weekend projects – Page 3

Diary of a new garage – part 1

<![CDATA[When we bought our house back in 2003 it had a fairly typical wood & concrete garage. It was old and shabby, but we put in some shelving and worktop to make it more useful. Then, in the Winter of 2007/08, it finally started to give in to the elements — the roof was leakingContinue reading “Diary of a new garage – part 1”

Weekend project: Putting my doorbell online

Running your web server from home gives lots of opportunities to connect the real world to the internet. I’ve previously connected a webcam with motion detection so I can see people entering and leaving the driveway and, more recently, connected a wireless weather station to give regular Elderslie weather updates. I decided my next project would be to putContinue reading “Weekend project: Putting my doorbell online”

Weather station web-publishing software

<![CDATA[Since I stuck my weather station online back in May I’ve had a number of enquiries about the software I’m using to publish results to the web. My long term plan is to make my software freely available for anyone to use, but at the moment I’m just too busy to write the tutorials andContinue reading “Weather station web-publishing software”

Weekend project: Weather Station

<![CDATA[This weekend I put together a wee project I’d been thinking about for a while — a web-enabled weather station in my back garden. Ever since I moved out of the city a few years ago I’ve taken a greater interest in the weather. When we moved into our new house in Elderslie I noticedContinue reading “Weekend project: Weather Station”

Weekend project: Alternative OS

<![CDATA[Ever since I packed away my old Amiga A1200 I've been a Windows user. Starting from Windows 3.0 I've been through virtually all the evolutions — 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, NT, 95, 98, ME (eek!), 2000, XP and Vista. I've always favoured the universal nature of windows, with a tool for every conceivable task, overContinue reading “Weekend project: Alternative OS”

Weekend Project: Patching AppleTV Take 2

<![CDATA[When I was in New York last summer I picked up an AppleTV set top box. Personally I think it’s the bargain of the century — for £200 I got a fast, virtually silent, easy-to-use replacement for my noisy old Windows Media Centre PC. Best of all, I managed to sell the old Media CentreContinue reading “Weekend Project: Patching AppleTV Take 2”

Weekend project: Adding a cycle computer to my Ludix Blaster

<![CDATA[A few weeks ago I bought a Peugeot Ludix Blaster RS12 scooter. It’s really just to get me to work and back. Between parking and petrol, taking my car to work was costing me about £9 a day (£4.50 petrol + £4.50 parking, and that doesn’t account for tyres, petrol, servicing, etc). The scooter isn’tContinue reading “Weekend project: Adding a cycle computer to my Ludix Blaster”