This site is a collection of attempted writings about my interests, some of which intersect with my day job and others are just pure learning pursuits.
Blog
I am maintaining a rather sparse blog right here which has my non-project related items and general ramblings.
Projects
Most of my are projects currently electronics based, with the Open Source Arduino prototyping platform at the heart of them. If you like, take a look at the projects I play with in my, somewhat limited, spare time.
An Arduino Pro Mini 5v - currently the beast I base many a project on.
Cloud detection
I have always taken an interest in clouds, whether observing, photographing or just reading about them. This project looks at measuring the amount of cloud cover over a hypothetical astronomical observation site. Please go here for my series on cloud detection.
Soil Temperature
This series has been prompted by some previous work to send general weather data from a personal weather station to the UK's Met Office. It follows a project to measure soil temperature at different depths in the ground. Click here for further information on this work.
Weather Report
Both the above projects' data output are summarised on a separate Github Pages hosted site called Weather Report.
Software
I still work in software, and enjoy writing the occasional piece about it.
About Me
First and foremost and inhabitant of a quiet corner but a stone's throw from the largely undiscovered Lincolnshire Wolds, an area of outstanding natural beauty.
After years spent as a software dev, I'm now fully recovered, and have turned my hand to being a certified test/QA engineer.
When there is free time from the family, the Open University and work, I like to indulge in running, getting my fingers burnt with electronics, taking part in amateur astronomy or observing the weather.
I also love getting high, so to speak. Walking on Goat Fell in Arran, if you wondered.