Blog - weekly updates on things seen or heard

Home Energy Grafana

Home Energy Grafana

Feb 24, 2024

Grafana is one of our go to tools for data exploration at work. Since we are storing lots of data...
research making
Birdbox camera

Birdbox camera

Feb 17, 2024

Timelapse from 2023 on YouTube Last year I setup a RPi Zero with a NoIR camera to film inside a...
hardware making
Leica LIDAR

Leica LIDAR

Feb 10, 2024

Had a fun Friday this week exploring some new kit in the lab. We have few new projects emerging in...
research casa
Solar Scraping

Solar Scraping

Feb 3, 2024

The home solar / battery system has been running for just over 5 years. While the system has been running...
making
Counting Birds

Counting Birds

Jan 28, 2024

This weekend volunteers across the UK have been counting birds in their gardens as part of the RSPB Big Garden...
research making
Project Ideas

Project Ideas

Jan 18, 2024

One of my favourite January jobs is thinking about potential summer projects - both for self and for student dissertations....
teaching
The Bus Nook

The Bus Nook

Jan 11, 2024

A little project over the 2023/24 Christmas break involved putting back into use an old Barnes and Noble Nook that...
web
T1 2023 complete

T1 2023 complete

Dec 16, 2023

Term One, 2023/24 complete. This week we had two sets of final crits - individual projects from Make Design Build...
teaching casa
Thames Barrier Site Visit

Thames Barrier Site Visit

Dec 9, 2023

Today I finally managed a trip to the Thames Barrier thanks to a visit organised by CASA visitor Fuko (Assistant...
events
A Climate Unconference

A Climate Unconference

Dec 2, 2023

Today we hosted a climate unconference organised by Alex Deschamps-Sonsino. The Eventbrite blurb said “A free unconference to coincide with...
events