Author: John

Marshmellows

https://twitter.com/jjedmondson/status/794641593114435585 #Marshmallow did some in fire but a blowtorch is more even. Directions – Put marshmallow onto a stick. Light blowtorch. Gently rotate until even. Blow out bits on fire. Eat

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Mamod twin cylinder SE3 steam to electricity

At Cubs we are doing the scientist badge as an extra show and tell I brought along my dads Mamod S.E.3 Steam Engine and hooked a 9v motor to the buffing wheel via an elastic band.   It managed to make the led light up and impress the cubs. Before I use it again i need to […]

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Brickett speedtest monitor

Well we have been having some problems with our isp’s speed dropping out so I thought I could use the pi to test every hour and make a log. the Folks over at makezine  have made a nice how to so I did not have to figure anything out. Message my twitter account for graphs until i get them […]

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Bricklett Programs

I use the following projects. More to come later. An edited morse code  from https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/robot/morse_code/ that flashes an led , beeps a buzzer. Ccrisan motioneye https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Install-On-Raspbian The Joe Editor http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/ xscreensavers GLtext to show the date – Though I do want to make a dashboard with other stuff installed.

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Bricklett

Attached photos are of my raspberry pi Tablet project #bricklett. Makibes 7inch_HDMI_LCD_(C) £37.99 Raspberry pi 2b £25.99 + power cable and sd card. Ravpower battery bank £22.99 Attached speaker is a kitsound pocketboom £12.48 Twisted Veins HDMI  £5.43 Pi Cobbler £5.95 Raspberry pi camera  £19.04 Camera cable. £3.99 Laser Cutting + Plastic by http://www.avicraft.co.uk/ Thanks Rob. Total cost – £107.92 + Edimax wifi £7.01 Amazon Wishlist […]

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Time till.

So in my chef job we have to label everything we prep so i dont have to get my calendar out on my phone and count the required number of days i used php to do it automatically. https://john.edmondson-uk.com/time/ you can view the results here the code is after the contune reading tag – im […]

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Bricklett Morse generator.

So my cubs last night did a James Bond themed evening with various code breaking opportunities. Useing My raspberry pi tablet i used https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ Morse code program to flash an led. Some work after cubs made the following program that beeps a buzzer and writes out the dash and dots on the screen.

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