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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013Swear Pig in Systems Office Raises £46 for Water Aid!
Monday, December 16th, 2013
20p per curse, was collected in the "piggy-bank" for Water Aid!
Thanks to All those, that contributed to the Swear Pig in Systems Office, we raised £46 for Water Aid!
Visit The Big Pipe Project blog
£20.80 will help provide 10m of pipe to bring water down the hill to the reservoir.
A Big Thank You from Water Aid
Receipt of Donation
VMware Festive Journey starts on 2nd December 2013
Wednesday, November 27th, 2013The VMware Elves are pleased to announce that the VMware Festive Journey is back!
What I did on my Birthday – I ate Sushi @YOSushi #SaveTheDay
Monday, November 25th, 2013Thanks for all the cards, presents and good wishes….
So, my birthday went like this:-
- Woke Up
- Showered
- Hair Cut
- Ate two croissants
- Can of “diet” Red Bull
- Open birthday cards and presents
- Caught bus to York
- Ate Sushi and Drank Japanese Beer @YO Sushi
- Caught bus home
- Watched the Dr Who 50th Anniversary Special
- Ate Birthday cake
- Went to bed, using new birthday present duvet!
A “truly Excellent Adventure…..”
Programming with Sphero 2.0
Friday, November 22nd, 2013I’ve had my Sphero 2.0 less than two weeks, so you can use your Android or Apple smartphone to control your Sphero 2.0, but I want to program it, so it comes out during the day, entertains the cats, and then goes back “home” to charge up…
so far these are my efforts, using a Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit Linux computer, a bluetooth USB adaptor, and the ROS (Robot Operating System) and Sphero SDK.
ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. ROS is licensed under an open source, BSD license.
Starting roscore
Starting rosrun, pairing with Sphero
Here is a video, of the Sphero pairing with bluetooth usb adaptor, and then sending commands, to change colour from blue, green to red, and then unpairing the Sphero.
full throttle….zoom zoom …
23.11.13 – #SAVETHEDAY – Yes it’s My Birthday as Well! – 50th Anniversay of Dr Who!
Thursday, November 21st, 201323.11.13 #SAVETHEDAY
oh, and it’s My Birthday on the 23rd November 2013 as well!
No I’m not 5o!
Frosty today…
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013One of the first very cold winter mornings, -5 degrees C at 9.00am, bees are all wrapped up…
iPhone 5 DS Review
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013I’m going to purchase on of these…
the iPhone 5 DS
because it’s got all the features an iPhone user needs!
Sphero 2.0 – new robotic toy for the cats!
Monday, November 11th, 2013This was the Amazon.co.uk purchase which arrived Saturday morning!
A Sphero 2.0! Sphero is a robotic ball, which can be controlled via a phone or computer, many different development kits have been released, e.g. Android, iPhone and Python etc It’s a bit like a modern day Big Track, but it’s a ball!
Sphero 2.0
Sphero 2.0
More pictures of what’s in the box
Popped to Church for Remembrance Sunday!
Sunday, November 10th, 2013I quickly popped to Church today, for Remembrance Sunday and also to place these “trackables” in the Geocache!
This place “Kirby Underdale” sounds like it’s from Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings
The Church at Kirby Underdale
The Church at Kirby Underdale
these were the trackables dropped at the geocache..
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