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Laser cut wood and airport security 19 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm

If you ever travel with laser cut wood through airport security you may set off some alarms. Sometimes after wood is laser cut the dark edges are treated with hydrogen peroxide, a common material use...

NFC Ring in numbers so far 30 Jul 2013 | 02:46 am

Funds spent: £74,232 Funds raised: £117,938 Backers: 4,124 Days to go: 20 Rings to make: 4,412 KS Comments: 179 KS Messages: 712 Direct Emails: 187 Edits to KS campaign: 84 TV Interviews: 1 ...

After a year of hard work my kickstarter is live! 20 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm

And with a £20 offer for early birds you would be insane not to buy an NFC Ring! Many of you will have seen me with various weird looking prototypes on my finger over the last year and a lot of you p...

First Video of NFC Ring in action 16 Jul 2013 | 10:13 pm

I feature in the first NFC Ring video.. It’s just a bit of fun Enjoy!

getusermedia screenshot wrong size 12 Jul 2013 | 03:20 pm

The drawImage API is really poorly documented and has a confusing way of handling arguments. Because of this sometimes if you capture a screenshot from your webcam the capture / snapshot will be drawn...

Object measurement with webcam 30 Jun 2013 | 07:40 pm

Shut up and show me the demo. I have been experimenting with using a webcam to measure an objects size, width and height. It works by comparing the size of a user defined box to the size of a magnet...

My first Cordova App 7 Jun 2013 | 12:46 am

Well it’s been an interesting 30 or so days. Among other things I have been attempting to build a mobile app with Apache Cordova, an open source tool for writing HTML/JS/CSS and deploying to most popu...

Your system does not meet the requirements to create android projects: undefined 4 Jun 2013 | 12:56 am

Cordova platform add android errors with Did you remember to You can check with.. You should see your username, not root.. If so.. Let’s do a quick update of Cordova: Let’s make sure android works and...

Monitoring a Wind Turbine with a Raspberry Pi 23 May 2013 | 03:15 pm

As a weekend project I wanted to receive an email if my wind turbine wasn’t generating power when it should. I didn’t want to spend loads of money on fancy new equipment so I hacked it together mostly...

The conection to the server was unsuccessful 22 May 2013 | 01:16 am

The application Error Was caused by a script being inaccessible during the page load.. For me changing: To Fixed it

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