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Greetings. It has been a while since I have updated the front page. However, I have some new content: Shed facts, a tragedy in five parts.

Have a look here

As you might have seen in the Magpi, I’ve been building things:

First some Facial Recognition stuff, and:
HAL9000! See the build log here

There are a few updates recently (I use the geographic meaning in this case) One on fire flies one on bumpy roads and another moaning about VFX artists.

Have a good read, feel free to get offended and indulge in personal threats. Its what I live for.

There was a hubub about the shard being hit by lightning, I can beat that:

Yup Boom, lightning less than 100 meters away.

Slightly further away

Tail end of the famous Shard lightning shot

After months of late night, stress, shingles and other such lovely things; We have finally moved into the secret batcave! Its now just a case of emptying boxes and finding places for things. Easier said than done, considering the sheer amount of stuff we’ve both accumulated. T’other half has 3 boxes of shoes.

Enough.

As a moving in present, the parental unit purchased a sheevaplug: 1.2Gigs of floating pointless fury. Whilst not a speed daemon it is very cheap ~£80 from newit and low power. The nearest equivalent would be the IGEPv2 Beagle board clone. It has a lower power consumption and a floating point unit, but is two thirds more expensive, and has no casing.

Eventually when all the dust has settled, I’ll use some arduinos as I/O expander for the sheevaplug and start logging temperature/power/environment data again.