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News has emerged that, after divesting the Talis product suite to Kortext, Sage Publishing has let the Lean Library product suite go in a management buyout. It will be interesting to see what direction the Lean Library product suite takes from here. This means that Technology from Sage is no more. You can read the […]
My original post on the Companion Pi Touchscreen was written not long after being pleased at the results of getting it to work well enough to use in production situations. I followed that up with the addition of a script to monitor the temperature of the Pi. I thought it might be worth an update […]
I wanted a way to track temperature changes on my Raspberry Pis, especially the one that was acting as a Touch Screen for my Bitfocus Companion host. It is in a small case, and I had recently installed a heatsink and fan to aid with heat disipation and so wanted to see how much of […]
I recently found Bitfocus Companion and it has done nothing but provide inspiration for new ideas for buttons to control things which normally I’d have to faff with a mouse to control. Google Meet is our video platform of choice at work, and I was fed up with loosing the window and not being able […]
Bitfocus Companion is an awesome way to make buttons on a keyboard device control other software or hardware. My interest in this is because we run church services with very minimal staff. Usually the one person on the sound desk is the same person operating ProPresenter. We are a small church which has to setup […]
I wanted a way to quickly create directories for each month of the year. I wanted them named using a human readable name, but with a sort order that kept them in month order. Using bash 4 and a pretty standard time formatting command gives us the command you can see in the gist
With love. That’s the high level summary, but what does that mean in practice? And how did I get to that conclusion anyway? In my first arts degree we had regular ‘crits’ at the end of each project brief. We’d lay out our wares in the corridor, supporting work and final pieces, and our work […]
I regularly work from home, and because there has been a great deal of house renovation to be done there are plenty of deliveries to be waiting in for. I work at the back of the house, and being such a solidly built house with blockwork walls throughout – no plasterboard stud walls here – […]
Over the summer and early autumn I had the opportunity to continue work on the Reading Lives project. The project has grown over the last few years from a discussion at a ‘hack-day’ about a column of data in a survey result-set that nobody knew what to do with, to a web based application that allows […]
In a previous post I talked about how I put together some temperature sensors to log temperature in the green house and lounge. The sensors use XRF radio modules to send the data back to a Raspberry Pi (also sporting an XRF module) and are running from a 3.3v button cell battery. The XRF module […]