Images on Flickr.com
Just a quick post to mention where you can get at all my latest photos. They’re on www.flickr.com/climberhunt. I post up there far more regularly than I do on this website. Pop along and leave some...
View Article“The Burren” time lapse video locations
Since the release of my new video “The Burren”, I’ve had a few queries as to where the locations are that I used in it. Well, here they are. The names are those used on the Ordinance Survey Ireland...
View ArticleWebsite Downtime
Sincerest Apologies for the downtime over the last week. My hosting provider was doing migration of a bunch of websites from one server to another, and in this process they were upgrading MYSQL,...
View ArticleLoop Head Peninsula Time Lapse
This is a brief article about some behind-the-scenes stuff while I was making my latest time-lapse video, “Loop Head Peninsula”. There’s pictures of the time lapse rig in action, as well as a few...
View ArticleAdd 3 USB ports and an Ethernet Port to Intel Edison / Raspberry Pi Zero for...
I’ve been a user of many Single Board Computers for a while now, and I always like to have the option of plenty of USB ports and and Ethernet port. I recently came across these devices, which combine 3...
View ArticleDIY Intruder Alarm System
Over the past few months, I’ve been building a DIY Intruder Alarm, so here’s a brief overview of it’s layout and functionality. It’s based on a Raspberry Pi, but there’s nothing to say that it...
View Article$5 WiFi enabled Smoke/Gas Detector
Following on from my last post about my DIY Intruder Alarm, I thought I’d post about another wee device I’ve hooked up to it, a Smoke/Combustible Gas/Carbon Monoxide detector that’s WiFi capable, for...
View ArticleOpenLapse Timelapse Controller Parts and Assembly
Here’s the first in a series of posts on my Open Source Hardware project, entitled OpenLapse, which is a rail system for timelapse photography, including everything from the electronics, software, and...
View ArticleFlashing the OpenLapse binary
In order to use the OpenLapse controller, it’s necessary to flash the firmware onto it. This article describes how to do that, and when you’re complete, you should be able to connect into the...
View Articleopenlapse Time-Lapse Rail Interactive 3D Models
Here’s a few 3D models of the time-lapse rail I’ve been working on. I’ve put a good bit of time into the models, as I feel it’s a good way of showing how the construction is done for the various parts...
View Article4-20mA Level Sensor for Kerosene Tank
I’ve been using an ultrasonic sensor in my Kerosene Tank (Home Heating Oil) for a while now, but was not happy with the stability of the readings. Especially on relatively warm days, as the fumes in...
View ArticleLoRaWAN Gateway Build with Raspberry Pi
A few months back I built a full LoRaWAN gateway node for The Things network, and now I’m finally getting around to writing it up. I’d recommend this project to anyone interested in IOT, as it’s very...
View ArticleGet your IOT Project onto the Cellular Network for ~$10
I’ve been toying a lot recently with LoRaWAN networking, even going so far as to build a full gateway and mounting it on my house. As an alternative, I ordered some GSM shields from AliExpress which...
View Article$5 WiFi enabled Smoke/Gas Detector
Following on from my last post about my DIY Intruder Alarm, I thought I’d post about another wee device I’ve hooked up to it, a Smoke/Combustible Gas/Carbon Monoxide detector that’s WiFi capable, for...
View ArticleOpenLapse Timelapse Controller Parts and Assembly
Here’s the first in a series of posts on my Open Source Hardware project, entitled OpenLapse, which is a rail system for timelapse photography, including everything from the electronics, software, and...
View ArticleOff Topic – Movember
Normally my blog contains articles on making, electronics, DIY, etc. This once, I’d like to cover a topic that’s quite different – Movember. What is Movember? “Movember involves the growing of...
View ArticleDIY PCB Manufacture
I had a need recently to make a quick PCB for a pixel controller I’m working on, and I usually send them off to a fab to be manufactured. Sometimes I’m a bit impatient, and this was a fairly...
View ArticleLHT00SU1 Logic Analyser
Recently I started a project using ws2811 RGB Pixel drivers, and wanted to write some software on a Raspberry Pi, ESP8266 or ESP32 that bit-banged the GPIO ports to generate the data stream suitable to...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi High Quality Camera setup for low-latency Video Conferencing
The wonderful people at Raspberry Pi were good enough to send me their latest piece of hardware, the Raspberry Pi High Resolution Camera, plus a couple of lenses. As well as taking a few landscape...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Zero with Pi Camera as USB Webcam
In my previous article, I described how to set up a Raspberry Pi High Quality camera as an IP camera, and use IP Camera Adapter to plug this into your favourite video conference software. Now, go one...
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