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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
This problem had me baffled for more than a few minutes: I wrote a leJOS PIDController loop for a LEGO NXT project that used one motor's rotation encoder as the input to control another motor's set point. It didn't work: the output from the PIDController's doPID(int) was reliably zero. My ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1508" align="alignright" width="293"] With the sides knotted up during the day[/caption]
I'm not keen on central heating but I don't like feeling cold in bed. The house we're currently renting never seems to get very warm: turning up the heating seems only to increase the bills and the 'musty old ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
I was surprised to see in an article at the BBC today that London has the worst air pollution in the EU. I remember working in the Square Mile in the mid 80s and having permanently black bogies and a sore throat which only abated when I went on holiday. ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Just a quickie - I spotted a recurring comment on the web, usually shortly after someone expressed upset at some past event (I think the recent examples were outrage that Mitt Romney lost the US presidential election and / or that Obama won). Readers were apparently convinced that sufficient time ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
What do you do when you can't communicate with a web-based organisation using their own 'Contact Us' method? It's frustrating, so I'm going to copy this here. I've just topped up my prepaid mobile phone using a debit card on Vodafone's website. I got a confirmation text saying
Thank you for ...
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