You may remember a while back that I discussed the joke my son and I sent to the AstroPi aboard the International Space Station (we even checked the humidity for them whilst we were there!).
(more…)?????? It ran!!!! ??????
Telling jokes to Astronauts on the Space Station with a Raspberry Pi!
We decided to brighten up the daily routine of the astronauts on the International Space Station today by telling them a joke and measuring the humidity for them, here’s how we did it!
(more…)Latitude and Longitude – Join the dots with Strava!
I’ve written a few projects in the past that require Latitude and Longitude to work, so when my son started learning about these amazing things we had to have a play with them!
(more…)Laravel: Forgetting a relationship after processing
You may have retrieved a related record from the database to do some kind of computation on, but then not want to return it from the controller. Here’s how to do it.
(more…)Laravel: Retrieving columns from a model, and a relationship
I scratched my head over this for quite sometime today, but after a lot of digging I found a solution…
(more…)Amazon Arbitrage Flips Made Easy
It certainly sounds a bit of a mouthful and it’s a huge thing if you’re involved in the Amazon selling space, I’ve immersed myself in this space for a year and this is just one of the tools I built.
(more…)Blink Home scheduling Zones
The Blink home security cameras are a great little piece of kit, relatively cheap, no storage costs and no wiring requirements (with an alleged two year battery life), there’s a lot to like about them.
However… There is a flaw that has seen customers return these smart little units – you can’t zone them. For example you may have one camera on the front door which you want armed at all times and one on the back garden that you don’t want armed during the day because children are playing there.
(more…)Concatenating videos with FFMpeg
If you end up here, you’re either:
- Tearing your hair out with FFMpeg, trying to do something clever and cursing – a lot!!
- Or you’ve followed my saga of the last few days on Twitter.
Tracking runners without draining their phone battery
Running a GPS unit on a phone drains your battery quickly with all the work it has to do (measurement reports, transmission alongside your normal apps), when you are going to be running for a LONG time you need to think outside the box!
(more…)Google when you die?
This isn’t such a technical post, but I suddenly had this thought – what will happen to all my Google Photos of my children if something happens to me. There won’t be negatives or packets of photograph’s in a drawer, they’re going to need access to my Google account!
