My wife and I have been using these Rear Viz mirrors for a couple of years while riding our electric bikes. They are a perfect match - easy to use and exactly where we want them while we whizz in and out of the traffic! We bought a third for our son who was about to start a trip of the South Island of NZ, and he loved it too.

Just finished a cool project. Created a wifi garage door opener using an Onion Omega 2+ and a relay expansion board. It has a web cam so that I can check if it is safe to open/close either door, and an activation button for each door. Uses relays attached to the manual switch connections for the garage doors. A web page is generated in PHP on the Omega, which can be accessed by any device on the home network. Very convenient when working outside with just the phone in my pocket, or coming back from a bike ride or walk without a garage remote in my pocket!
http://www.signsofsuccess.co.nz/garage-door-opener-a-tinier-computer-project/

Some pictures of our new EV. Mitsubishi Minicab Miev 16 kW-h. http://www.signsofsuccess.co.nz/category/other-technology/minicab-miev/

Squirrel the electric Minicab van is still keeping us amused and interested! Every trip is more fun, travelling 60kms for just $2.00 is always going to be fun!
I replaced the rather horrible standard radio that came with the vehicle (a Clarion radio, with the loudspeaker actually built into the front of the radio!) with a Sony head unit like this one https://www.hyperdrive.co.nz/product/68617/sony-xav-w651bt-head-unit. Interesting to fit, purchased some speakers which I fitted into the door pods (which came empty!), and wired in the reversing camera and the handbrake switch, so all functionality was enabled - watching DVDs, reversing camera, blue tooth phones, MP3s of 1000+ tracks (a lot of classical music so over 20 minutes each in a lot of cases) on a 32GB USB nano drive.
Up to 3800kms as of yesterday. And it is still turning heads!
Once again, big thanks to GVI https://www.gvielectric.kiwi/ for supplying the car

Updated Jan 22, 2019 5:18:37pm

Squirrel has now done 10,000 kms (in 10 months) and is going really well. Indicated range is between 103 and 111 kms each morning, and either we are getting better at driving frugally, or the van is getting more economical. The latter I think, as we still have a bit of a blast driving it some days. A very squirtable drive!

Check out these two beauties! Squirrel, our electric Mitsubishi Minicab miev, cuddling up to NZ Post's electric LDV EV80, on a visit to North City. Photo by Lynn Glover.

So we finally caved in and bought a leaf, or as I like to call it "Just another silver hatchback". 2014 X, 82% SOH, 71500 kms. Don't get me wrong, it's a great car, and will do exactly what we want it to do, but it is so boring! Compared to Squirrel, pictured with the leaf, it is heavy, expensive to run and so, so boring (or did I already mention that?). Very comfortable, a bit quieter than Squirrel, seats 5, slightly better range, and lots of bells and whistles. It also means we can get rid of our V6 Honda Odyssey and the fuel costs and service bills that go with it.

Updated Oct 02, 2019 3:49:46pm

Squirrel and The Tardis having a Christmas get together on Boxing day. Van rouge is Squirrel, our 2017 Miev Minicab, Van Blanc is The Tardis, our daughter and son-in-law's 2015 Miev Minicab. Both 16kWh batteries.

Updated Dec 26, 2019 3:38:01pm

Updated Dec 26, 2019 4:45:24pm

Our little Rose between two Thorns, a bit of poetic licence with the Tesla logo looking like the old norse thorn rune!

In case you missed it, Squirrel the van now has his own Facebook page.https://www.facebook.com/Squirrel-the-Mitsubishi-Miev-Minicab-103676711183515/

So, we made it to Lawrence in the van, no real issues. Carried on to Beaumont Hotel to find somewhere to park the van for 9 days. Set off on the bikes this morning, very cold start, but quite warm by time we got to Millers Flat. Stopped foe coffee and food, heading for Roxburgh this afternoon. Great trails, bike handling extra weight no problem.

Just changed the handlebars on the Yuba Mundo. Black bars are the new ones. Nice and straight, those swept back cruiser bars were hard on my wrists and made it difficult to control on tight corners.

http://signsofsuccess.co.nz/rolling-our-way-to-through-and-from-central-otago/
This blog of our big trip in February is finally complete, every day written up with photographs where we took them! Enjoy.

Updated Jul 21, 2021 1:02:10pm

Reached a nice milestone in my latest project - converting a 40 year old TLR camera to digital.

Updated Aug 25, 2021 2:10:03pm

Happy Birthday Beethoven🎁. I have been listening to the Violin Concerto and the 7th Symphony at full blast in the car over the last day or so. Two best pieces of music ever written! And to celebrate, i have upgraded the door speakers in the van to 6.5 inch Sony speakers so that i can really feel the music!

Life is too short to argue with people who believe the earth is flat, or that facebook is where you do reseach about covid 19.

Storm coming in over Whitby. Spectacular evening, and possibly an exciting night ahead. Hundreds of lightning flashes.

I am a computer programmer with 50 years experience. Sometimes I like to challenge myself. Here is a page about last weekend's project, a program to solve Countdown number games. I am feeling ridiculously pleased with myself!

Updated Apr 04, 2022 2:35:33pm

For my future reference
http://signsofsuccess.co.nz/nissan-leaf-2014-model-x-setting-the-clock/

Updated May 05, 2022 11:19:33am

The best day's cycling I have ever done, exciting in parts, so much to see, even the easy parts are great to ride. The ride to the top of the Cairnmuir Staircase was my favorite bit.
Picture of the Cairnmuir slide attached - how did you pixelate out the secret bits?

Our latest road trip in Squirrel, 2300 kms, 18 days, 62 charging stops, lots of winter weather, and some excellent bike trail riding.
http://signsofsuccess.co.nz/otago-2022-a-winter-roadtrip/

#ChargeNetNZ

Updated Sep 16, 2022 10:38:12am

Spring rain on a freshly oiled deck. Here comes summer!

Am I in a minority or a majority, in that I don't care what happens on Twitter, at Twitter or to Twitter? Getting a bit tired of media coverage of Chief Twit and all things Twitter on my Google news feeds.