How much would you spend on a sign or a series of signs covering a university campus? A couple of thousand? How about £700,000?
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After posting that a personal tracking device wasn't feasible because of power consumptions issues it got me thinking, is it?
I haven't worked this out yet so as I write this I genuinely don't know i...
My latest project is a GPS system for my car, thats so last you I hear you all saying, but wait its not a navigation system but a replacement for the speedometer and a tracking system.
I use a regula...
Lately I have taken on a couple of freelance jobs, one electronic which involved designing and building a non contact counting system for exercise judging, the other project is web based, for this I h...
I have finally found the solution to my camera dilemma, the Canon EOS 500D.
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For a while n...
For the past few months I have been working on a multisite IT project, part of it involves keeping various databases synchronized between different sites. A single master database needs to be pushed o...
Last week I received an iPod touch, this is going to form part of my latest project so the University paid for it and I get to use it for a couple of months before the project goes live. I have never...
On Friday I was watching a DVD and all of a sudden the image froze and the player became unresponsive, I tried restarting the player but the system got stuck on the boot up process, it was at this poi...
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Canon recently announced the upcoming release of there new digital SLR, the 5D Mark 2.
This soun...
I have come up with another thing for my list of things to do before I die; work for the British Antarctic Survey. The British Antarctic Survey or BAS is something I came across a few years ago, I am...