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<![CDATA[For this year's Sport Relief, the BBC created an epic 57-hour game of Five-a-Side football outside their MediaCity HQ in Salford. As our contribution to this charitable cause, Bright Signals offered to install the Raspberry Pi-powered camera system I'd recently designed. I wrote some custom software for the BBC system and designed a unique laser-cutContinue reading “My Raspberry Pi cameras at Sport Relief”

<![CDATA[After over a decade of hosting my site from home, I've decided to move it to Digital Ocean. Hosting from home has generally worked well for me over the years, but it's a level of hassle that I can do without – especially when a virtual server costs just $5/month these days. So… today isContinue reading “New host, fingers crossed!”

<![CDATA[A couple of months ago I helped the guys at Bright Signals prototype a new automated video capture, edit and upload technology for amateur sports. The prototype worked really well and I'm pleased to see it already deployed at several five-a-side football pitches around Glasgow. Here's a short piece from STV's Riverside Show introducing theContinue reading “Tennent's T5s is alive!”

<![CDATA[Earlier this month, Tom Thomson and I were invited to speak at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.  It was a really interesting event with lots of great questions and participation from those attending. If anyone wants to hear it, the session is online at the University of Oxford site.

<![CDATA[A couple of months ago I put together a retro arcade cabinet using our old TV, an X-Arcade Tankstank and a Mammut Children's shelf unit from IKEA. I'm quite pleased with the end result – I didn't want it to look like a bulky, black 1980's arcade cabinet, but I did want it to feelContinue reading “My home-built arcade cabinet featured on IKEA Hackers”

<![CDATA[This Monday we hosted the grand final of Glasgow’s Star Turn, a talent competition in the Evening Times for singers, dancers, comedians, musicians and other talented performers. The event was a great success, with an audience completely filling the Old Fruitmarket and a set of celebrity judges who were hugely impressed with the talent onContinue reading “Glasgow's Star Turn”

<![CDATA[Some more pics from our holiday…

<![CDATA[Some pics from our recent holiday to Portugal…