Raspberry PI 2 – nearly there!
Last week I got the Kore remote app working on my phone and my tablet, and I thought that was clever. Over the weekend I plugged in a Microsoft Media Center IR and used the Media Center remote, with no …
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Windows 8.1 on Toshiba – log in without password
I don’t often need to hack into a computer now, and definitely resist doing it to a new Windows 8.1 machine, the manufacturers have made it so hard. But, a good customer came in with a machine he had been …
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Raspberry Pi 2 – installed and running
The Pi 2 in its beautiful case has been installed behind the TV to replace the PI 1, OSMC fired up, install completed, and the few set up tasks needed were done. The wireless settings didn’t install automatically from the …
Raspberry Pi – media centre
With winter coming, I wanted an entertainment system in the room with the big warm fire in. The TV is a small 24″ Samsung flat screen, with terrible speakers, a nice picture and good Freeview reception, but no recording device …
Windows 10 – 1st thoughts
Windows 10 is coming on 29th July 2015, and unlike previous version releases I am actually quite excited by this one. I have three Windows 8 and a Windows 7 computer at home and at the shop, and I personally …
Electric Bikes – new panniers
The rejigged batteries and the new cells are behaving themselves, I occasionally manually balance the cells using a couple of neat wiring additions I have made. The first is a plug in tab that allows a 6 cell voltmeter to …
Electric bikes – ready for winter
Seems like only yesterday I was writing a similar post last year! A year on and the bike is getting closer to what we want it to be, must be time for a new one! 2500km in the last year, …
Electric bikes – pannier batteries
I used the panniers as battery containers with a little trepidation, there was a lot of design and work creating the set up, with no guarantee it was going to work. Now I have done my first couple of days …
Electric bikes – back again
It has been a long time between posts, and a long time between rides. The battery saga from Christmas just went on and on, faulty cells, faulty BMS, more faulty cells, it all got a bit dispiriting, and cells and …
Electric Bikes, Chinese New Year, evassemble.com
The battery saga below is ongoing. The broken BMS in Lynn’s battery has now destroyed three cells. The new BMS has arrived and is fitted, but with only 11 good cells, it’s not much use! I am using the second …
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