Thames path: complete!

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8 August 2018
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Finally, after several years of walking during summer weekends, I have completed the Thames Path National Trail!

Final section, Cricklade to the Source

Getting close to Thames Source

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15 July 2018
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The three walks so far this year:

Newbridge to Radcot

Radcot to Lechlade

Lechlade to Cricklade

have put me within striking distance of the Thames source.

Hopefully I can complete the remaining 12 miles in a single walk…

 

2018 walking season starts

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24 June 2018
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And we’re off – starting the 2018 walking season just as Royal Ascot comes to an end.

First up, the continuation of the Thames Path heading west from Newbridge to Radcot.

 

2017 walking season starts

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14 May 2017
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First canal/river walk of the 2017 season. Moderately long walk of around 9 miles on the Grand Union Canal. Walking from Stoke Bruerne to Nether Heyford.

Come fly with me!

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25 April 2017
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Two hours of serious fun, testing my knowledge of Airbus A320 systems in a full motion simulator

Full details, with pictures

Output from multiple DS18B20 to Cacti

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14 December 2015
by wpadmin in
If you need to read multiple (variable number) of sensors into Cacti, the following python script will read the sensors and format the output ready for Cacti. Be aware though that the sensor numbering is based on their serial numbers - the order will change if sensors with different serial numbers More >

Reading multiple DS18B20 sensors

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13 December 2015
by wpadmin in
Some people have been asking for some Python code that can read multiple temperature sensors. The following code will work for up to 10 sensors (maximum allowed under the kernel driver) #!/usr/bin/env python from os import path, listdir, system from time import sleep # Borrowing More >

Solving Cacti problems on the logger – full s/w install details & SD image

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16 October 2015
by wpadmin in

Some people have been having problems getting the Cacti graphs on the data logger to update correctly – they are missing graph lines and numerical outputs. I remember having similar issues when I was first messing around setting up the loggers. So to try to fix this, I went through a complete More >

Vulcan farewell tour : Eastbourne

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16 August 2015
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Managed to snap a few pictures of XH558 (and some other aircraft) at Eastbourne Airshow, 2015.

CLICK on any picture to enlarge it.

 

Raspberry Pi temperature (and humidity and pressure) logger – full instructions!

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3 December 2013
by wpadmin in

A while ago I reported on progress towards a Raspberry Pi based environmental logger.

Well, it has proved to be quite popular at work (several laboratories now use them to log temperature and humidity values for around £100 each device) so I wrote up pretty much all the instructions on how to build More >

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