When I was a child, I longed for Mousetrap. Yes, the game from Ideal that promised primary school aged children up and down the country a game combined with a Heath Robinson device. Unfortunately the technology of the day could not deliver an experience in excess of my imagination, and I drifted out of adolescence with a mousetrap sized hole in my life. That was until now. A chap who trades under the unusual and likable moniker …
I’ve been looking for a Raspberry Pi project to get my teeth into and, after a flash of inspiration whilst planning our Scouts programme for the year, have finally found the perfect project. The Final Frontier Space has always held a fascination with me, and it’s now possible to launch, track and recover a payload, with GPS tracking, real-time video and telemetry on a modest budget, certainly one our Scout group can afford. Inspired by a …
A minor update to the blog; finally moved it off a sub-domain to the main site, and moved the demos to a sub-domain. The domain was originally purchased by my for my kids so that they could learn web development, but was never used. My daughter is now doing a GCSE in Computer Science, so I’ll be setting up a new sub-domain for her to experiment on. In addition to this, and in light of …