After a 3h wait at the Barbican, I’ve finally made it to the rain room. It’s a very strange experience walking towards steel rods of rain that get no closer to you.
Little spherical globs of evil.
I’m not sure those bags are strong enough to contain that much evil.
Canaries? What canaries?
A week in the canary islands and I’ve not seen a single canary. Have I been lied to?
Canary islands
Gone to the Canary Islands to explore volcanoes, drink wine and stargaze.
It rained all day yesterday.
Today was rather better.
Hellschreiber
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 being transmitted is “G7UVW / QTH / JO01BN / QRPP / Hellschreiber”. The slanting of the text is due to the drift in frequency between the transmitter and receiving radio and also timing errors in the transmitting code.