Nice sunny day for a ride out to Franks Tank in Rempstone Forest, used to be fully surrounded by trees but now open heathland #mountainbike #dorset #purbeck

The battery is protected by the fairing and the bars sticking out each side stop it falling over completely

Radio Control Bike Project with Bespoke Carbon Frame Designing a custom 1/5 scale radio-controlled electric motorbike using a carbon fibre chassis and adjustable pivot suspension unit

Wait until you discover RC motorbikes, that gets expensive www.briandorey.com/post/rc-bike...

Says "Delivery by Evri" - pray to everything that it will arrive and not be lost or smashed up?

Robin on an apple tree

Working on the allotment today and had a friendly robin watching me and coming down to eat the bugs and worms from the soil #allotment #growyourown #ukwildlife

Enabling I2C on the Raspberry Pi

New to I2C on the Raspberry Pi? This step-by-step guide covers enabling I2C, installing tools and Python libraries, setting bus speed, and finding device addresses. www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/1...

Italian Greyhound at dog park

First visit of the year to the Purbeck Dog Park to give Norman our rescued Italian Greyhound a run without seeing any other dogs as he is very reactive to them. Nice sunshine and he went on the different wooden ramps in the adventure zone field.

Sometimes when riding on the smart trainer in Rouvy you get to go fast enough to go back in time #rouvy

Testing on Single board computers for Raspberry Pi hats

Compatibility testing with different Single-Board Computers (SBC) and our Raspberry Pi expansion boards which allow you to add IO, Analogue input and output, serial, rs485 and more.
Spring sale with up to 20% off at www.abelectronics.co.uk/ #raspberrypi #sbc

Wet start to the weekend so on #rouvy for a couple of virtual rides this morning, tried a local one to me riders.rouvy.com/route/250963 between Bridport to Abbotsbury on the Dorset coast

Sinclair ZX81 Kit Build from the 1980s with 1k memory We purchased a boxed and unopened Sinclair ZX81 Kit from eBay and decided to build it and see if it still worked after being in a box for over 30 years

I found a kit version on eBay and built it, it worked after being boxed for years www.briandorey.com/post/sinclai...

ADC Differential Pi with NTC Thermistors on Raspberry Pi

Tutorial Thursday - ADC Differential Pi with NTC Thermistors on Raspberry Pi
This tutorial will use the ADC Differential Pi with a Semitec103AT-11 NTC Thermistors to make a digital thermometer
www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/2...
#tech #technews #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics

Another wet weekend so "out" for a nice sunny ride on #rouvy on the bike trainer this morning

Updated the iphone today and it asks for your credit card for #ageverification to confirm you are over 18. As I've used apple products since the iphone 3 which came out in 2008, I would have thought they know I have been over 18 for a long time :(

After a winter riding indoors on Rouvy, its nice to dust off the outdoor bike and take it out for our local loop around the Isle of Purbeck and try to avoid the potholes in the badly damaged roads.

From Windows 95 to macOS: Three Decades Later, Developer Changes After using Windows as my primary computer operating system for over 30 years, I am finally switching to Apple Mac as my daily driver computer

Ive used Windows since the Win 95 days, decided its time to switch to Mac, here is how its going www.briandorey.com/post/switchi...

IO Pi Plus - MQTT Reading the Ports

Tutorial Tuesday - IO Pi Plus - MQTT Reading the Ports

Reading the GPIO pins on the IO Pi Plus using MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport

www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/1...

#tech #technology #technews #software #raspberrypi #arduino #electronics

PCB holder

We built an adjustable 3D printed PCB assembly jig to hold circuit boards when soldering, new post and build files are on the blog www.briandorey.com/post/adjusta...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Swanage High Street

Throwback Thursday: Swanage lower High Street in the late 1800s.

www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/gallery/2285...
See the full photo and more historic photos at Virtual Swanage #swanage #historic #photo

Aurora borealis visible tonight over the Purbeck hills from Swanage, south coast of the UK #northernights #swanage #aurora #auroraborealis

That horrible feeling when a Linux script crashes and breaks the networking and internet access for the house :(

That sinking feeling when you get an email with this in the top #evri

Been sorting out files and photos and found pic of my Orange UFO bike from the 90s, it was a limited to a run of 500 frames and cost over 2K back. Was my first full suspension mountain bike and I rode thousands of miles on it. Pace forks, XTR shifters and mechs, XT chainset and Hope wheels

Might be able to find a local plumber who can sell you the length you need?

Flomasta MDPE Pipe Blue 25mm x 50m - Screwfix Order online at Screwfix.com. Corrosion-resistant 25mm MDPE pipe coil. Lead-free, designed for below ground and potable water applications. Suitable for drinking water in both hard and soft water area...

Get some blue plastic water pipe and run the cable inside it. Ive used www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-m... for cable runs in the past underground and outdoors. Just get some thin string and a bit of cloth tied on the string and use the hoover to suck it though then pull the cable with the string

Cuttlefish

Intact cuttlefish washed up on the beach at Ocean Bay this afternoon in Swanage, very unusual to find a full cuttlefish on the beach as there are normally loads of the cuttlebones from them at the high tide mark. #nature #cuttlefish #swanage

Page speed insights

Spent a few days working on further optimisation on my project blog at www.briandorey.com/ Reduced the CSS by over 50% and page speeds are now much faster

It seems that Evri must be the default on ebay now, the past few purchases have been "delivered" by them

Yet another piece of vintage technology ruined by #evri with a pocket tv arriving smashed and cannot be repaired :( time to stop buying from anyone who ships using evri #evrifail