stuff at Hackspace, so that I would be able to work on them somewhere without other distractions, and
b) Sign up for one of their Arduino ( Read more... ) -
How to fix politics
I think you need three things to "fix" politics in this country so that it's truly run for all the people. Or at least, these are the biggest three hurdles ( Read more... ) -
Destinations
I'm trying to put together a list of places I haven't visited yet that that I would very much like to go to. Here's what I've got so far:
Europe: Rome, Barcelona, Athens, Monaco.
(Done: Much of the UK & Ireland, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev, Tromso, Helsinki, Tallinn, Istanbul, Dubrovnik)
North America: Toronto, ( Read more... ) -
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Stuff that is improving my life (part 2)
Having an even more significant impact on my life than computerised filing is my latest diet, which I'm managing easily (at least for now) largely because of the tools I'm using.
The first of these is my new Withings WiFi bathroom scales. I bought these thinking them an expensive (but cool) frippery, but at least they would handle my weight (I'm ( Read more... ) -
[Hacking] More fun with the Arduino
After doing another project - a knight-rider-like array of red LEDs with a dial that changed the speed - I have found myself suddenly derailed into much deeper territory with dakari_mane's suggestion that I make a Blood Bowl scoreboard.
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Fun with microcontrollers.
So having joined Hackspace and then realising that what I needed to get started with a roomful of tools is to learn how to use them, my interest was picqued by the talk of Arduino microcontrollers ( Read more... )
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