Two things to concentrate on today, getting the stage box rack populated and following conversation with starting to Jonathan last night, to look at Raspberry Pi boot. So task 1 Racking up the stage box equipment It is a shame that we do not have all of the radio receivers for the stage box yet, […]
Author: andy
January 30, 2019
andy
The Debconf Video team has got together for a sprint… Travel. I asked my wife to drop me off at Waterbeach station for 09:45, from there I caught a train to Kings Cross, Walked across the road to St Pancras and caught the Eurostar To Brussels, and then a local service into Diegem. A short […]
August 3, 2018
andy
We want to be able to record the temperature of the outside air for our weather station. We can do this using a Thermistor. This is a resistor that changes resistance relative to its temperature. Unfortunately we are unable to measure resistance directly, we can however measure a voltage. Consider the circuit below: ____ Vcc […]
Summer Project – Weather Station
Debian ,FLOSS ,Open Hardware ,Projects ,Uncategorized ,Weather StationAugust 3, 2018
andy
This summer’s project we (Isy Simpkins, Alys George, Andy Simpkins) intend to build a weather station. The project can be split into various sections and today we decided the scope of the project. Initially we decided what we want to measure: Temperature Humidity Precipitation Wind speed and direction Light Air pressure We’ve also decided that […]
June 21, 2016
andy
As part of a wider project I have been looking at how to reuse the keyboards found on Thinkpad laptops. The connector for these is no longer available (at least not in small quantities), however the Molex SlimStack range appears to be a compatible fit. I was unable to find a simple breakout board for this series […]
June 17, 2016
andy
Last weekend saw us attend our 2nd Build It Live home building show, this time in Bicester, Oxfordshire. We went along having pretty much decided that since the turn key builder we had identified had fallen through, we would have to go it alone, and werte looking for CAD packages that could help us. There […]
May 18, 2016
andy
Last weekend saw a small group get togeather in Cambridge to hack on the OpenTAC. OpenTAC is an OpenHardware OpenSoftware test platform, designed specificly to aid automated testing and continious intergration. Aimed at small / mobile / embedded targets OpenTAC v1 provides all of the support infrastructure to drive up to 8 DUTs (Device Under […]