Some people really need to learn that it really is “just a game”. It is not real life. Grow up…
Not really safe for kids, contains lots of swearing. Funny as **** though!
Jan 062012
The annual boxing day meet at Wickham Square, just North of Fareham is a classic car, bike and agricultural vehicle gathering. There is no organiser as such, it is a free for all meet, park where you can, as early as you can, and wonder at all the vehicles you won’t see at other shows.
I still had the Harley last time we went, so that must be 4 years ago at least. This year I went with my buddy Mike, taking my Suzuki for the ease of parking.
I only took about 50 photos and (after playing with it in Snapseed on my iPad) this is my favourite shot.
Immaculate condition, look at the phone number. Been a while since we have had single digit phone numbers!
Dec 232011
Browsing around WordPress.com this morning I happened across The Daily Post. This blog, run by the WordPress team sets a daily and weekly post article to inspire the reader to post on their own blog. Whilst I realise that this is primarily aimed at WordPress.com users, I love the idea and want to take part.
Whilst I fear that a daily post is far too demanding on my time and tiny brain, I believe that I can at least achieve the weekly photo challenge.
As my wordpress.com blog is defunct (and marked private before you go looking!), I intend to take part in the challenge and post it on this very website instead.
Keep an eye on The Daily Post and if you want to take part, it’s a simple task to start your own (free) blog at wordpress.com, or elsewhere, and play along. I am sure they won’t mind!
Some 7 months ago I last posted about using an Arduino rapid prototyping system to read the maximum and minimum temperature from a temperature sensor.
Just after I wrote that post I put the Arduino on the table and forgot about it. Tidying the table the other day (yes, it was that messy) guess what I found? Yep. :)
Having more time on my hands with the dark evenings closing in I decided to hook it up and see what was there. It was the same program that was running when I wrote that post.
I watched a few videos on the portable i device from the most excellent Jeremy Blum, a series of tutorials on YouTube about the Arduino. Specifically, tutorial video 6 about using “Processing”, an Open Source application for the computer to do lots of, well, schtuff.
I set the Arduino up with the TMP36 temperature sensor (the good one, not the duff one!) and nothing else, just to feed the temperature (in degrees C) to the serial input of the PC (aka the USB port).
I haven’t gone any further than re-writing Jeremy’s original sketch to suit my own needs, reading the incoming temperature from the Arduino into processing and displaying the temp on the PC screen:
But, it’s red, not green like Jeremy’s version! That’s because, in writing the program I wanted to integrate the RGB functionality from the original version (inspired by the John Boxall‘s tutorial over at Tronixstuff) to show red when too cold (turn the heating on or put on a sweater) green when the temperature’s OK, and blue when it’s too hot (turn the AC on).
The program’s really basic, there’s no “degrees C”, it’s just a number, it’s not centered in the box and I can’t figure out how to export it to an EXE file but, guess what? I am really chuffed!
I have to admit that I am more into the standalone type project, for example the 3x3x3 cube (YouTube link), rather than connecting the unit to the PC but this was a cool learning experience. I have a few other projects in mind, including a fiendish puzzle system for my Explorers…
Thanks John and Jeremy!
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