Blinking LEDs!
I was at POINT in Fishguard working alongside Span Arts. I had a collection of Raspberry Pi computers and I was teaching the young people how to program. I thought that the work that I had prepared for them would be quite challenging but they sailed through it. They learned about variables and commands and how…
Maenclochog Pop-up Museum
The hall at Maenclochog has been hosting a ‘Picture the Past’ event where members of the community have contributed to a pictorial exhibition of times past from the local area. There were family photographs, farming images and pictures of buildings both old and new. As part of the DATRIS project, I was working with young…
Bats at PLANED
The British Trust for Ornithology is running a “citizen science” project where people can borrow equipment to detect and record the bats flitting around your house overnight. I went to the Natural Resources Wales office in Haverfordwest to pick up the equipment, I brought it back to the PLANED offices and set it up. A week…
Digital Mapping at Garn Fawr
I was working with pupils from Ysgol Gymunedol Wdig as part of one of Span Arts‘ Digidol projects. Today we were collecting pictures, poems, and photographs of Garn Fawr to add to a digital map. This extraordinary map is being developed by Alan Wills of Moylegrove and will be available to view soon. The young…
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…
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…
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…
SCL’s Internet-enabled Door
I attended an event run by the Cardigan company, SCL Internet, at Canolfan Hermon on Tuesday 30th October to see them promoting their new system for controlling doors remotely over the internet. Hermon is a very busy hall which is in constant use by a range of local groups and individuals. The ability to…
Getting the levels right
I have just started to use the RØDELink wireless microphone when making short clips. The link seems to work really well however, I was disappointed with the sound quality on the recent Remakery post. I had another look at the transmitter unit and I noticed this slider switch in the battery compartment. It had been…
