Aliens ate my shed
Slightly off-the-wall experiment with a pair of broken mannequins and some cheap but effective RGB LED lighting.
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Lyndhurst by night, Christmas lights
Went to see an old friend in Lindhurst today. Stopped on the way to take a few photographs of the Christmas lights.
Road trip to Ely
I found myself in Cambridge, giving an IT course. The weather was pleasant and war, the countryside interesting and i had a nice new MX5 to drive. I also had Fuji S2 digital camera on loan form a client. So I took myself off to the beautiful city of Ely and its environs, whilst taking…
AI still not all that bright
Creating the main image for this year’s Christmas card was not the straightforward “one-click deal” I hoped it would be. Seems synthetic stupidity is very much alive and kicking in the world of artificial intelligence. Fact is, AI is still not all that bright. In order to create the one successful image we finally chose,…
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LED Lights
Ever since I was a kid, I have always been fascinated by LEDs (light emitting diodes). Back in those days you could only get red ones. Or green if you were very rich. Today they come in lots of colours and they are brilliant fun to use with a digital camera.
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Checking out my new lens tilt mechanism
I treated myself to a lens tilt mechanism and a vintage Helios 4m-44 58mm f/2 lens. So I figured I needed to go out and test them. These were taken from Portsdown Hill, facing south, over Portchester and Cosham. Being able to tilt the lens means one can shift the focus onto a particular part…
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Whole house Wi-Fi using a single access point
Due to its construction, ours is quite a difficult house for “whole house Wi-Fi” due to its solid internal dividing walls, downstairs and upstairs. In fact, my first DIY job when we moved in here, back in 2012, was to run Cat 5e Ethernet cables to every room that we were likely to use a…
