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Behold! A bottle of the lemony/irony tasting nasty yellow/brown chemical known as the Edinburgh Etch! Here is my “lab”, cunningly disguised as a bucket. I wore goggles and rubber gloves and everything! Although I seriously need to get some better rubber mad scientist gloves: a pair of marigolds just doesn’t have the right effect. IContinue reading “All Hail the Edinburgh Etch”

cellarOriginally uploaded by adq_uk A picture of one of the denizens…

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been resurrecting the linux support for the nokia 770 internet tablet. I want to use it with my python PTP camera  software as a highly portable control system for timelapse, automated IR etc. However, as it doesn’t seem to have had a maintainer for a while, the codeContinue reading “Hardware resurrection of the N770”

I remember seeing some film industry bod on the TV recently saying that the new RealD 3d stuff was great because it couldn’t be recorded in the cinema by the audience. However, the thought just struct me: according to wikipedia, this RealD technology is basically using two differently circularly polarised filters on each eye. Surely,Continue reading “Wait a moment…”

here’s lookin’ at you, kidOriginally uploaded by adq_uk I spent some time chasing this beastie round the room this lunchtime..

I’ve just found this website. Its fantastic! It has a web based shirt designer where you can customise pretty much anything – material, buttons, contrasting button stiching, monograms, pockets……. its fun even just to play with the "shirt builder" for a bit. Oh, remember to click on the tabs at the top: even more options!Continue reading “Easy custom shirt design/manufacturing website”

I find this wonderful flickr set from the US Library of Congress give a completely different perspective being in colour… Also, Nik, I don’t think much of the painting on these, being spoilt by the things you’ve shown me, but they are remote controlled and have lasers 🙂

Woohoo – just uploaded some more of my archived code to a new project at http://code.google.com/p/pyptp/. This time it is my python PTP support library. Whats so good about this? Well, many digital cameras support the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP). This is ostensibly for multimedia devices to exchange picture data, but also provides a standardContinue reading “PTP digital camera control”

I’ve just realised I’d never actually tried plugging the eframe into my PC. Well, it shows up as a mass storage device with all the photos etc visible on the internal storage. The "PF110.RSS" RSS binary file is visible there. Since its unlikely you’d need to change the RSS feeds themselves very much, this sounds like aContinue reading “eframe mass storage”

… is ongoing as I type: using 6 wirewrap wires soldered to the handy breakout area on the board, and readspiflash.py from pypickit. Also, added bonus: nothing has been fried yet!