Railways
Somehow in a blog mostly covering programming, here’s my most nerdy recent escapade - railway modelling.
Model Railway
Underfloor Heating Thermostat
About
A RasPi home thermostat script for controlling slow underfloor heating. More details and source code available at https://github.com/delomelas/py-ufh-therm
FrameSpan - Extension building
FrameSpan update 4 - the latest on my Android app for creating a stabilised video from a sequence of still images taken of the same thing over a long period of time.
What’s new
My neighbours re-built their extension. I took a picture of it every morning to generate this:
FrameSpan - Image alignment
FrameSpan update 3 - a simple Android app I’ve been developing to produce stabilised videos from a sequence of individual photos.
FrameSpan - Quack!
What’s new
FrameSpan update 2 - an Android app to help produce stabilised videos from a sequence of still pictures taken of the same thing over a long period of time.
Early preview of output from FrameSpan! I’ve been taking the garden picture every day for about a month now…
Framespan
What
I’ve somehow been working on this for three years or so, but I’m not sure where to take it next.
It’s a tool to create stop-motion/time-lapse videos, intended for use over a long period of time. Think, maybe, recording the growth of a tree, watching a building site construction, or tracking the changing seasons.
Tactikon - A Retrospective
What
A brief stint playing an old strategy game when I was very young left me with a long-standing desire to make something similar. After a few false starts, it was the release of the Android platform that finally got me on the way to creating my vision of a simple-yet-deep multiplayer strategy game.
Chartimo
What
With a bit of free time between jobs in 2019, I set about making a new Android app in a month or two. Mostly to get back into a bit of software development after a long time off, and dip my toe into the latest Java and Android dev techniques.
The result was Chartimo - a super-simple app which produced charts based on numbers you enter. I’m using it to track my weight, I’m sure there are a million other uses.
Lightbikes - A History
What
I’ve written two broadly similar games called Lightbikes. They’re both pretty old now, so this is a piece of history.