Zinken Compact 21 : Repairs
I bought this unit in Brisbane, Australia. This records details in case they are useful to others. Bearings Bearings were mostly stuffed […]
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PiZeroW AP + Wifi Client
So I wanted to be able to set the Wifi details of a Pi without connecting a monitor and keyboard. Easy, right? […]
Time Travel, unittest.mock, freezegun and monkeypatch
To test time-dependant programs, such as timelapse camera, we can fudge the system time (sleep,. now()) in Python. Some options are: https://github.com/spulec/freezegun/ […]
Ubuntu 18 on Dell Windows 10
Notes on how to install and tune a HyperV VM running Ubuntu linux, for development. Did this March 2020. Did it on […]
Raspberry Pi Setup (Linux)
Setup SD Card on another linux machine to install headless I use Desktop Raspberry Pi OS distro. This is tested on a […]
Rope for Ski Touring
I wanna go ski touring in the european Alps in 2020 and needed to choose a rope: Half rope okay for crevasse […]
Grafana Embeding and Alerting
This is a live embedded graph. It should refresh each 10s. You can interact with it.
Pi Zero W Timelapse Camera
This scratch pad records my experience with a Pi Zero W unit, capturing outside timelapses. Controlling the PiCamera Reference to python module […]
Walking GR5 Via Alpina in May June (2016)
In May and June of 2016 I walked from Menton (near Nice, south-east France) to Mont Paradiso (Italy, nearish Mt Blanc) which […]
Talking and Listening with Python
I note some details about getting Python 3 to talk and listen, and read and write (Exif data) Setup >py -v Python […]