Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Pi Camera

Ref: https://pythonprogramming.net/camera-module-raspberry-pi-tutorials/?completed=/terminal-navigation-raspberry-pi-tutorials/

raspbi-config
 install python picamera

camera.py
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#To record video or stills using pi camera

import picamera
import time

camera =  picamera.PiCamera()

#To invert image
camera.vflip = True

#To record  stills
camera.capture('example.jpg')

#To record vide0
#camera.start_recording('examplevid.h264')
#time.sleep(5)
#camera.stop_recording

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Railton Pub

Owner Robbie is a lovely bloke. He has camping out back and a 5 dollar for 5 minute hot shower. Beautiful old building.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Forth

Incredibly fast flowing river full of snags. If you fell in it would be curtains.


Sunday, December 8, 2019

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Yolla Tavern

Beautiful Old Building.

Ulverstone River Oysters





The boat ramp has quite a tide and at ebb the flats expose tiny oysters. When the sun is shining the water sparks.



These chaps sat with the motor in the drink and spinning away under the starter for minutes. Never fired once.  "She hasn't been started in a long time". I went back half an hour later, the trailer was parked and the boat nowhere to be seen.





Monday, October 28, 2019

Cooee Point






About 3 ks from the CBD. Penguins squall adorably most of the night and shearwaters perch on the beautiful sedimentary shore.



Saturday, September 28, 2019

Huế


I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me but the decks on barge closest, is actually underwater.

This hilltop overlooks the Perfume River. The birds were singing and the butterflies were flitting between the trees. Such tranquility, it is hard to credit the brutal history of the place. If it were me with a Kalashnikov or an M - 16 i would have just put it down and had a snooze. What was the point of it all?

Before I met with Old Mate and his family I wanted to go on a bit of a tour of Vietnam to get used to the vibe. I chose a trip with G Adventures who were just amazing. The tour guide was top notch. I told him I was a Tour Guide myself and I would be asking a lot of questions so he deserved to know why.

At the end of the tour I absolutely blitzed his customer feedback form with ticks. I gave him a very generous tip. There was nothing i could suggest he could do to improve his performance. He took on incredible tasks. He would often let us all just wander off to do our own thing. I would be terrified to do that. He did it and monitored us all as individuals. He was an education. A totally class act.

A note on tipping. Supposedly tipping is not necessary in Vietnam. I beg to differ. It is polite to give money in a card as a gift to begin a interaction then do the same afterward to say "thank you". Never look at the money until you are alone. Never wait for the shopkeep to make change.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

The Most Hated Bird on the Planet

The masked lapwing (Vanellus miles), also known as the masked plover and often called the spur-winged plover or just plover.

At the outset I didn't consider pouring my venom on this particular individual, more the species as a whole, but now I am not so sure.








Sunday, September 15, 2019

X - Y Scanning CRT clock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKYBnWyJpmU

This project is very  cool bit I reckon it would be nicer as an Atari style X - Y rendered image.

A CRT is an inherently analogue device and the raster scan scheme was an inherently analogue technique based on two sawtooth waveform generators.

The 80s machine code methodology was very cool but required a certain special type of autism to author. I did a bit of PDPII machine code once. Rather than sperg right out I am wondering if simply deciding the X - Y fields into a single table and asining each of the characters in thier respective positions a set of consecutive coordinates corresponding to the vertices of the characters.

Back up the line what be required is to generate a sequence of ordered pairs.

Bandwidth might be an issue but that then becomes a hardware problem. The image programming could be done in a fairly human friendly workspace.

Two 10? Bit ADC for X Y and a Z drive hooked up to a standard electrostatic CRT would be the display. Big would be better but the downside is the higher drive voltages.

The number rose would be a static lookup table. The hands would be generated using a sin function who input is fed by a timer.

The whole project would be extremely cool but ultimately space and time consuming and would probably culminate in something rather over wrought and appallingly baroque and steam punk.

Likely the "fake and gayness" would out way the coolness because it would be plain how much work went into the stupid thing. Now if you could pick up a vintage Oscilloscope that would change the whole outlook. You would just need an Arduino and a cuppla ADCs . Plus you could use the Oscilloscope as and Oscilloscope. Now THAT would be cool!!

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Vale Mum

I was warned when I first took on ownership of a Mother™ that they were fraught with all sorts of issues. In constant need of maintenance, both of them and thier consequent infrastucture. In short there is so much to go wrong with them pity help the unfortunate owner of such an appliance.

Truth  be told I got relatively trouble free service from this unit for nigh on 60 years. Your mileage may vary however.

It all stopped happening for Mum  27 August 2019. I dont want to speculate on the medical side of things but am wanting some answers as to why or even if her drip was set up so as not to provide hydration. Non medical people in the grip of deep grief, beware of second guessing the professionals. That said nothing they could have done or not would make her any less dead now. Dieing will never be a pleasant experience - price you pay for the joy of living.

Love you so much Mum....

It was so much fun !!

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Böltonwagen Specs


CVM 9.0 Tonne
Tare ??? Find a Weighbridge. 

CGM 14.0 Tonne
Model : N - 1630
Chassis CMA 86H 00138
Date 1 1984.
International Harvester AKA Nissan UD Acco.

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

R/C Simulators.

Just as whacking a tennis ball isn't supposed to be tennis - it is well worthwhile as a short interlude for relaxation and to help wire up one's reflexes for more articulate brain / hand coordination.

# 1 Multiflight - good graphics and pleasant to operate. Windows.


#2 PicaSim - Medium Graphics and has a variety of senarios. Windows.


#3 CRRCSim - crude graphics and GUI. Quite pleasant to use. Linux.

All of them require a bit of fiddling to setup. This is part of the familiarization process and becomes less frustrating every time.