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The 1st Version of Robot Spelling
The 1st Version of Robot Spelling
Spelling Test are Not Fun Each week, my sons aged 9 (3rd grade) and 7 (2nd grade) receive a set of words to remember and every Friday they get a spelling test. Neither of them are big fans of spelling tests. My eldest son, Ben hates being told that he is wrong. So, when revising and I tell him he didn’t spell a word correctly he can get quite upset. That’s not much fun. Through a chance encounter…
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Saving Money on Cellular IoT
Saving Money on Cellular IoT
Learning from the past
Blackberry and later the iPhone really changed the mobile industry, not just from user experience, but from the way service providers (carriers) packaged and sold their services.
Data on mobile phones used to be extremely expensive. So expensive in fact that as a user would want to use as little of it as possible. On Nokia Smartphones any application that attempted to…
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Socially Distancing the Podcast
Changes
This has been the first full week at home. Emma the boys and I. Over the last week we’ve converted my study into an office space for Emma and I, before we did that we build desks and setup a class room for the two boys.
School work continues to come, supplied electronically. Matthew claims that this version of school is harder than normal school. Emma and I believe that this is due to the…
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Day 4
The morning
This is the hard bit. So, it is coming up to midday, I’ve reviewed the audio I recorded yesterday. At the time I thought it was good. Then I listened back to it. Dear lord. There is a humming in the background from a water purifier that lives in the basement, and there is me, exasperated at my own mistakes trying to re-record the audio and fluffing some of it. Then there is the…
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Day 3 of Launching a Podcast - Recording and Re-recording with bitmaps
Day 3 of Launching a Podcast – Recording and Re-recording with bitmaps
It is up… kinda…
So far today I’ve managed to:
Re-recorded the credits for my initial pilot podcast
Upload by first episode !
Create icons, banner art, blog post buttons
Add the embedded player to my statically generated website
Submitted the podcast to:
Spotify
Apple
Now I’m just waiting for the confirmation emails that it has been accepted!
Recorded the first full episode
It has…
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Day 2 of Launching a Podcast - Site Selection
Day 2 of Launching a Podcast – Site Selection
Whoops, I didn’t hit post yesterday. Sorry.. I was busy selecting a Podcast hosting service. This morning I’ve got some time while my recording studio (the basement) is busy – the washing machine is on!
Selecting a Podcast Hosting Service
I could do this myself. I could extend my AWS developer account, host the media on their servers, setup a WordPress website from scratch, add a podcast plugin,…
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One week to launch a Podcast
Sharing to Learn
The number of people who ask me "What is it you do?", "What do you mean by industrial research?" and "How do you do research in IT?" is huge. In fact, it is a question I think my Mum has been asking me since I started in industrial research.
Recently I’ve been thinking about how I do my role and what techniques I use. It has been quite cathartic and educational. Just writing down…
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The Second Waggle is Out !
The Second Waggle is Out !
It Snuck Out
They say software doesn’t get released, it sneaks out.
I am pleased to say that Waggle My Mouse version 2 is now available on Gum Road ! This new release features a whole bunch of new features and re-written old ones.
You can find the new version on Waggle My Mouse available for purchase on Gum Road
As I previously mentioned I’ve provided a copy of the new version of Waggle to…
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Waggle My Mouse 2.0
Waggle My Mouse 2.0
Creating an update
I created waggle a couple of years ago to scratch a personal itch, loosing my mouse pointer on one or more high definition screens. The application was fairly simple – want to find your mouse pointer? – Then shake it from side to side. The application would draw multicoloured circles around the mouse pointer. Once you stopped shaking the mouse the circles would vanish.
This led…
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Happy Father's Day
Happy Father’s Day
It was an idea that Dad and I had kicked about as a bit of thought experiment when I was in my late teens / early twenties. But there it was in real life. All set out in the shopping mall and implemented by a large clothing chain 20 years after we’d kicked the idea about. Funny. I had the sudden urge to tell him.
“Dad, you’ll never guess what I just saw… “
Funny how loss can sneak up on you like…
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Detecting a Waggle
I spent a long while thinking and discussing with others how a waggle could be detected. Two I guess opposite ideas were proposed: Sine wave mapping : This involves smoothing in the incoming data of “delta X” values and then mapping a sine wave to it, if the two overlap within a degree of tolerance, then a waggle exists. Simple Threshold : This is simply, if the “delta X” value passes a set…
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Continuing to Waggle My Mouse
Continuing to Waggle My Mouse
Getting the Waggle On Development of the Waggle My Mouse application has been going well. I’ve over come a number of issues, I can now track the mouse pointer, and can capture the quick changes in the mouse pointers location. Two outstanding technical issues arise. These are: How do draw a highlighted shape over the mouse pointer? How do I know when the mouse has been waggled? Detecting a Mouse…
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Flying to Protest
Dublin Airport before the sun rises I’m typing this on a London bound flight. I’ve taken countless flights, but I’ve never done this before. I’m a little nervous, and a bit excited. Over the last couple of months I’ve met and become friends with a bunch of new people, a ber eclectic group, from models to town planners. We’ve become friends on line, and I’m going to meet most of them face to face…
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Waggle my MegaMaker
New blog post on making tings and brexit - "Waggle my MegaMaker"
Wow it is hard work to fit everything in. I’ve been working hard on progressing and investigating the two ideas I proposed last week; Waggle my mouse : Find your mouse pointer on Windows desktops with very high resolution monitors, or multiple displays. Social Media authorization for groups : Supporting the Brexit campaigns I’ve seen on Facebook who are struggling to all members of the group to…
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TLDR
TLDR; Too Long Didn’t Read
Precedes a paragraph used by an author to introduce a short summation of a longer piece.
You are either a fan of this blog, or I or someone else has sent you an email with the acronym “TLDR;”. This phrase means “Too Long Didn’t Read”. It is used by some authors, including myself to provide a short concise synopses of the email. If you haven’t got time to read the entire…
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Brexit - Leaving EU: UK citizens to be tortured and imprisoned without trial
Brexit – Leaving EU: UK citizens to be tortured and imprisoned without trial
(Opinion) In a recent article published in Prospect magazine and reported on by a number of news services, including Sky News in a piece titled “Leaving EU ‘Could Boost National Security’“, Sir Richard Dearlove the ex-head of the UK’s national security service, MI6 was reports as saying that Brexit could boost national security. Sir Dearlove wrote: “Brexit would bring two potentially important…
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Hello Mince Pie Day
Hello Mince Pie Day
And tho it came to be that this day shall ever more be known as Mince Pie Day! We all have foods we love and for me it is the humble mince pie. The smell of the mincemeat, the stickiness of the substance when it escapes the pastry and caramelises on the outside of the case are all reminders of the most awesome mince pies that my grandmother used to make. They evoke memories of Christmas past and…
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