Benjamin (my son) and I went out on the local river (the Wey) with our kayaks today - and even though it rained we had a very good time, and met a surprising lot of people

- in Narrowboats

- In rowing boats

- Walking along the towpath

- Cycling along the towpath

It's great the see all this activity, even though we had a bit of rain while we were out.

Sorry about the lack of pictures, forgot to bring the waterproof camera.

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My first real Arduino application was written today - and unfortunately I will not be able to write it all up tonight.

But - it is a simple application that reads values from a thermistor and a light sensor, tries to convert the thermistor value to a reasonable approximation of a real temperature, and then displays it all on a LCD shield.

It's still very rough - but I will refine it somewhat before I publish it on the blog.

Exiting!

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What a cool project - it's made by putting a Arduino and a zigbee module together, and every time one of these finds another similar module nearby, the 2 devices checks who's the "strongest" and a message is passed from the strongest to the weakest, in a parasitic mode.

The message is displayed on a small LED matrix.

I can see this working on a conference!
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IMHO the research company misses out on one serious reason for consumers not buying Bluray players - the mindnumbingly stupid copy protection system, which to be honest makes it easier to just rent movies online.....

We have for years used a 200 slot DVD player - but I am unable to find anything similar for the new hi-def formats, so I will stick with a decent upsampling technology, and using a computer (in my case a Mac Mini) as a DVR (in addition to the Sky HD PVR we also have.
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