Electronics geek, phone phreak, whiteboard enthusiast, broadcasting nerd, amateur photographer, general troublemaker
As if by magic: Canterbury Hackspace
I could take credit for inspiring this, but instead I’ll say what an amazing coincidence. Andee tweeted at me today, saying whether I’d be interested in helping start a Canterbury based Hackspace. And my reply was: “hells yeah”. (and as it turns out he hadn’t read my last blog post… spooky) So we went for [...]
System Design approach to Hackerspaces
So my course is in Computer Systems Engineering – and recently we’ve had Dstl come and talk to us about Integrated Systems Engineering. Which has made me start thinking of everything as a system (again!). Here’s what they give as a definition of a ‘system’ A system is a set of parts which, when combined, [...]
Palladium
Finally, I managed to replace my ancient desktop PC, beckett, with something that was designed in this century. Going with my new naming scheme (elements) I’ve named it Palladium. Palladium (pronounced /pəˈleɪdiəm/, pə-LAY-dee-əm) is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pd and an atomic number of 46. Quoeth Wikipedia. I decided on a budget [...]
Body QR Code
I like QR Codes. I’ve made QR Poems before now, and the idea of having a barcode printed on my hand has been knocking around my head for a while, so I thought I’d give it another shot. Unfortunately I didn’t do it very well. Note to self: paint sticks to paper better than skin [...]