My webcam has broken, something that I have been using a lot during the last few months for some reason. A friend of mine suggested that I use the mic and camera on my mobile phone instead. There is a simple app ‘droidcam’ that makes the phone behave as a simple webcam, it also has […]
Category: Debian
June 3, 2020
andy
At work we have a wonderful pyhon tool that we are able to send CoAP messages to and from our products. Perfect for development work. However recently I needed to install a copy of the tools onto my personal laptop because the only work laptops I have access to have completely dead batteries and so […]
August 3, 2019
andy
I write this on Monday whilst sat in the airport in São Paulo awaiting my onward flight back to the UK and the fun of the change of personnel in Downing street that has been something I have fortunately been able to ignore whilst at DebConf. [Edit: and finishing writing the Saturday after getting home […]
July 8, 2019
andy
With the release of Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” completing in the small hours of yesterday morning (0200hrs UTC or thereabouts) most of the ‘release parties’ had already been and gone…. Not so for the Cambridge contingent who had scheduled a get together for the Sunday [0], knowing that various attendees would have been working on […]
July 7, 2019
andy
I spent all day smoke testing the install images for yesterday’s (this mornings – gee just after midnight local so we still had 11 hours to spare) Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” release. This year we had our “Biglyest test matrix ever”[0], 111 tests were completed at the point the release images were signed and the […]
March 10, 2019
andy
I am slowly making progress. I am quite pleased with myself for slowly moving beyond triage, test, verify to now beginning to understand what is going on with some bugs and being able to suggest fixes :-) That said my C++ foo is poor and add in QT as well and #917711 is beyond me. […]
March 9, 2019
andy
I didn’t get a huge amount done today – A bit of email config for Andy followed by many installation tests to reproduce #911036, then to test and confirm the patch has fixed it. I can’t read a word of Japanese but thankfully Hideki provided the appropriate runes I needed to ‘match’ so I was […]
January 31, 2019
andy
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]