Blog - weekly updates on things seen or heard
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...
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...
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...
Solar Scraping
Feb 3, 2024
The home solar / battery system has been running for just over 5 years. While the system has been running...
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...
Project Ideas
Jan 18, 2024
One of my favourite January jobs is thinking about potential summer projects - both for self and for student dissertations....
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...
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...
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...
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...