The first post of the New Year, so a Happy New Year 2014, and I hope it’s a Prosperous one for you….
Since my office colleague introduced me to the The Simpsons: Tapped Out!, I’ve been hooked…
Just collected $1,000,000, just wish it was real!
The Simpsons: Tapped Out!
An Early Christmas Present, when I discovered yesterday evening, I’ve been nominated as an Experts Exchange MVE (Most Valuable Expert).
Introducing the Most Valuable Experts Gamma Class
Mark Wills, Site Administrator explains what a MVE is…
But in Summary..
Mark explains MVE’s are:-
“kind of un-sung hereos in many repects”
“single most important people that contribute to quality”
“stand out bunch”
“fairly elite”
“fairly exclusive”
“The Best of The Best at Experts Exchange”
Mark Wills, Site Administrator
Wishing you ALL, where ever you may be a Wonderful Christmas!
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
The VMware Elves are pleased to announce that the VMware Festive Journey is back!
Thanks for all the cards, presents and good wishes….
So, my birthday went like this:-
A “truly Excellent Adventure…..”
I’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
oh, and it’s My Birthday on the 23rd November 2013 as well!
No I’m not 5o!
One of the first very cold winter mornings, -5 degrees C at 9.00am, bees are all wrapped up…
I’m going to purchase on of these…
the iPhone 5 DS
because it’s got all the features an iPhone user needs!
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