The Weather in Hill Mountain
The first of our outlying weather stations has just gone live. This is based with the 1st Johnston Scout Group in Hill Mountain where they are using their station to study the weather which should lead to badge … or an interesting conversation at the very least! Having one weather station is intriguing but when…
Fishguard Community Awards 2018
Last night at the Fishguard Community Awards for 2018 were held at the Fishguard Bay Hotel just above Goodwick. The DigiChamps at POINT were nominated along with a number of other amazing community groups. DigiChamps runs twice a month and has support from the DATRIS project. In the photo you can see myself (DATRIS Coordinator)…
The New Hall in Brynberian
Brynberian are renovating their community hall … which was, at one time, the village school. It’s looking very nice and should be a real asset to the community. This has been another opportunity for the PLANED drone to take to the skies. The short clip shown here shows the work well under way. We intend…
St Florence Church Tower
At the end of April PLANED gained its first Permission for Commercial Operations (PfCO) from the Civil Aviation Authority. This means that we can now add a new dimension to our work with communities by offering the use of a drone to record and celebrate the things that make those places special. One of the first…
The InkyPHAT from Pimeroni
The plan is to distribute weather stations about Pembrokeshire to community buildings that have internet access. Once this is set up I would like to create a weather map of the county that is constatntly updated. Pembrokeshire has such a varied terrain that, at any one time, the weather can be completely different on the…
Big Flock at Newgale
It was a blustery Thursday afternoon on Newgale Beach and Ruth Jones, supported by Span Arts, had organised a dance event called Big Flock in collaboration with Holy Hiatus and Joon Dance. To be fair, the weather wasn’t as kind as previous years but still there was an enthusiastic group of dancers taking part. We really…
Diolch yn Fawr Brynberian
It was a damp morning in the Preselis but that didn’t stop the people of Brynberian coming out to talk about potential digital projects in and around the village. It was great to see such a good turnout with people of all ages attending. There was a lot of interest in film making and in…
Robot Showdown in Hill Mountain
The second outing of the DATRIS / Hill Mountain Lego robots, on Saturday 6th April, ended in aggressive confrontation! But only from the point of view of the robots (phew!) everyone else enjoyed the chance to work with Lego, use a computer and participate in creating a movie. Both adults and youngsters managed to keep…
Digital Discussions in Maenclochog
This Saturday I was at Maenclochog Community Hall to meet with local people and talk about IT projects. The aim of the day was to prompt a discussion so that members of the Maenclochog community could suggest ideas for digital projects that would be run in and around the Community Hall. The event was very successful,…
We’re ready for you Gareth
Finally, after a lot of work, the weather station is up and running and updating the website, just as Storm Gareth arrives. I have an old Oregon Scientific WMR88 which has been runnning in my back garden for a number of years now. The weather station hardware was really quite cheap and it has a…
