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New year, new server
Well I always like to celebrate a New Year in style, so to celebrate 2014 (the busiest year for this website ever) I’ve finally upgraded my legacy Supanames web package to something a bit faster. The...
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Controlling Lego motors with the Ryanteck Raspberry Pi board
I’ve reviewed a few Raspberry Pi add on boards before, including the PiFace which includes a multitude of inputs and outputs, and the minimalistic LEDborg which has a very bright single multicoloured...
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How to find a Raspberry Pi on your network
Here’s a quick tip to finding a Raspberry Pi (and anything else) on your network using the nmap network scanning security tool. Quite often you might want to run a ‘headless’ Raspberry Pi without a...
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ASCII camera with the Holga 120d
So now I’ve finished my digital Holga project, one of the things I wanted to do was to get a bit creative with it – so here’s my first attempt at an ASCII art generating camera. High contrast images...
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5 geeky DIY Christmas gift ideas
With Christmas rapidly approaching, one of my aims this year is to at least attempt a bit of DIY Christmas gifting. So if you know me, there are potential spoilers ahead and stop reading this right...
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Raspberry Pi powered General Election Swingometer
In the UK it’s election time again and the BBC are preparing to wheel out the latest version of their Swingometer. The BBC Swingometer dates back to 1959, and was a visual device for displaying the...
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Indiana Jones Idol Swap party game
My sister in law does epic children’s parties (a couple of years back I had a lot of fun playing Snape and being mean to all the kids who weren’t in Slytherin) and this year I was given a request to...
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Send pre-filled tweets using tweetyourmp.com
Rather excitingly my little side project tweetyourmp.com was mentioned by pukka chef Jamie Oliver as part of his campaign for healthy eating: Big yellow sign After my panic that I might not have enough...
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Exotic pets
This week has seen the launch of World Animal Protection’s Exotic Pets campaign – including a campaign action to stop Turkish Airlines from alledgedly trafficking endangered Grey parrots, and a spoof...
View ArticleOrford Ness Lighthouse VR tour
With the sad news that Orford Ness lighthouse will be demolished, here are a few 360 photos I took with a borrowed Ricoh Theta S when visiting the site on a tour organised by the Orford Ness Lighthouse...
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