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iPhone Brighton Buses webapp/javascript front-end
Here in Brighton a good number of the bus stops have electronic boards, that tell you when the next buses are due. The data for these boards is available online and even provides data for stops that...
View Articlewatch-cp.py
During software development it’s key to minimize the time between editing code and seeing the results of a change. During web-development the constant tweaking of CSS/HTML/Javascript etc means you’re...
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Kite Physics
I’ve finally managed to finish the Kite Physics Demo I started back in October: Kite Physics Demo It’s more of a plaything than anything else. It did give me a chance to try out writing some physics...
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“Ultimate” Arduino Doorbell – part 1 (Hardware)
After a first couple of small Arduino projects I felt the need to make something a bit more useful and permanent. I had seen Roo Reynolds talking about hacking his doorbell to get it onto Twitter and...
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Programming a Picaxe 08m chip
After I got my Arduino I felt the urge to brush up on my general electronics knowledge. The last time I’d really played with any circuits was back in about 1994 when I was studying my Technology GCSE –...
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“Ultimate” Arduino Doorbell – part 2 (Software)
As mentioned in the previous post about my arduino doorbell I wanted to get the doorbell and my Chumby talking. As the Chumby runs Linux, is on the network and is able to run a recent version of Python...
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Blinking Halloween Spider Eyes Hats using PICAXE 08m chips
For some reason I got seized by the idea of creating some electronics for our Halloween costumes this year. In previous years I have gone as far as dying my hair green for Halloween, but that is just...
View ArticleDjango User Profiles and select_related optimisation
If you want to associate extra information with a user account in Django you need to create a separate “User Profile” model. To get the profile for a given User object one simply calls get_profile....
View ArticleA Little Sparql
Quite often I’ll get distracted with an idea/piece of technology and mull it over for quite some time. Most of the time I play through these ideas in my head and don’t do anything with them. It’s often...
View ArticlePorting chrss from Turbogears 1.0 to Django 1.3
For the a period of 18 months or so I slowly ported my chess by rss site (chrss) from Turbogears 1.0 to Django. When I started the port Django 1.1 was the latest version. I took so long to finish the...
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Making a musical Robot Santa ornament using an ATtiny 85
In what is threatening to become a tradition, I made a Christmas ornament again this year. Last year I just made simple tree ornaments using sculpey and fimo. This year things got a bit more involved,...
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