Hackerspace
Weekend Project: the hackerspace communicator
I love projects that blend the virtual world with the real world. I also love projects that are fun. This is both. Starting out as just a 9v battery, a button and a buzzer, it Read more…
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The many misadventures in making an LED Pride t-shirt
It was a week before Manchester Pride 2017, and I was signed up to march in the parade with my employer. Being an unashamed and indeed proud hacker, doer, and queer I wanted to express Read more…
Manchester
The absolutely crazy process of buying a home – Part 1
Here is my experience of buying my own home. Maybe it will be amusing, maybe it will help someone, maybe it will just help me to write it down. There are definitely phases to buying Read more…
Arduino
Awesome bike lights with an Arduino
If you have ever cycled in Manchester, you’ll probably have regretted it. Audis, taxis, and Audi taxis threaten your very existence. To give them no excuse of not seeing me, I decided to build some novel, Read more…
Hackerspace
Community, Bees, and LEDs
It was a dark and bitterly cold February evening in Wellington Mill, home of Hackspace Manchester, and the rain was battering against the windows, an icy breeze seeping in. Inside, under halogen heaters, a few Read more…
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Manchester Metrolink – how excellent branding represents an excellent city
You can’t get more Mancunian than the Metrolink. Metrolink is the light rail transport network of Manchester that the city relies upon. One thing it absolutely gets right but is often overlooked and covered with Read more…
Hackerspace
💡Voice controlled lights for about a fiver
This is a nice weekend project to supercharge your home lighting with voice controlled lights that are super cheap and fun to build — within hours you’ll have voice controlled lights that are sure to impress. High Read more…
Travel
My holiday into the unknown with srprs.me
This story was originally published on my Medium account. On a grey Saturday morning as the city slept, I rocked up at Manchester airport, bleary eyed but buzzing; heading on holiday but no idea where Read more…
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Raspberry Pi Christmas lights for £1
Christmas is a great time of year, right? Forget presents and jingly music though, the excitement I get is from pound stores stocking hackable LED strings that have so many potential uses. You can use Read more…
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A game of multiplayer pong with AngularJS, Node and Sockets.
As a project, I created a game of multiplayer pong, as a way to really get to grips with Node. I’ve used it before but only as a web server which didn’t really suit my Read more…