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My Peace Lily has flowered and is scattering pollen everywhere.

A Cyanotype is an early photographic method which yields a characteristic Prussian Blue image.

I wasn't going to post another of these attempts as I'd hoped to be actually doing something with it now, but as it turned out, the red owl was a failure.

I've been wanting one of these for a while for some other projects I have planned.

I quite enjoyed Chemistry in Secondary School: I think I even did a CSYS course in it.

I decided I wanted to try making some skeletonised leaves.

Check this out!

This is a slightly older project, but since I'm waiting for the new knitting machine design to print, I thought I'd write it up.

I tried the resin again, this time using the vacuum chamber.

My Vacuum pump and chamber arrived!

I wanted to try something different so I thought I'd give Epoxy Resin casting a go.

I decided it was time to try out the prototype design!

I spent some time this evening turning the sketch into a proper Fusion360 3D model, as above.

I've been busy in Fusion 360 this morning.

The actual project I wanted to do was attach my Nikon D90 SLR to my Lomo Biolam microscope.

"In Soviet Russia, Microscopes".. er wait.

I had a look into how the needle is controlled by the carriage in this video (I've removed a few needles to help with the video).

I've been interested in building a knitting machine for some time, and I've just got round to looking into it again.

This is inspired by the "Prusa i3" range of 3D Printers.

A whole load of new project stuff arrived earlier today: - Steering Boot Set Bellow 38921.

I've been doing a lot of interesting projects recently, so I decided to restart my blog.

Great!

I've been doing a spot of iOS and android development for some sample apps today, which I've not done for a while.

I redesigned the schema for one of our MongoDb clusters today.

Ran into a gotcha with PHP+MongoDb the other day.

Now that Intel have a slightly less crap driver for the Poulsbo/GMA500 chipset, with the more recent EMGD driver, I've converted one of my O2 Jogglers to be a touchscreen media player in the kitchen

A 15 minute walk in the winds currently battering Edinburgh.

While I'm at it, Check\fus Downloader is a windows app, which can download and decrypt official Samsung firmware updates directly from Samsung's servers.

I've been happily using my Galaxy S II for the last few months, and of course I've replaced the original firmware with a custom one.

Meet my favourite new backup tool: Duplicity.

I've been following this project for a while; I've even contributed some reverse engineering work to it.

Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a set on Flickr.

Beltane Pillars Panorama, a photo by adq\uk on Flickr.

Beltane 2011, a set on Flickr.

London Trip, a set on Flickr.

Loch") Ullapool Trip, a set on Flickr.

CARGO @ The Edinburgh Mela 2010, a set on Flickr.

Gormleys, a set on Flickr.

Hi, a number of people have reported problems with my kindle devkeys 0.2 and the 3.1 firmware.

Cool, looks like there's now a Kindle 3.1 jailbreak!

Just got an email from Amazon saying if I turn my Kindle on and leave it connected to WIFI for a few minutes it'll automatically download and install the latest firmware update.

I've been doing some playing about with the recent kindle 3.1 firmware release.

I've finally got round to implementing this in pypickit.

It is obvious that more than one person will want to write homebrew for the Kindle.

Originally I had been trying to get Snow Leopard to work in qemu-kvm, and it kind of does; I had even thought of contributing to that project to make it work even better (e.g. the e1000 emulation does…

My wife bought a new phone the other day, an HTC Desire HD, which means she now has a better phone than I do, grrr!

I posted about this a while back, and submitted a patch to the racoon developers list.

Hi, just posted an updated high res pic of the liveview PCB front: The illegible chip at the bottom middle has "E3030 Z312E" on it

Did a spot of redbus development this evening, one politeness fix, one bugfix and one really annoying thing. - Politeness: silence the stop data update alarm.

See here.