Labelin’ Made Easy
Recently at DefProc there's been a shift towards organising, a late 'spring clean' if you will. As more projects get taken on, more parts and bits appear around [...]
November 2019
October 2018
Hello World for LoRaWAN
Welcome The Things Conference UK workshop participants, and others on the internet. This workshop guide is designed to let you start from very simple beginnings, and take you [...]
November 2017
How to Reduce Arduino Uno Power Usage by 95%
Sometimes you have to use an Arduino UNO, instead of something more efficient like an Arduino Pro Mini — maybe you're using an Arduino shield… Sometimes you have [...]
July 2017
Hackday: Connecting Sensors with LoRaWAN
Now there's a larger coverage area of LoRaWAN in Liverpool that provides free access to the public The Things Network service, it's the ideal time to start connecting [...]
July 2016
Sizing Logos in KiCAD
There are some guides on adding a logo to KiCAD and making PCB artwork in KiCAD, but as they are from an earlier version, they still recommend using [...]
June 2016
Unbricking a Pro-Micro Board
I had a little trouble first setting up the Arduino compatible Pro Micro board in Ubuntu, but with that little hiccup out of the way, it's been a [...]
April 2015
Sparkfun Pro Micro ‘Serial Device Busy’
When I first started using them, I did have a little trouble uploading code to the Sparkfun Pro Micro, under Ubuntu 14.04LTS, using the Arduino IDE 1.6.8. The [...]
April 2014
Building Doodlebots
Doodlebots are simple to construct drawing robots that create random coloured patterns as they vibrate around on a sheet of paper. I've run a couple of workshops on [...]
July 2011
Git Workflow for Self-Updating Sites
Because manual integration and merging is a “disaster that you just haven't had yet”, how is it possible to keep both sets of changes easily combined? Revision control; using git's merging tools and distributed repository structure to keep everthing running smoothly.
Git-Upload-Pack: Command Not Found
This is an older post therefore the content may no longer be accurate. So you installed git and ikiwiki on your shared server and created your ikiwiki [...]