Over a year ago I decided I wanted to build a small Quadcopter. I bought some Hexatronic 5 gram brushless DC motors (HXM1400-2000) and some 6A Turnigy speed controllers. I designed a lightweight aluminium frame on CAD and did some research on how to stabilise it and control the four motors. I came across an …
Author Archives: Martin
Raspberry Pi – it’s here!
My Raspberry Pi arrived a few days ago but I’ve been too busy with work to play with it until last night when I did make time to boot it with the default Debian image. All worked perfectly and I’m impressed with the little pi 😎 I fancy trying RaspBMC on it next…
Restore a Windows7 Master Boot Record
A friend of mine recently asked me to install Linux on her laptop which I was happy to do. I installed Xubuntu alongside Windows7 as dual boot. After a few days of use, she complained that the Ordnance Survey “Getamap” webpage would not work. When I investigated, I found out that the website requires Silverlight …
Searching for a Linux Twitter client
I am definitely not a Twitter Power User however I do like following tweets from a small number of interesting people. On Windows, I spent some time finding a Twitter client that I liked using and eventually came across Digsby which suited me. Unfortunately Digsby was aquired by a rival in the recent past and …
Customising Xubuntu and Migrating XP
Having settled on using Xubuntu, the next task was to customise it to my liking and see if I could migrate my old XP installation into VirtualBox so that I could continue to use Windows specific software that I need. I installed Opera and transfered across my sessions, bookmarks and wand data. This was straight …
A new laptop and a move to Linux
A new laptop I’ve been using Windows XP Professional since about 2003, originally on a laptop with 512MB RAM and for the last few years on a laptop with 1GB RAM; recently upgraded to 2GB. I have been reasonably happy with it to be fair and especially happy when Vista came along and I saw …
Aluminium Cylinder Puzzle
Recently, while I was searching for some info about hack saws on the internet, I stumbled across a website by a chap called Chris Raynerd. Â I was interested in many of the posts on Chris’s website but my attention was initially grabbed by his Aluminium Cylinder Puzzle. Â Apparently the puzzle was designed by William Strijbos. …
A new start with WordPress
I’ve had a weblog since the mid nineties (althought it wasn’t called that then) when the internet was in it’s infancy and for the majority of that time is has been a static website with a fixed set of pages that I edited manually in Notepad. My first foray into content management systems was with …