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Low-cost XPlane Control Panel
This is a little project that I’ve been working on over the last month or so. (I completed it several weeks back, but I’ve been having too much fun with it to write up this blog post) It is a physical...
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MudPi
About 10 years ago, I wrote Alternate Universe MUD, a free text-based online adventure game, with a space-theme and an emphasis on exploration and discovery. Note: for younger/less geeky readers, a MUD...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi – AnswerBox
I’ve been playing with a Raspberry Pi, Logitech USB mic, USB-powered speakers and a USB SDR TV tuner stick, combined with Stephen Hickson’s fantastic voicecommand system. (The Pi is the...
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More Aircraft Traces
Here are two more traces, generated from a whole day’s worth of data (29th June 2013). I’ve added some more ground locations as well as the places which the ‘stacks’ are named after (BOVINGDON,...
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Panshanger scenery for X-Plane
This is my first attempt at a scenery package for the X-Plane flight simulator, using only Sketchup, GIMP and WED (plus the library objects that come with X-Plane and OpenSceneryX). It covers my local...
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Further XPDisplay improvements
XPDisplay now has a ‘Data’ tab, which (currently) displays charts with approach glideslope and landing gear forces, for post-landing analysis: Glideslope - showing a late approach and landing! Landing...
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With Jupiter in Mind
I’d hoped to invite a couple of friends round for some stargazing, but it clouded up shortly after I’d set up the telescope. I managed to get this shot of Jupiter with my smartphone held up to a new...
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SpaceEngine
Inspired by a really good book I’ve just read and this list of potential currently habitable exoplanets, I spent a little time playing with SpaceEngine last night, visiting as many of them as I could....
View ArticleGitBlit on the Raspberry Pi
I’ve used GitHub, BitBucket and Unfuddle for hosted Git repositories – and they’re good at what they do – but until recently hadn’t found a good solution for a locally hosted Git repository server. I...
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Project X: British Man Builds Secret Toy Spaceship in Garage
Update: This has been picked up on Twitter by the folks at @Raspberry_Pi and Jeff Highsmith (@BabyWrassler). Wow! Feel free to ask me any questions via @djauncey. It turns out that there is a woeful...
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