I’m the computer person at work, so I get asked computer things. Today I was asked by a colleague to evaluate the orphan grinder/sea boiler/penguin evictor, to see if it could help them maintain some analysis code they don’t understand. I do not, and have not used the orphan grinder so far. #DontGrindOrphans The colleague …
Category Archives: experiments
Making Perry – Part 2
After letting the juice rest for around 20h I added the yeast. I’ve used this stuff before and it gave good results. It’s a high alcohol tolerance strain, so will tend to ferment to a higher ABV than I want. I’ll check in a few more days and stop the fermentation at 8% ABV or …
Making Perry – Part 1
I had access to a tree full of pears for a weekend. With the help of Meagen, we picked two large bags of pears of various ripeness – around 25kg I’d later come to know. I don’t actually like pears as a fruit, so I’d already panned to make perry from them. I’ve done this …
Focus Stacking
I’ve been playing on-and-off with a NSI Macro Focusing Rail, for taking extended depth of field macro photographs. The focus rail mounts between your tripod and the camera to allow very precise movements of the camera, with the focus locked. You move the focus plane across the object bing photographed, taking multiple images, each with …
Birds of Dagenham
I’m a scientist, I like data. If I can collect and analyse data from the environment around me, I’m a happy scientist. I’ve been using BirdNet on my phone to identify birds by their sounds; it works pretty well, but sometimes gets confused by lots of birds together, I’ve taught myself a lot of bird …