All code can be found on GitHub In these days of lockdown, like many of you, I am working at home. While working I listen to Spotify on a set of Audioengine speakers connected to my local machine and log in to my work machine using Citrix. Typically I control the music from my phone […]
The SD card on my RPi 3 running my TravelInfo app on Windows IOT died. I thought that it would be easy enough to get it all back up and running. I downloaded and installed the latest version of Windows IOT (10.0.15063.608) and published my project onto it. Everything seemed fine and the app seemed […]
All code can be found on GitHub A student was doing a research project that involved counting bees as they ate sugar solution contained in a small dish sitting above certain plants. The object was to see which plants they were attracted to. This involved counting them as they approached the dish. This is a […]
All code for this project is on GitHub. As a London commuter, I need to know how the trains, buses and tubes are running in the morning. As a Microsoft developer I was also interested in trying Windows IOT. I therefore decided to do a project in C# and XAML to solve this problem. I […]
As part of a project to control the lights in a house, I have used some Energenie Remote Control Sockets and a RPi. I fitted the RPi with the Energenie Pi-mote Remote Control board. This allows the RPi to wirelessly turn on the sockets using the GPIO pins. To provide a night light, I needed […]
What’s the connection between these disparate items. I’ll get on to that in a minute, but will talk about SqueezeCenter first. I have been running SqueezeCenter (formerly SqueezeBox) since it’s earliest incarnation in about 2001 when I bought a single Slimp3 player. The fact that the server is based on an open source project running […]
ThorpeSoftware was originally set up to market an extended stored procedure written in C++ for sending emails from SQL Server Transact SQL. A useful feature that was missing at the time. I developed and then supported the utility for over 15 years until the feature has been added as standard. The original website is still […]