Category: Cool things

1-wire, Node-Red, Domoticz & Grafana

September 1, 2016 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Home Automation , IoT , Linux , MQTT - by admin - No Comments

Recently I posted a shiny graph of my garage temperature after I’d put a car with a hot engine in there. The spikes were fairly pronounced, and it was possibly to see where I’d left the door open whilst I worked on the car, before going for a test drive […]

Setting up the Squeezebox Receiver

November 30, 2011 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Technology - by admin - No Comments

I’ve got a variety of Squeezebox Receivers dotted about the house, playing synchronized music and audio on demand. Due to the lack of a remote control requirement (using the Android controller), I opted to get the receivers on their own. However, the setup procedure is highly dependent on the remote […]

STS 130 Landing

February 22, 2010 - Cool things , Shuttle - by admin - No Comments

Fantastic footage of the last ever night time landing of a Space Shuttle. STS-130 safely makes it to the ground, and the night time situation allows for great footage of the jets of flame coming out the APU exhausts at the tail root. The flames happen all the time, but […]

Sure/Smartie LCDProc

December 22, 2009 - Cars , Computers , Cool things , Geek , Land Rover , Linux - by admin - 3 Comments

Recently I’ve been looking at getting a computing device into the Land Rover. Short of buying a full sized 7″ touch screen, I opted to go for a slightly cheaper £20 4×20 LCD display. This was more to be proof of concept, and give me a starter to work on, […]

PS3 and Matroska? Could be soon…

December 29, 2008 - Computers , Cool things - by admin - 3 Comments

Word is that the Matroska container format will be officially supported by DivX 7. Surely a good thing, as Sony have a deal with Divx to provide decoding software for the PS3. Maybe this will spell the end of having to transcode those ubiquitous MKV files for use on a […]