I’ve mostly completed the “brain” for my air horn piano! The hardware consists of a 12v fuse box, 12v USB sockets, Raspberry Pi, adjustable 12v to 5v step-down regulator, and 16-channel 5v relay board. If you are reading and considering…
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My project, working title “Air Horn Piano” is something I’ve pondered on and vaguely planned for many, many years now. I’ve recently come across a 3D printable train horn design which can be easily tuned by adjusting the length of…
Continue ReadingBartholomew’s Plan of London – 1921
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve been georeferencing some old maps given to me by friends of mine. This map shows Bartholomew’s Plan of London. It doesn’t have a formal copyright on it, but if I’ve understood the text in…
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I’m known by friends in my home town as something of a mapping and cartography. A couple of friends of mine have been kind enough to share maps with me which they’ve inherited, dating all the way back to the…
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I’ve written a basic scale chart for stringed instruments using React, which you can see here. I’ve written scale charts using various languages many, many times now and can honestly say that leaving a few build pipeline mishaps aside, the…
Continue ReadingDOMDocument 2.0.0 release
I’ve released a new major version of my DOMDocument library which includes many, many enhancements. Please see the documentation, see the commits for changes, or check out the publication. This new version pre-empts further improvements to PHP regarding implementing the…
Continue ReadingYellow Sub Creative
It is with great pleasure that I can share that I am now officially a Senior Developer on the Yellow Sub Creative team! I have been and will be doing a great deal of work with 3D graphics and animation,…
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I’m working on a project at the moment which may potentially involve rendering video in a THREE.js environment. The banner for this site has needed upgrades for some time, the CSS animation didn’t really do it justice, so over the…
Continue ReadingPorting Perlin Turbulence
As part of a project I’m working on right now, I’ve been looking at this set of SVG effects for HTML elements. For the purposes of this particular project, it’s desirable to re-create this effect in THREE.js using post-processing fragment…
Continue ReadingWP Google Maps 8.1 released!
I left the WP Google Maps team last summer after almost four years with the team, having completing a full JavaScript refactor, which I am very pleased to see released recently. You can read more about my contributions to the…
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