21 FEBRUARY 2016
I often record my bike rides on my GoPro Hero 3+ to use on our local tourism website Virtual Swanage (www.virtual-swanage.co.uk) and use the GPS data from my Garmin Edge 810 bike computer to make downloadable routes for...
19 JANUARY 2016
Whilst working on updates to one of our websites I found strange issue when searching with google for terms related to ASP.Net assembly names and methods and many searches would result in a captcha page appearing...
13 JANUARY 2016
In a previous blog post we wrote about our new mains energy monitoring system which reads the values from our electric and gas meters and stores them in an online database. The gas reading was done using a reed...
01 JANUARY 2016
In November of last year we finished work on our Raspberry Pi based solar data logger, a part of our ongoing smart home project that we have been working on for several years now. The solar logger monitors all of...
01 JANUARY 2016
20 years of Virtual Swanage promoting our town and local area at www.virtual-swanage.co.uk
In 1996 we first launched our local tourist information website for our home town of Swanage. The first version of the website...
24 DECEMBER 2015
I have now launched a new version of the blog which has a new design and a completely new back end management system which we have designed and written ourselves.
Andrew has helped me with the front end design, graphics...
12 DECEMBER 2015
It has now been a week since we installed the Nest 3rd Gen Learning Thermostat and we have been able to try the auto learning and heating / hot water schedules the thermostat offers.
First impressions of the thermostat...
04 DECEMBER 2015
Today the new 3rd Gen Nest Learning Thermostat with hot water control arrived which we had ordered last month when the new UK model with hot water control was announced.
We needed the Nest Thermostat with the hot water...
03 DECEMBER 2015
When we launched our ecommerce shop AB Electronics UK selling the Raspberry Pi expansion boards which myself and my brother Andrew have designed and hand built we thought that we knew all the potential issues and pitfalls...
30 NOVEMBER 2015
Three years ago we designed a solar data logger based on a Raspberry Pi which monitored the solar heating and PV system in the house as well as measuring the amount of energy we were using. This system has served...
14 NOVEMBER 2015
Update 17th June 2016:
There is a new version of this code on http://www.briandorey.com/post/Google-Analytics-server-side-ecommerce-tracking-V2
A recurring issue we have on several of the ecommerce websites we...
11 NOVEMBER 2015
Since we solved the RF interference problems http://www.briandorey.com/post/mastervolt-soladin-rf-filtering with our Mastervolt Soladin 600 mains inverter we had planned to use the data port to link to our Raspberry...
11 NOVEMBER 2015
This is part four of the USB MultiComms project, you can view part one, two and three from the links below:
USB MultiComms Part One - USB Board
USB MultiComms Part Two - RS232 Board
USB MultiComms Part Three - UART Board
With...
11 NOVEMBER 2015
This is part three of the USB MultiComms project, you can view part one and two from the links below:
USB MultiComms Part One - USB Board
USB MultiComms Part Two - RS232 Board
With the main controller board and the RS232...
31 OCTOBER 2015
This is part two of the USB MultiComms project, you can view part one where we built the controller board at USB MultiComms Part One - USB Board
In part one of this USB MultiComms I detailed the design and construction...
15 OCTOBER 2015
Designing a USB communications box.
Several of the projects we have been working on recently needed some form of serial communication with our PC, either through RS232, UART, I2C or SPI and at the moment we use a handful...