I work on the Apocalypto Project – we read old & damaged scrolls and documents via a combination of x-rays and hardcore maths. We had a moment of fame earlier in the month – the project was mentioned on The One Show. Five minutes of video took a day to film – I wonder how …
Author Archives: David
VHF Radio Coverage
I’ve just discovered a nice tool for plotting radio transmission coverage. Here’s where I can expect to get a signal too from my home location. Yellow shows 0.50 μV signal level, Green is the 1.58 μV signal level This seems to match up quite well with contacts I’ve had on the two-meter band, but with …
Happy New Year!
Wishing a safe and fun 2014 to everyone.
Time lapse with a GoPro
I’ve a long standing interested both in experimental photography and time lapse photography. Back in October I picked up a new GoPro camera in the hope of using it for astrophotography, but it tuns out to be rather unsuited to that. The GoPro Hero 3, does have a time lapse mode though, so I’ve been …
Nine Years
So, nine years of affable-lurking. That’s a lot longer than I thought I’d keep this up. Not that sporadically updating a website is particularly hard work. The domain started as a laugh, a feeble ‘joke / pun’ for those in the know, then having paid for the domain for two years, putting some content here …