To pull a random radio station from my stream list, using vlc, jshon and curl on the terminal, enter the following:
It’s not terribly efficient, but what the heck, it’s only ran once per radio station 
One of the better shots I took of the Angel of the North.
Taken on the way back from Maker Faire in Newcastle
Taken with a Fujifilm s4500, auto-mode, nothing fancy, but it turned out pretty well.
Second reboot as part of continuing upgrades to the server – double the RAM now!
As always, let me know if anything broke during the upgrade.
Server rebooted at 1am as part of the update process.
As usual, let me know if anyone has any issues.
It’s been a while, I know, but I’ve finally got around to updating various bits on here, including and update on my RS-485 projects along with a new page for my Micro-CNC Milling Machine.
I also have uploaded a new app to the Google Play app store, CheerLights Live Wallpaper which pulls updates from the CheerLights Project, changing the colour of the home-screen wallpaper to match the current CheerLights colour (with a latency of around 15 seconds or so).
User warning: CheerLights does seem to like ‘white’ in the early hours of the morning… sadists!
Until next time!
Finally got them all soldered up… only to find I’m exactly one screw terminal block short.
Dangit.
I’m currently slated to present a talk at the CSLU (Lancaster University’s Computing Society) on serial communications with micro-controllers.
In addition to the talk, there will be a lab session where we will be working on a simple, practical communication scheme using Arduino micro-controllers and these beauties:
Arduino RS-485 Shields for the Arduino
All ready to solder up, when I have the stacking headers that is – shipping from Hong Kong takes way to long!
I’ll update when I have more information about the talk, and after the fact will update the ‘Talks’ page on here with the slides, should anyone want to follow along.
Decided I needed a change on the site, something that would work across devices and screen sizes, that wasn’t fixed-width and had a more article-y feel to it.
This is what I found on the wordpress theme list, an it is close to those goals, but not quite there yet. Expect some alterations for a while, but I think this is much nicer than before!
Stirling Castle Panoramas
A few panorama shots taken with my HTC One X from Stirling Castle at various points around the audio tour – which I highly recommend!
Visited the Falkirk Wheel ( http://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/ ) yesterday, ’tis a neat bit of engineering.
Didn’t do the boat trip though, although it was tempting!
The “Falkirk Wheel” from the hill nearby.
Taken with my HTC One X