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  • M5Paper Field Notes

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    I used the M5Paper to create a weather station display. The ESP32 listens to local UDP messages from the weather stations (local temp, wind speed & direction), and connects to MQTT server to retrieve various other details. I use the internal temperature sensor for internal temperature and humidity. The display updates various sections when new…

  • Why Django and Docker

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    As I progress with my Django projects, I have been looking to Docker to help build, test and deploy the project. Below I describe why I am using Docker, and in future posts, I will document how I use it locally and with AWS. When building a project, I have the following goals: 1) Reduce…

  • Creating the Spy Screen Saver

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    The security guys at work love to find unlocked computers and ‘Hoff’ them, basically leave a browser open with a picture of David Hasselhoff. I decided to fight back and created the Spy Screen Saver. There are two ways to create a screensaver on MacOSX. One is using Quartz Composer which allows you to build…

  • Submitting information to JotForm from an iOS App

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    This basic example will show you how to get submit data to a JotForm form from an iOS app. JotForm makes it extremely quick easy to setup a form, and it provides all the backend support you need to manage that data. If you have a need to submit some data from an iOS app…

  • Review: Vibram FiveFingers Running Shoes

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    I have been running on and off for a fair while and I was hoping to increase the distances that I was running. At the time I was running 6km two or three times and week and 12km once a week. My aim was to increase the distance I was running to a consistent 12km…

  • Race log from 15th of March 2010

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    Racing the week before was spoilt by breaking the outhaul. This week I replaced most of the control lines to avoid a repeat of the incident. Of all of the lines which has made the biggest difference was replacing the elastic that holds the centerboard into the boat. This made going downwind a lot easier…

  • Pictures of Shauna Racing on Lygon St

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    Caught a bunch of Photos of Shauna (#84) racing in the Honda Hybrid Womens 3 Day tour.

  • Racelog 18/7/09: Didn’t Break Anything

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    Strong northly breezes provided challenging racing this week. This was the first decent breeze that I had the boat out in. The biggest news is that I didn’t break anything on the boat and everything pretty much held together. The first couple of laps I took it relatively easy and made sure the boat was…

  • Putting the toad back together

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    After the trouble on the 25th, ‘The Toad’ needed to be put back together again. Of course the obvious initial solution would be to stick a piece of tape over the hole and keep sailing. However that solution would persist for some time until the boat was brought home. Seeing I needed the trailer to…

  • Sailing on the 25th of April

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    Saturday’s sailing was quite windy. I figured that it was going to be a great day to shake the last of the troubles out of the boat. With the help of Gary Todd I got the rudder pintels back on tight, after they had been working loose against a misaligned support at the back of…