The Numbers Game – part 2
In this previous post I described how and why I started on this project, and detailed my “proof of concept” version, written in Python. I was quite pleased with this version, but it had a few drawbacks. It requires a …
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Posts about my programming projects and languages
The Numbers Game – Countdown
Depending on your age, you may be familiar with the TV program Countdown, or the 8 Out 0f 10 Cats does Countdown version, or the generic original version Numbers and Letters, or maybe the even more original French version! If …
Garage Automation Project – Further Update
As I said below in the last Raspberry Pi post, this project will never really be over. A while ago, the Logitech Web Cam attached to the PI Model B assigned to door opener duties (which gave images of the …
Garage Automation Project – near as dammit complete!
The History I looked back at previous posts and it appears I have been working on this project for nearly 3 years! The first part, being able to open the garage doors using wifi from a browser on my phone, …
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Garage Door Opener – a tinier computer project
Despite the issues with bricking the device and it recovering itself in a random state, I decided to go with what I had rather than risk bricking it again. This caused a few issues, but I can live with them. …
Arduino – multi-cell voltmeter
Right at the start of the saga which is my multi-cell voltmeter/potential BMS, I considered and rejected the simplest way of doing this, namely using voltage dividers to drop the voltage from the cells down to within the range of …
Multi Cell Voltmeter
The big order of Arduino related products has started to arrive, the key components, the Arduino mega 2560 clone and the TFT LCD screen arrived two days ago, along with some of the voltage sensors, and most of the jumper …
New Project – Electric Bikes, Arduino and Programming
Exciting times – a new project, bringing together Electric Bikes, Computers and Programming! During my troubles with batteries (which are pretty much sorted now) I realised I needed a way of looking at the voltage of all the 12 cells, …
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Porting Lazarus development to Linux
This morning I downloaded and installed the Lazarus RAD IDE, Free pascal and its resources to my workshop PC Ubuntu 12.04 image. It all went very smoothly. I tried to run my project (Sudoku Solver) from a USB key, but …
Back to programming
Hi, I’m Dave and I am a programmer. It says so on my passport, and to save hastle, its what I give my job as whenever I have to put it on a form. In reality, I haven’t had the …