What do you get when you mix a cheap MSP430 development board with a simple oscillator circuit and blend in a handful of code from various sources? Hellschreiber– a radio transmission mode invented in the 1920s. The screenshot above shows the signal as transmitted across my bench – a distance of about 50cm. The text …
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Neil Armstrong: 1930 – 2012 RIP
Solargraphy 2012
Solagraphy is the art of photographically capturing the path of the sun across the sky. As the sun takes a day to cross the sky, the exposure time for a solargraph is at least a day. To really capture the path of the sun as the seasons change (the sun climbing higher as we …
Oak Leaf Wine. Part Two
Oak Leaf wine fermenting. It’ll sit and bubble and froth like this for about 4-6 weeks, before it is siphoned off into a clean demijohn to clear and mature.
It’s Oak Apple Day
An oak-themed week so far… The 29th of May is Oak Apple Day – I’ve an interest in oak apples due to my job, but I didn’t know the details behind Oak Apple Day until I read this post by Tom Sykes.