I have a good few Odroid U3 SBCs I'm currently evaluating.During this process I have been taking current measurements frommy bench supply whilst getting the U3 to perform various painful tasks such as 1080pvideo playback and CPUBURN on 1,2,3 &a...
Just a quick one here,I was rather taken with the total over the topness of this solution. Apparently members of London Hackerspace are using a BBB+camera and Open CV to check the contents of theirwashing up bowl!!Just the job for us lazy engine...
OK .OK ..had enough FOSDEM Didn't go but find the idea appealing or did go but couldn't even get in to some of the talks thentry out the video resources. For years they have videoed an increasing number of the talksthis year even more than ever...
One nice bit of information I got out of the Fosdem trip was thatFedora supports 3D printers straight out of the box, in fact they have since F19 so I totally missed that one!!The Fedora stand had gone totally 3DPrinter crazy with at leas...
First of a few pictures and vids I managed to take at FOSDEM Benjamin CabeShows us his IOT demo at the Eclipse Stand, check out the Google Glass beenused to control the toy Greenhouse(Link below for build data!).www.youtube.com/watchSorry for the cam...
I'm currently waiting for my HackRF to arrive via the Kickstarter so I recently received anice update report showing what folk are doing with the HackRF Jawbreaker which is thedevelopment release of the Hack RF.https://vimeo.com/81334997 H...
Since I have made lots of friends in the QL community I'm very happy to say that the QL is now 30Based on the 8bit version of the 68K the 68008 and 128K of RAM it opened a whole range of3rd party hardware/software and still after all this time ...
I saw this on the BBC??? it shows that there's nothing new in re-using even the most banal of tech likea kid's toy into a technical weapon...Here's more on Gizmodowww.youtube.com/watch
Is here again 1st and 2nd of Feb in BrusselsAs they say 400+Lectures and 5000+ attendees. FOSDEM is huge and has topics from Open source Mappingto Linux to ARM64 to Big Data to social issues. I'm going but who else is from the Element 14 commun...
We have had this RasWIK kit from Ciseco fro a while now and now Christmas has come finally I have timeto have a go opening the kit up and going through the online instructions for the first 17 or so pre-workedexperiments and the further guided projec...
If you are in the area of Edinburgh Hackerspace you may fancy dragging one of your technophobe relatives to one of the Arduino Workshops been held in January. Soldering Workshop: Saturday 11th January 2:30 – 5pm£18/20<http://edinsolder-ml.eve...
Currently involved with the rather fun PiNoir & Santa Catcher Challenge oneof the main Components for the Challenge Kit is the PIFace Control & DisplayWe wanted to know what's inside and what's connected to what but unfortunatel...
Had a great time at the Derby Makerfaire this weekend and as usual took a load of video of the various exhibits and tradershope you like the general theme. If you are from the area or can get down to the next one it will definitely be worth a visit.&...
Hi all just been working on a rather nice simple bit of kit that hopefully will help keep our projects together in one piece.I produce cases etc for several SBCs such as the ODROID familay and the Raspberry Pi as such I have a whole swathe of toys th...
Managed to get a ticket to last weeks Cambridge Raspberry Jam which seems to be held semi regular every 3 months!!This particular Jam is particularly well supported and tickets always sell out fast.This is not that supprising as you get a large selec...
Just had this Robot video "pushed " to me via the Y'tube.Normally these 'bots are rather limited but a 5* budget of $20K has made quite a neat Job! www.youtube.com/watchwww.youtube.com/watch And Marika at the 23rd Ro...
This weekend we had the oppotunity to travel to Wuthering Bytes held at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.Wuthering bytes was a two day event Saturday was the talks and Sunday the workshops. Wuthering Bytes "A Weekend Festival of Technology In the ...
My mate's Raspberry PI is somewhat faulty and crashes once it gets warm or the likesso I decided to use my FLIR i7(new toy spoiler ) to video it during booting XBMC,then again playing some videos off the USB stick. note that during all of this ...
Whilst still on the historical bent here's a short video I took of the WITCH/Harwell Dekatron which is the oldest working stored program computer.Again you can visit it at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. I just lo...
This is the tour around Bletchley Park and took in all the old school Crypto stuff including a trip around The National Meuseum of Computing.There are 100's of small exhibits there but one ofo the best is the Colossus the worlds first ele...
Shropshire LUG carry the message about Linux and Open Source to the public again this SeptemberThe group has a table to show Linux, open source software and hardware to radio amateurs and others attending the Telford Hamfest organised by ...
