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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman.
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Making it Real!
I was an early converter to e-readers with a kindle keyboard in 2010. Living in Smallville, NZ and having to pay $30+ for the latest sci-fi books (if/when the shop had them) it was a no-brainer to me and I … Continue reading
Why you should write for yourself.
Genres are a weird thing. Think of them like a Venn diagram, a bunch of circles some of which may overlap, others that don’t. Genres are important because as a writer they define who will and who will not be … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing, Uncategorized
Tagged a level of consciousness, amazon, kindle, self-publishing, the algorithm, the summer of reasoning, writing
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The future of Publishing (and why it sucks!)
Although I am not actually a believer that the current LLM ‘s will lead to sentient AI systems, their improvements and their inevitable mixing with, and amplification by, other technologies is likely to bring us pretty close in the few … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, publishing
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Industrial Display
Recently required some large character displays for displaying of a 4,5 and 6 digit number behind a customised dashboard prominently displayed in several locations in the factory, the digit must be readable from very far away and needed to be … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized
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Dumbo’s Feather
Disney Lawyers Please Look Away! This title pretty well sums up my job description as a contractor at the Indevin winery for the last 12 years. Yes there were long nights, moments of rapid development, followed by the long tail … Continue reading
Posted in Efficiency, Indevin, Management, MRP, New Zealand, NZ, Process Automation, Project Management, Uncategorized
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New Office and Workshop
Well I Finally completed the move of the electronics lab and workshop in to the new custom built work shop adjacent to the house. The new workshop is 144sqM so about 10 times the size of the old room I … Continue reading
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Spocks Brain
There was an episode in the very first star trek series called “Spocks Brain” in which aliens use a machine to boost their intellegence and transplant out Spocks Brain into a computer. In the episode the skill to do this … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Funny, Uncategorized
Tagged lifestyle, random
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USB Real-Time Clock for Raspberry Pi, etc
Unlike a PC the Raspberry Pi does not come with any sort real time clock. Usually this is not a problem as it is connected to the Internet and a simple poll of one of the many clock sources will … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized
Tagged CDC, DS1307, PIC16F455, Raspberry Pi, RTC, USB
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Re-Envisioning Mobile Communications
What follows is an un-researched flight of fancy I’m totally over smartphones! I went back to a dumb phone 12 months ago and my old smartphone is now just used as the remote control for Netflix, Viber calls (see below) … Continue reading
Posted in IT Failures, Mobile Terminal, Speculation, The Future, Uncategorized
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Uploading file data as a C Header
Quick and simple post. If you have a micro-controller and need to use some data from a file (say a static HTML web page or a bitmap) and you don’t have a file system then you need to convert the … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Pascal Programming, Uncategorized
Tagged C Header, Lazarus
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PT100 Control Board for Raspberry Pi. Completed!
I have recently completed this project. It has the same specification as the previous post however a few improvements have been made in light of new information. The board is intended to accurately control the temperatures of 4 wine tanks … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized, Vinwizard
Tagged PIC 16F1782, PT100, Raspberry Pi
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Raspberry Pi PT100 temperature sensor and control board
I am currently working on a small Project for David at Wine Technologies (vinwizard.us) to replace an older proprietary temperature control PLC. David decided he would like to use a Raspberry Pi due to the fact it is very powerful, … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, Uncategorized, Vinwizard
Tagged 16F1782, AN687, EasyEDA, PT100
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Serial Port combiner for RFID station
I have a project where the HMI (Human-Machine Interface – ie the touch screen PC) is situated 20M from the station. Normally I would move the screen but this time it was not possible. The station has a printer and … Continue reading
