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The Daily Peacehaven Timelapse Video
A couple of posts ago I wrote about the ‘WeatherPi’ Raspberry Pi that collects the latest weather readings every 10 minutes and make a...
Nick Lansley
Jan 12, 20193 min read
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Live weather data and images!
I wanted to take the peaceful few days between Christmas and New Year to really refresh the data collected from the local weather that...
Nick Lansley
Dec 30, 20181 min read
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MySql 8 and PHP mysqli_connect login failure – fixed on OSX
If you develop on a Mac as I do, you’ll want to get up to date with the latest versions of the software! So I installed a fresh new copy...
Nick Lansley
Aug 29, 20182 min read
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My failed A-Level results found me my vocation
1983: 35 years ago this morning I received my A-level results. I needed a ‘B, B, C’ in Maths, Physics and Electronic Systems respectively...
Nick Lansley
Aug 16, 20182 min read
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Decoding TV Teddy Part Four – The Search For Encoding That Works
If you’ve been following my articles on reverse-engineering the TV Teddy soundtrack embedded in the video picture, then you may have...
Nick Lansley
May 13, 20183 min read
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Decoding TV Teddy – Part Three: Encoding a new TV Teddy Video
In part two I successfully decoded the TV Teddy audio embedded in a TV Teddy video, and I’ve watched the sync’d playback with the...
Nick Lansley
Mar 24, 20188 min read
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Decoding TV Teddy – Part Two: Programming and Audio Output
As a purely fun and academic exercise, I’m going attempt to decode the TV Teddy audio track embedded in a TV Teddy video programme, and...
Nick Lansley
Mar 18, 20187 min read
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I’ve had published a new Alexa Skill (How-to walkthrough)
This article is long in order to provide a step-by-step guide to how I wrote my Alexa Skill. Never too old to learn, I wanted to...
Nick Lansley
Sep 10, 201711 min read
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Time to smash your e-commerce platform. Literally!
Why the future of e-commerce should be built using micro-services. Listen to the podcast episode here:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect...
Nick Lansley
Feb 27, 20172 min read
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Python code that suggests you are unlikely to win the Euromillions Lottery jackpot
(…or any other state, national or international lottery for that matter!) I know: the Europe-wide Euromillions Lottery pays tens of...
Nick Lansley
Oct 1, 20167 min read
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JavaScript? My web browser runs Python! And BASIC! and…
%CODEBRYTHONCLOCK% If you’re reading this in a modern web browser window you should see a clock at the top of this post. Nice clock!...
Nick Lansley
Sep 27, 20163 min read
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Transmitting an efficient AM Stereo radio signal – Part 3
Let’s have a look at the radio signal I transmitted in part 2 – you’ll recall I used the QT GUI Frequency Sink and QT GUI Waterfall Sink...
Nick Lansley
Aug 10, 20163 min read
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Test if your web browser is ‘truly random’
#canvas #javascript #random
Nick Lansley
Jul 8, 20161 min read
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Tesco Lab’s NextGen API now live!
I’m delighted to relay to you that the brand new Tesco Labs API is now live. This next-generation API use the latest cloud tech to give...
Nick Lansley
Apr 21, 20162 min read
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2016: The Year Of The Internet Of Things and MEAN stack
Happy New Year! Oh, this is going to be an interesting time ahead… I’ll be getting into some interesting projects and conference speeches...
Nick Lansley
Jan 2, 20161 min read
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The Joy of Async JavaScript
This weekend I wanted to ensure that lansley.com works well on all screens from standard web browsers to mobile and TV. After all I can...
Nick Lansley
Apr 4, 20153 min read
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Can’t Code? Don’t Code!
Student coding at a hackthon event (Flickr: Photo by @matylda on Twitter) The digital economy brings with it great opportunities for...
Nick Lansley
Mar 27, 20152 min read
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