Unfortunately my family and I live in a country that doesn’t have the greatest air quality. In order to see how bad it really is I have decided to pull out the Raspberry Pi yet again. Once attached to a Particle Matter sensor I’ll have my own basic Air Quality/Weather station. This somewhat flows on […]
Migrating email to google apps
After months of servicing an email account which kept requiring me to delete emails to free up space I finally decided to make the switch to Google Apps and take advantage of GMail and apps for businesses. The setup process of Google Apps was very straight forward however the process of migrating email from one account to […]
Raspberry Pi and Motion (Weather App Pt 2) (Revised)
Having written the original Raspberry Pi and Motion (Weather App Pt 2) and promptly put it on the back burner (read: got lazy and didn’t finish it) I’ve come back to finish it off. Firstly, I’m going to can the webcam in favour of the Raspberry Pi Camera Module. This is mainly due to the fact that a […]
Raspberry Pi Temperature Sensing Pt 1
This tutorial is going to teach you how to set up a Raspberry Pi Temperature sensor using GPIO pins and Occidentalis. So like many others before me I decided to pick up a Raspberry Pi to see what all the fuss is about. Now for those stuck under a rock or if you genuinely don’t […]
If you accept email, Use it!
One of the many things that bothers me in this day and age is the amount of businesses/services/individuals who accept email as a form of contact yet completely ignore or delay using it. 9 times out of 10 any website that you visit will have a contact section in some shape or form that will […]
Windows 8.1 and Corrupt nVidia Graphics Drivers
Yesterday I suffered the dreaded ‘Monitor display blank screen issue after driver update‘ on my Windows 8.1 PC (in the middle of my work day to add insult to injury). I’m not sure when my PC decided to do Windows updates and install new drivers but all of a sudden my PC rebooted itself and after […]
Companies who release iOS apps before Android are frustrating
This is one problem that has just started affecting me recently. I’m starting to find that a lot of companies these days when releasing Mobile Apps are coming out with their iOS version weeks sometimes months before their Android version. Case in point. The recent success of Grand Theft Auto V is known to all, […]
Reading a websites contents using PHP and XPath
Following on from my previous post Scraping data with PHP and cURL today I’m going to show you about reading a websites contents using PHP and XPath. One of the biggest problems I have faced when dealing with a scraped web page (read: block of HTML) is how to go about getting specific text elements out of it. Several years […]
Automatically post to a Page using PHP Facebook SDK
During my weekends/time off I tend to watch quite a lot of sport, with the English Premier League (EPL) being one of my favourite things to support. As such, I created and run an EPL facebook page dedicated to covering fixtures, results, and other news. Now this all good fun and I enjoy doing it, but week after […]
Build a quadcopter (Part 3) – Preparing the quadcopter
Preparing the Quadcopter Welcome back to this third installment on how to build a quadcopter. If you haven’t already check out part 1 (the parts) and part 2 (the build) to get up to speed and then read on to start preparing the quadcopter for it’s first flight. KK2.0 Motor Layout The first thing we want to do is […]