Hacking the EZ430 Chronos Watch on the Mac
Today my TI EZ430 Chronos Watch arrived, and I spent a little bit of time hacking it on my MacBook Air. It turns out that even though the documentation seems to require either a Windows machine or a...
View ArticleWorking on the iPad
For the last month I've been doing a contract at Canary Wharf for HSBC. In an effort to minimise the amount of stuff I carry, I've just been taking my iPad into work with me. I've really missed having...
View ArticleMy Evolving Media Setup
My media centre for the past 7 years has been a Mac Mini with an external hard disk. I've been playing music through iTunes and either watching movies from DVDs I've ripped to the hard-drive, or...
View ArticleRestarting Fitbit on the Mac
I seem to have a problem with my Fitbit Ultra and my Mac Air running OS/X 10.8. What happens is the fitbit daemon doesn't seem to work properly if I suspend the notebook by closing the lid. After...
View ArticleBitcoin and the Byzantine Generals’ Problem
One of the main problems that Bitcoin solves is how to stop double spending. This is a hard problem to solve in a distributed currency, and is the reason why a lot of early digital currencies relied on...
View ArticleWhat Google Glass might soon be like
There is an interesting clip over on YouTube, that shows what having Google Glass (or something similar) might someday be like. I loved some of the ideas presented here, although I thought the scene...
View ArticleUsing my phone as desktop
I am experimenting at the moment with using my phone as my primary computing device. I think that this is the future. There are phones coming out (hello iPhone 5s) with remarkably powerful processors....
View ArticleThe Technological Arms Race and the Middle Class
Over the last few days there's been some rumblings in the blogosphere about whether technology will or won't destroy the middle class. There was this piece in the Washington Post by James Bessen...
View ArticleMobile Tethering
I finally moved my cellular provider from O2 to Three, because Three has an unlimited data + tethering plan. So far it's been working really well. I brought in my wireless-only Nexus 7 to BNP Paribas'...
View ArticleiPad to iPhone Tethering Issues
The past few days I've been bringing in my new WIFI-only iPad and trying to use it tethered to my iPhone 5. It's been a frustrating experience so far. I've found that it works OK when the iPad is first...
View ArticleProblems with iPhone 5S and a Virgin SuperHub
Ever since I've had my iPhone 5S, I've had problems with the wifi on my 120 MB Virgin SuperHub. Quite often the phone fails to connect to sites, or the wifi connection drops out. I've even tried...
View ArticleInstalling CyanogenMod on a Nexus 7
Yesterday I installed CyanogenMod on my 2012 Nexus 7. I decided to do this because I've been thinking a lot recently about how we will all be using our computing technology in the next few years. I...
View ArticleThe Anker T320 Keyboard
I bought an Anker T320 bluetooth keyboard to use with my iPad, mainly because it had such good reviews on Amazon. It's an amazingly good keyboard! It's really light - much smaller and lighter than the...
View ArticleThe Oculus Rift and Three Kinects
Here is a YouTube video showing a researcher working with an Oculus Rift and Three Microsoft Kinects. Even this simple setup looks amazing! Related posts: Detroit – Ground Zero for Economic Collapse...
View ArticleConfiguring a Jaalee iBeacon Transmitter
I received 5 iBeacon transmitter units from ibeaconmodules.us today. They arrived unassembled, so I put them together and configured their local names with my iPhone. The first hurdle I found in...
View ArticleDa Vinci 3D Printer Arrives
Yesterday my XYZ Da Vinci 3D Printer arrived. I had a really fun day setting it up and doing some test prints. The first print I made was the "key chain" print that is on the firmware. This created a...
View ArticleOpenSCAD rocks the house!
Last night I was trying to print a camera lens clip that allows you to clip your camera lens to your camera strap. Unfortunately the clip for the strap wasn't wide enough. Fortunately the OpenSCAD...
View ArticleJeremy Howard talk about the Data Science Revolution
Here is a talk about machine learning given by Jeremy Howard which is part of the Exponential Finance Conference series which is well worth watching: The Data Science Revolution (Jeremy Howard) -...
View ArticleThe Raspberry Pi 2
The Raspberry Pi 2 was announced a week ago, and I decided to get one to use as a media centre. Mine arrived yesterday. Related posts: My Evolving Media Setup Zero-Six Weeks
View ArticlePython OAuth2 failing with X509 error
I've just spent about 20 minutes trying to authenticate with Twitter using the Python OAuth2 module. I kept on getting an X509 error, specifically: ssl.SSLError: [Errno 185090050] _ssl.c:343:...
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