Depending on your age, you may be familiar with the TV program Countdown, or the 8 Out 0f 10 Cats does Countdown version, or the generic original version Numbers and Letters, or maybe the even more original French version! If you are you will know it is basically two games. Firstly an anagram game where…
Category: Computer Stuff
Lubitel 166B Digital Camera – project definition
This was intended to be a blog of the process of building my Lomo Lubitel 166B Digital camera, using a Raspberry PI camera and computer. However, it was effectively completed without me having time to document the build at all. So it now has a page of its own here enjoy!
Garage Automation Project – Further Update
As I said below in the last Raspberry Pi post, this project will never really be over. A while ago, the Logitech Web Cam attached to the PI Model B assigned to door opener duties (which gave images of the inside of the garage) failed. I used these cameras because I had one in stock,…
Garage Automation Project – near as dammit complete!
The History I looked back at previous posts and it appears I have been working on this project for nearly 3 years! The first part, being able to open the garage doors using wifi from a browser on my phone, has been up and running with various degrees of success for most of that time,…
UBUNTU NAS Drive
There is an old joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee. A camel is ugly, and as well as kicking and biting, it spits. However, if you need something to carry a heavy load, across inhospitable terrain with minimum maintenance, a Camel is usually better than a horse. Linux is a…
Raspberry PI and Raspbian Lite Buster
The tiny computer projects to control garage doors and display webcam images has moved on a bit, and I have added two new tiny computers into the network. The first feature I wanted to add was an access to the garage from the outside. Obviously this had to be secure, and to me that also…
VPN – Virtual Private Network
I had been quite happily using another VPN for several years, mainly to watch some european sports channels I subscribe to. However, one day it stopped working, and when I queried the help desk they were little use, basically telling me that it was my problem. So I looked around and found Airvpn. Airvpn provides…
Another Unfortunate Scam
Its sad when someone tries their best to solve problems for them selves and get scammed by some lowlife. This customer of mine had a small issue with her log on to get her Yahoo Mail, just a bit of a password problem. So she went onto the yahoo website, and saw what she thought…
New Home Computer
It’s not often I splash out on a new computer, normally my computers are Frankenstein machines rescued and upgraded using stuff abandoned by customers. However, the last computer I bought for home, about 10 years ago, was starting to show its age. It is an Acer L3600, with a dual core E4600 processor, originally with…
Ebikes – DBMS issues with counterfeit parts
The DBMS worked fine for 50 or 60 km, but the behaviour of the various components – batteries, motor and controller and DBMS started to get erratic, and it started to get difficult to tell what was going wrong. I slowly removed items until I was back to a normal set up on both bikes,…