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CurrentCost + PowerMeter
I managed to get my CurrentCost thingy to submit data to Google PowerMeter, thanks to the tweet-a-watt hack. -
Music of the Naugties
The decade is coming to an end in one month and 8 days and an apathetic wave of Noughties nostalgia seems to be sweeping over the country, a breath of relief after the tentative steps of a new millenium in which nothing broke (except the international banking system, respect for international law and modern socialism) if you will ( Read more... ) -
Robot Chassis
Whlie waiting for Hagen's thesis to print I did a little parametric design for my turtlebot chassis. It's done using GeoGebra. Stuff like the servo and battery dimensions are fixed but most of the other basic properties are variable or dependent thereon.
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Laptop stand
I'm trying to get into the habit of working with my laptop at the right level and with keyboard and mouse at work as it seems to be better for my wrists/general state of "wellness".
A while ago I saw these guys selling laptop stands made of cardboard and many other people who had made them from scratch, so I decided to have a go at making ( Read more... ) -
MP3 Player Restoration
Having stumbled through to my mid-twenties on a archaeic mix of personal music technologies such as "tapes", "minidiscs" and "listening to music through speakers in the privacy of my own home", about 5 years ago I got my first MP3 player. The player in question is a Cowon Iaudio X5 (which is very good by the way, especially with rockbox) but ( Read more... ) -
House letterbox
One of the most annoying things about our new house is the flapping letterbox, we are quite high up (175ft anyway) on a relatively exposed spot and the wind makes it flap continuously.
Fortunately I ordered a big box of Neodymium-Iron-Boron supermagnets a while ago from wondermagnet :
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Plastering
I do realise that decoration is very boring, but this will not stop me from inflicting my enthusiasm on you (and other people):
Dave the plasterer came and did a fantastic job on our fireplace :
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aspviz-3d
Last year Marina and I converted a few hours of frivolous time-wasting into a paper about visualsing answer set problems in 2D ( Read more... ) -
Arabic
I have always liked learning languages, I suspect that this can be attributed to a subconscious feeling that being able to communicate with everybody will some how make the world a better place. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm has not always been met with an equal level of ability or study and so far (at 29 and three quarters), my efforts have led ( Read more... )
