29 AUGUST 2016
Last week I decided to upgrade my old Canon 5D Mk1 to a new camera as I wanted a higher resolution and better autofocus system for wildlife and landscapes.
I had been waiting for the new Canon 5D Mk IV which was officially...
31 JULY 2016
Last friday I ordered an oculus rift from www.oculus.com/ and the large heavy box arrived on Monday afternoon.
This is my first experience using a VR headset in over 20 years and the last time was at Sega World...
19 JULY 2016
Sorry for the lack of new blog posts in the last couple of months but we have been very busy with the slate roof on our home being replaced and the work involved with refurbishing the roof and associated outside lead...
17 JUNE 2016
Following a previous post for Google Analytics server side ecommerce tracking , I have now written a new and improved version of the C# functions to send ecommerce order data to Google Analytics server-side using Google’s...
23 APRIL 2016
When building our Raspberry Pi expansion boards we use lead free solder paste and a C.I.F FT02 batch reflow oven to cook the boards.
The C.I.F promotional videos show the oven being used on a workbench without any...
16 APRIL 2016
We needed to be able to test some of our circuits for EMI issues via the power lines and after some research we found a product called TBOH01 5UH Line Impedance Stabilisation Network LISN from Tekbox (http://www.tekbox.net/test-equipment/tboh01-5uh-line-impedance-stabilisation-network-lisn-cispr25)...
14 MARCH 2016
Updated on 19th March 2016 for new Raspbian Jessie release changes.
Following on from the previous post about the Raspberry Pi 3 UART overlay workaround there is now a new solution to enable the serial console and...
07 MARCH 2016
Update: 19th March 2016
There is now a new Raspbian Jessie release dated 2016-03-18 which no longer works with this UART workaround. There is a new post at http://www.briandorey.com/post/Raspberry-Pi-3-UART-Boot-Overlay-Part-Two...
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...