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The Living Map of Manchester powered by Arduino and HERE.
I attended an Internet of Things with Arduino @MadLabUK course last year and thought it would be cool to use an Arduino (in this case a Mega) to display some of the data that is accessible through the HERE maps APIs a.k.a the HERE platform (used to be known as the Nokia Location Platform prior…
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GPSjake – old code I dusted down, jazzed up, tucked in and finally put to bed.
Introducing GPSjake One of the reasons behind me starting this blog was that it would give me a resting ground for a little app I worked on quite a while ago (and for quite a while) but did nothing with. A place where I could document it a little, post the source code for prosperity…
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Cycling Indicator MkII – for the entertainment of a 4 yr old (of course)…
I bought an arduino kit from oomlout which contained a motor, servo and other bits and bobs. Using the kit I upgraded the cycling indicator (see previous post) so that, as well as a light being turned on when the account being monitored sends a ‘Mike is cycling’ tweet, a motor is activated. The motor…
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Building the Internet of Things @madlabuk
Not posted for a while. There’s a few reasons for this. 1. DIY. 2. The Wire. 3. I’m working on a project that’s been in the pipeline for a long time. Anyway, back in June last year I attended an introductory Arduino course run by Omniversity at Madlab, Manchester. It was great fun and I…
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Nokia Maps / TfL Traffic Camera Mashup
Thought it was about time I stepped on the mashup bandwagon, a good number of years after the bandwagon had set out on it’s journey. I’d be wanting to play with a mapping JavaScript API for some time and had seen some examples of people using the Google maps API with live traffic CCTV images…
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Voting with Twitter…
A friend of mine, who lectures at a university, was wondering about getting his students to submit a vote on the outcome of a debate in the days following the lecture. He was wondering about using Twitter for this – in the end he ditched the idea as not all of the class twitterererered. Anyway…
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Arduino @ MadLab, Manchester
Had great fun a couple of weekends ago at the Arduino Introduction to Physical Computing course run by the Omniversity at Madlab, Manchester. I’m interested in putting together a prototype for a second screen which shows information from your mobile phone (communicated via bluetooth) for use when on the push bike. Kind of like Sony…
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Windows Ate (8) Virtual Box
Yeah – think i might be losing it with the post titles. I decided I wanted to take a look at the consumer preview of Windows 8 using some virtualisation software. I had some previous experience of VirtualBox – all good – I used it to run an Ubuntu installation on my PC (Dell Latitude…
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My QRosity gets the better off me.
Quite proud of the title of this post. At a Mobile Monday Manchester meeting back in September last year (2011) QR codes were discussed. Different designs of QR codes were shown. This was interesting because I wasn’t aware that these codes could be styled to some extent using colour and even by playing with the…
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wordpress….
So it’s been a while since I put anything up on the ol’ internet. Way back when I worked on a couple of classic asp sites and I also used to manage content on the website for a band I played in – basically maintaining HTML pages – but nothing since. After speaking to some…